Recipe: Appetizing Meat pie

Meat pie. This French Canadian meat pie is hearty, satisfying, and easy to make so it's a great choice for a holiday main course. Visually impressive, relatively affordable, and best served at room temperature, so a tourtiere doesn't require any kind of precise timing. I got the recipe from my husband's mother.

It's yummy and pretty easy to make too! Best served fresh, but you can also make ahead and freeze or refrigerate. When pork is cooked remove fat from pan. You can have Meat pie using 21 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Meat pie

1. It's of Dough.
2. Prepare 3 cups of flour.
3. It's 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 1 tbsp of sugar.
5. You need 5 tbsp of butter.
6. You need 1 tbsp of milk powder (optional).
7. Prepare of Water as required.
8. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
9. You need of Filling.
10. Prepare of Minced meat.
11. It's 1 tbsp of flour.
12. You need cubes of Seasoning.
13. It's of Diced carrot.
14. You need of Diced potatoes.
15. It's of Ginger n garlic paste.
16. It's of Blended scotch bonnet.
17. You need of Curry powder.
18. You need of Thyme.
19. You need Pinch of salt.
20. Prepare of Veg. Oil.
21. It's of Flour paste.

The pie came out tasting almost exactly like the ones we used to make! I added a pinch more salt and a little allspice to the recipe, also a teaspoon of poultry seasoning along with the sage that this recipe called for. I have saved this recipe and will continue the old tradition of meat pies for Thanksgiving and New Years Eve. The star of any meat pie recipe is obviously the meat, and we're making this Cajun classic recipe with ground beef, as per tradition.

Meat pie instructions

1. Sift all dry ingredients in a bowl except butter and mix.
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3. Add in and incorporate till crumbly.
4. Slowly add water gradually to form a dough.
5. Knead and cover the dough to rest for about 10 min.
6. Heat veg. oil in a pan, stir in ginger and garlic paste till fragnant add minced meat and cook for few minutes. Add blended scotch bonnet, stir fry. Add carrot and potatoes along with seasonings and spices. Add water a little to cook the vegetable. Dissolve flour in water to make a paste. Add to the minced meat stir and cook till it thickens. Remove from heat and allow it to cool down.
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8. Divide dough into several balls. Roll it out flat. Use a round cutter to cut a perfect circle.
9. Add the filling to the center. Rub water on the edges and seal.
10. Use a fork to press down.
11. Egg wash the top and Bake in a preheated oven till set.
12. Enjoy!.
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Cook until the meat is no longer pink, then add remaining ingredients mixing well. Allow flavors to blend for a few minutes, then remove from heat. On a floured surface roll out one of the dough balls to fit into a sprayed pie dish. Pour the meat filling inside the dough. Roll out the other dough ball, and place on top of the meat, fluting the.