Old-fashioned Meat Pie
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
30 min.
Preparation
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Ingredients
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1
- Ingredients
- 14 ozs frozen Puff pastry
- flour (for the work surface)
- butter (for the dish)
- 4 slices Bread
- 1 onion
- 4 cups fresh button Mushroom
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 3 ¼ cups ground Beef (pork and beef)
- 3 ¼ cups ground Pork (pork and beef)
- 2 Dried Tomatoes (in oil, chopped)
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsps dried Italian herbs
- salt
- peppers
- breadcrumbs (as necessary)
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 Tbsps water
Preparation steps
1.
Preheat the oven to 200°C.
2.
Lay the sheets of puff pastry side by side to thaw and brush half of them with water. Place on top of each other and roll out on a floured work surface to a circle slightly bigger than the pie dish. Line the pie dish and chill.
3.
For the filling, soak the bread in lukewarm water, squeeze out well and put into a bowl. Peel and finely chop the onion. Clean and thinly slice the mushrooms then chop into smaller pieces. Heat the oil and sweat the onion and mushrooms. Pour off the excess liquid, then put into the bowl along the mince. Add the chopped tomatoes, eggs and herbs and season with salt and pepper. Mix well. Add a few breadcrumbs if the mixture is too moist. Spread the mince mixture evenly in the lined pie dish. Roll out the rest of the pastry as for the base and cut to fit the top of the pie. Put the lid on top of the filling and fold the overhanging pastry up over the edge of the pie. Press the edges together. Cut a circle out of the pastry in the centre of the pie. Whisk the egg yolk with the water and brush the top of the pie. Bake in the preheated oven for about 60 minutes. Cover with aluminium foil if it browns too quickly.
