Aussie Meat Pies Made Quick Food

AUSSIE MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 medium finely chopped onion and fry for 3 to 4 minutes or until soft and translucent.
• Add 14 ounces (400 grams) ground beef and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring and breaking up with a wooden spoon until browned. At this point, you can drain the beef, if desired. But it should be quite fat-free if you used lean ground beef.
• In a small container, whisk together 1 tablespoon cornstarch and 1 tablespoon of the beef stock and set aside.
• Add remaining beef stock, 1/8 cup tomato paste, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, and Vegemite or bouillon cube to ground beef in skillet. Stir well to combine.
• Add reserved cornstarch-water mixture and stir. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until thick. Remove from heat and cool.
• Heat oven to 425 F (220 C).
• Place pie dough on a lightly floured surface. Place the pie tin on top and cut a circle around it. Repeat process to make 3 more circles-these are the pie tops. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and set aside.
• On the same lightly floured surface, place remaining pie dough and a pie tin on top and cut a circle that's slightly larger than tin (about 1/2 inch bigger)-this is the pie base. Repeat process to make 3 more bases.
• Press base pastry into pie tins and press up the sides. Fill with cooled meat mixture. Brush rims with water.
• Place pie tops over meat. Use a fork to press edges to seal. Trim edges if necessary. Brush tops with beaten egg.
• Place pies on a baking tray to catch any drips and bake for 20 minutes or until golden. Serve with tomato sauce (ketchup).

AUSSIE MEAT PIES

Steps:

• Process steak until mixture resembles mince. Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and bacon. Cook, stirring, for 3 minutes or until golden. Add mince. Cook, stirring with a wooden spoon to break up mince, for 6 to 8 minutes or until browned.
• Add tomato paste and flour. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until combined. Add stock and thyme. Stir to combine. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer for 30 minutes or until sauce has thickened and meat is tender. Season with pepper. Remove from heat.
• Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C fan-forced. Line eight 7.5cm round pie moulds with shortcrust pastry. Trim excess. (I would bake the crust for 5-8 minutes before filling with meat mixture to have a flaky crust) Fill cases with steak mixture. Top with puff pastry. Trim excess. Press edges together with a fork to seal. Using a small sharp knife, cut a small cross in pie tops. Brush with egg. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden. Serve with sauce.

AUSTRALIAN MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven at 220 degrees Celsius.
• Brown meat and onion.
• Add 3/4 cup of the water, bouillon cubes, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce, pepper, oregano, and nutmeg.
• Boil and cover for 15 minutes.
• Blend flour with the remaining 1/4 cup water until it becomes a smooth paste; add to the meat mix.
• Let cool.
• Grease a pie dish and line with puff pastry.
• Add the cooled filling mixture; brush edges of pastry with milk or beaten egg; put the pastry top on; press edges down with a fork.
• Trim edges and glaze top with milk or beaten egg.
• Bake in a very hot oven, 220 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
• Reduce heat to 180 degrees Celsius and bake for 25 more minutes, or until golden brown.
• Serve with veggies, fries, or salad.

AUSSIE MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Cook onion and meat until meat is well browned. Add 3/4 cup water, stock cubes, sauces and seasonings, bring to the boil, cover and simmer 15 minutes.
• Blend flour with remaining water to make a smooth paste. Add to the meat and bring to the boil, stirring continuously; boil 5 minutes, cool.
• Line a lightly greased pie plate with the shortcrust pastry.
• Spoon in the cooled meat filling.
• Moisten edges of pastry base with water. Top with puff pastry sheet, pressing down gently to seal edges. Trim and score edges. Glaze.
• Bake in very hot oven for 15 minutes, reduce to moderately hot and cook a further 25 minutes or until pastry is goldn.

FAIR DINKUM AUSSIE MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat hot oven (200 degrees).
• Line a medium sized oven proof pie dish with 1 1/2 sheets of pastry and trim the edges. Make sure the pastry covers the base and up the sides of the dish.
• Cook mince and onion until mince is brown, season with salt and pepper.
• When meat is cooked, thicken with the Gravy mixture.
• Tip into prepared pie dish.
• Brush around edges with milk. Put the 1 1/2 on top of pie to seal. Trim edges and prick with a fork. Brush with beaten milk.
• Cook in a hot oven 15 minutes, then turn oven back to moderate (180 degrees) and cook a further 20 minutes.
• This pie is great served with mashed potato, peas and plenty of tomato sauce!

AUSSIE MEAT PIES

Steps:

• Sift flour into bowl; rub in lard.
• Add eggs and enough water to make ingredients cling together.
• Press dough into a ball, knead gently on a floured surface until smooth, cover, refrigerate 1/2 hour.
• Divide dough into 8 portions.
• Roll out each portion on lightly floured surface large enough to line 11 cm pie tins.
• Trim away excess pastry.
• Place tins on oven tray, line pastry with paper, fill with dried beans or rice.
• Bake in moderately hot oven about 8 minutes, remove paper and beans, bake further 8 minutes or until pastry is lightly browned, cool.
• Spoon cold filling into pastry cases.
• Cut 8 x 12cm rounds from puff pastry, brush edges of pastry with a little egg yolk; gently press puff pastry tops into place; trim edges.
• Brush tops with a little more egg yolk.
• Make 2 small slits in centre of pies, place on oven trays, bake in moderately hot oven about 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Serve hot with tomato sauce.
• Filling: Heat lard in pan, add onion, cook stirring until soft.
• Add mince, stir over heat until browned.
• Stir in sauces, stock powder, water and allspice.
• Bring to boil, simmer, covered, 20 minutes.
• Stir in blended cornflour and extra water, stir over heat until mixture boils and thickens.

GOOD OL' AUSSIE MEAT PIE

Steps:

• cook onion and minced beef over high heat till brown.
• add 3/4 cup water, stock cubes,sauces and seasonings.
• bring to the boil and cover. simmer for 15 minutes.
• blend flour with remaining water to make a paste.
• add to meat and bring back to the boil, stirring constantly.
• boil for a further 5 minutes till nicely thickened.
• take off the heat and allow to cool completely.
• pre-heat oven to 230c.
• line a greased pie plate with the short pastry and spoon in filling.
• cover with the puff pastry and trim.
• glaze with milk.
• bake for 15 minutes then reduce the temperature to 190c and cook for a further 25 minutes.
• serve with green peas and mash potatoes.
• gla.