Mince Meat Pie (snack)
Mince Meat Pie (snack)

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mince meat pie (snack). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mince Meat Pie (snack) is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mince Meat Pie (snack) is something that I have loved my whole life.

The classic buttery, flaky, seasoned meat pie recipe. This is usually found in most party occasions in Nigeria. Mincemeat is a classic pie flavor that traditionally contains fruit, pecans, brandy and citrus zest.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook mince meat pie (snack) using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mince Meat Pie (snack):
  1. Make ready 1 kg plain flour
  2. Get 2 teaspoons baking powder
  3. Get 500 g Margarine
  4. Prepare 2 pinches salt
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup cold water for the dough
  6. Get 1 habanero pepper
  7. Get 2 medium Irish potatoes
  8. Take 2 medium carrots
  9. Make ready 500 g minced meat
  10. Prepare 1 bulb onion
  11. Take 2 green bell pepper diced
  12. Get 1/2 tsp curry powder
  13. Make ready 2 cooking spoons vegetable oil
  14. Prepare 2 Knorr cubes
  15. Get 1 egg
  16. Take to taste Salt

You can buy lovely cake pop kits from Lakeland. Nigerian Meat Pie is one of the meat snacks recipes made with minced meat, potato and carrot filling. Learn how to make the best Nigerian Meat Pie here. The number of meat pies you will get depends on the diameter of the meat pie cutter you use.

Steps to make Mince Meat Pie (snack):
  1. Peel the Irish potatoes and scrape the carrots, wash and cut these two into tiny cubes. Wash and slice the onions, pepper and bell pepper into tiny pieces.
  2. Heat the vegetable oil in a pot, add the diced onions, pepper and stir for a bit, add the minced meat and stir vigorously till the minced meat cook through then add diced bell pepper and set aside
  3. Add a cup of water, Knorr cubes and curry. Cover pot, once the contents of the pot starts boiling, add the diced carrots and potatoes and cook till everything is well done.
  4. Add salt to taste, stir the contents and turn off the heat. Set the meat pie filling aside. Now is the time to prepare the dough for the meat pie.
  5. Put flour in a sizeable bowl; add baking powder and 2 pinches of salt. Mix these dry ingredients very well; add margarine into the bowl of flour, use finger tips to rub the margarine into the flour till the mix becomes like crumbs.
  6. Add water in bits while at the same time folding the mix till a stiff ball of dough is formed. Knead the dough very well, put back in the bowl and leave to rest for 5 to 7 minutes. This makes the dough more elastic
  7. Set your oven to 200°C and leave to preheat while you continue with the meat pie molding, rub margarine on the insides of the oven tray and set aside. Break the egg, beat it and set aside.
  8. Knead the dough some more, roll it out, use a meat pie cutter to make round cuts on the rolled out dough. Remove the excess dough, leaving behind the round cuts.
  9. Scoop meat pie filling into the center of the round cuts and cover mold by folding one part of the dough to meet the other end and use a fork to press the 2 edges together to close tightly.
  10. Place in the oven tray once you are done and rub the egg on the body of the meatpie dough. Set tray in the preheated oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes. You can confirm that the meat pie is done when it starts browning.

Lacking the acquired taste for mince pies, both the beefy suet and vegetarian versions, I decided to try substituting bacon. Mother made this a lot when I was growing up and she also made mincemeat cookies. Nigerian Meat pie is one of Nigeria's popular snack and it's loved by all. The buttery shortcrust pastry is filled with mincemeat cooked in rich flavour. The Meat pie filling (beef mince filling) has to be perfect as well as the shortcrust pastry otherwise it would be dry and chewy.

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