Ingredients

If you make the meatpies 8inches in diameter, this ingredient should give about 10meatpies.

For the dough:

Plain Flour – 1 Kg

Baking Powder – 1 teaspoon

Butter/Margarine – 500g

4eggs

1 egg yolk

Salt – 2 pinches

Cold Water -125 ml

For the meat filling:

500g of minced meat

2 medium-sized Irish potatoes

2 medium-sized carrots

1 medium-sized onion

Seasonings

Cold water – 1 cup

Salt to taste

Two tablespoon of flour

Preparation of meat filling

Peel the Irish potatoes and scrape the carrots, wash and cut these two into tiny cubes. Also dice the onions.

Put the minced meat and the diced onions in a pot and place on medium heat.

Add 1 cup of water and the seasoning. Cover the pot and once the contents of the pot starts boiling, add the diced carrots and potatoes.

When the ingredients are well done, dissolve 2 tablespoons of plain flour in half cup of cold water and add to the meat pie filling. This is done so that the meat pie filling does not dry up during baking. It also keeps the meat pie filling moist.

Add salt to taste, stir the contents and turn heat to low till the water dries up. Set the meat pie aside.

Preparation of dough

Combine the flour,baking powder, butter, eggs, water and salt together.

Knead the dough.

Cover the dough and let it rest for 3 hours

Putting All Together:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Roll out some dough...it should not be too thick.

Cut the dough into a circle

For each 'circle', add a few teaspoons of the mixture in the middle of the circle, then fold the circle over, and use a fork to press the ends together.

Repeat the above steps until you are out of dough, or mixture.

Brush the exterior of all the meat pies with egg yolk.

Place the meat pies on a sheet with a little space inbetween each one, and bake until slightly brown

I didn't realise that one could use eggs in meat pie dough. can you post a picture of the mixed though.

How to make Nigerian meat pie at home:

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thank u very much 4 dis lecture, God bless u

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@OP: what brand of plain flour do you use?