How To Bake A Meat Pie

Ingredients:

• 300g of minced meat (ground beef)
• 1 medium-sized onion
•  1 little garlic/garlic powder(optionally available)
•  3 medium-sized carrots
•  2 medium-sized irish potatoes
•  1 cooking spoonful of vegetable oil
•  seasoning of choice (but preferably)- bouillon cubes(maggi / knorr cubes),a teaspoon of thyme, a teaspoon of curry
• 2 tablespoons of undeniable flour(to make a binder)
• cool water -- 200ml(greater or much less)
• salt -- to taste

Nigerian meat pie dough:

• 500 grams simple flour
•  250grams margarine
•  1 teaspoon baking powder (leveled)
•  34 teaspoon(a massive pinch) of salt
•  about 75 ml cool water (or as had to get a stiff dough)

 preparing ingredients for the nigerian meat pie :

• grind or mince the meat, in case you haven’t accomplished that yet.

• chop or mince the onions and set apart

• wash and scrape the carrots,peel the irish potatoes, rinse those veggies(carrot&potatoes)and cut into very tiny cubes.

Instructions for making nigerian meat pie:

Step 1 is to prepare the meat pie filling:
    warmth up the oil on medium warmth.Then add the chopped onions and garlic (garlic is non-obligatory), stir fry a bit; upload the minced meat to the pot and stir properly until the minced meat looses its purple color.

Now, add 1 cup of water to the pot, upload the stock cube,thyme and curry. Cowl the pot and go away to boil for about 10 minutes.

After 10 mins, add the diced potatoes,carrots,salt to flavor and go away to cook till the vegetables are completed.
   Then, dissolve 2 tablespoonful of the apparent flour in half of cup of cold water .
   Blend very well and upload the aggregate to the beef pie filling in the pot, stir well to get until nicely integrated, take away the warmth and depart to cool .


Ip: this flour mixture allows to bind the filling collectively and keep the moisture of the meat pie filling when baking. You could use cheese as an opportunity.

        

  Step 2  is to put together the dough

• ruin an egg, beat it and set aside for later use 
• grease the oven tray that you'll be using; do this by way of rubbing a little margarine inside the tray. 

This helps to save you the beef pies from  burning.You may additionally make use of baking sheets.

•   place the 500g of flour right into a large bowl; add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and a large pinch of salt.Blend nicely.

•  upload the margarine (you may soften the margarine, to make blending easier) and blend very well until the mixture looks extra like bread crumbs or sifted garri.

•  now, step by step upload a little water and keep on mixing till you get a stiff dough.

•  knead the dough until clean and depart  to relaxation for five minutes, then area on a lightly floured surface. At this stage you may preheat the oven at 335°f or 170°c and hold with the meat pies.

The use of a rolling pin, roll the dough at the table, it shouldn’t be too flat or too thick.

•   with a round shaped cutter, reduce out a few circles; you could make use of any smooth object you have, to get your favored length.(i made use of a bowl *wink* ).

•  put off the extra dough, and then scoop a number of the meat pie filling and vicinity inside the center of the round cut dough. Don’t upload numerous filling, so that your meat pie might not look bumpy on t
•  now rub the whisked egg, on the edges of the dough you are running with. In area of the egg, you can make use of flour & water mix.This will save you the meat pie from bursting open whilst within the oven.The following step is to fold one aspect of the circular dough to sign up for the alternative part, to shape a semicircle. Use a fork to press the edges tight and supply the meat pie its unique layout.

Now transfer unto the greased  tray and repeat this method for the final circles.

•  whilst all the meat pies are folded, rub the whisked egg on the surface of the beef pies.The egg allows to offer the meat pie a golden sheen, but that is optional.
• area the beef pies inside the preheated oven and go away to bake for 35 minutes or till the beef pies are lightly browned. You may check it occasionally, in case you are not positive of the temperature of your oven.

    The nigerian meat pies are prepared when they are lightly brown..Enjoy.he pinnacle.