Australian Meat Pie by Videojug Team

You will need


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■ 750 g minced steak or ground beef
■ 2 beef stock cubes
■ salt and pepper
■ 500 ml water
■ 1 pinch nutmeg
■ 2 tbsp plain flour
■ 440 ml water
■ 1 tsp soy sauce
■ 500 g plain flour
■ ½ tsp salt
■ 170 ml water
■ 60 g beef dripping
■ 380 g purchased puff pastry
■ 1 egg yolk
■ 1 tsp water


Serves:
1
Preparation Time:
30 minutes
Cooking Time:
15 minutes


Step 1: Cooking the pie filling

Put meat in a pan and stir until well browned at low heat. Trim off fat. Add crumbled stock cubes, water, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Stir until it boils. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from heat.Mix flour and extra water, add to meat and stir until well-blended. Return to heat and stir until meat boils and thickens. Add soy sauce to color the mixture and simmer for 5-10 minutes. Cool.





Step 2: Preparing the pie base

Combine flour and salt. Put water and dripping in a saucepan, stir until dripping melts. Remove from heat. Make a well in center of flour then add liquid. Stir until blended. Put the mixture onto a lightly floured surface. Roll out pastry to line 8 greased pie tins. Trim excess pastry from edges. Hold upside down the pie tins and trimupside down. Top with cold meat filling onto the center of pie base.


Step 3: Preparing the pie top

Roll out puff pastry. Trim rounds for top of pies. Wet edges of base pastry and press tops in place gently. Trim around edges using sharp knife. Pierce center of pie top using a sharp knife. Brush tops with egg yolk and water combined.


Step 4: Baking instructions

Bake in a preheated oven until golden brown for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to moderate and bake for another 10 minutes.