Meat & Potato Pie: Christmas Recipe

Meat potato pie may be something made usually in every kitchen 30 years back. But today, in the age of fast food and burgers, it is a luxury to have such freshly baked meat dishes. As a result, you can convert this simple meat pie recipe into a grand but easy Christmas recipe this year. Making a Meat Potato pie is the simplest thing on earth. You need not do anything grand because the recipe for meat pie remains basic.

This is an really easy recipe for Christmas dinner if you are busy working mom. Kids love pies and this meat pie recipe needs no special ingredients. You can try this minced meat recipe at half an hours notice.

Ingredients For Meat Potato Pie:

1. Minced meat (mutton): 400 grams (to serve 4)
2. Potatoes: 3 (medium sized boiled and peeled)
3. Meat stock: 1 cup
4. Onions: 2 (chopped)
5. Mushrooms: 4-5 (diced)
6. Carrots: (2 (chopped)
7. Brussels sprouts (shredded) [you can use any leafy vegetable here]
8. Ground pepper: 2 tablespoon
9. Fresh thyme: 2 sprigs
10. Fresh parsley (coriander leaves): 2 sprigs
11. Butter: 50 grams
12. Fresh cream: 1 cup
13. Flour: 2 cups
14. Milk: ½ cup
15. Eggs: 4
16. Baking soda: 1 teaspoon
17. Salt as per taste

Procedure For Meat Potato Pie:

• Boil the potatoes in the meat stock to imbibe the flavour. Mash the peeled potatoes and mix it with a tablespoon of butter and milk. Season with salt and pepper and keep aside.
• Meanwhile knead a dough out of flour, cold grated butter, fresh cream and 2 eggs. Use only cold water to knead and add a pinch of baking soda.
• Roll out a pastry the same shape and size of the baking dish you are going to use. You can actually use it as a frame. Refrigerate the pastry you have rolled for the next 20 minutes.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a pan and saute the onions in it. Add the minced meat then the onions are nicely browned and then add all the fresh and dry spices to it along with the vegetables.
• Cook for 2 minutes on low flame. Pour the meat stock into the pan and let it come to boil. Cover and cook for 5 to 7 minutes after adding salt.
• You can add a tablespoon of fresh cream to enhance the thickness of the gravy. Pour half the gravy into a baking dish greased with butter.
• Cover it with a layer of mashed potato and pour the rest of the gravy on it. Again coat it with mashed potatoes.
• Now put the pastry on top and make a few incisions for the steam to escape. Beat the other 2 eggs with milk and brush the pasty top and sides with it.
• Bake it in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes. Give it 20 minutes of standing time.