Do you like meat and potato pie ? Surely your answer will be positive. Only those who have never tried such a treat can dislike him. This divine taste of a crisp, soft as if a potato melting in your mouth and small juicy pieces of meat together form a delicious dish, tasting it once, you will forever remain its fan.
How to make a pie with potatoes and meat? In fact, there are a great many recipes for its preparation. Probably every family and every housewife has their own secrets of baking this pie. I will reveal to you my secret of its preparation.
Oddly enough, this sounds, but my father, who is considered the best cook and cook in our family, taught me how to cook a pie with meat and potatoes. First you need to knead the yeast dough. Since I still have not mastered this difficult science, I always buy dough in the store. You just need to choose a good manufacturer. But the filling for the pie with potatoes and meat according to my father’s recipe, I get excellent.
So, we will consider the main stages in the preparation of potato pie with meat:
Cooking potatoes. Perhaps this is the longest procedure. For a pie with meat and medium-sized potatoes (per leaf from the oven) you will need 4-5 large potatoes. We wash them under running water, clean, then we start to chop. I usually cut potatoes for a pie with very thin, but wide slices no more than 1 mm thick. This is a rather painstaking and laborious job. If you want to finish this business faster, you can cut the potatoes into slices or straws. But then there is a high probability that it will not be baked and will crunch. After the potatoes are sliced, fill it with cold salt water so that it does not turn black and has time to absorb the right amount of salt.
Choose meat filling. Pie with meat and potatoes will have completely different unlike taste depending on what kind of meat you will use. If you take chicken, you get a very tender, low-fat, dietary product. If you take pork, then the cake will turn out to be juicy, tasty and quite high-calorie. I personally do not recommend using one beef, as it is firm and dry for a pie. But the potato pie with minced pork and beef in a proportion of 50:50 will be just amazing.
Cooking the filling. The selected meat must be thoroughly washed, cut into small pieces up to 1 cm in size, or minced meat should be rolled out of it. Chopped meat must be salt and pepper to taste.
Mix potatoes and meat. Most housewives skip this stage of work, laying out the meat and potatoes separately. I recommend pre-mixing potatoes with meat in one deep pan so that they are saturated with each other's juices and combine their delicious aromas. Just then the pie with meat and potatoes will be especially tasty. Do not forget to add 2-3 leaves of parsley and a head of finely chopped onions.
We form a pie. To do this, roll out a large circle or square from the dough (it all depends on the shape that you will use when baking). We put it in a pan greased with oil, bend the edges. Then we begin to lay out the filling. We do this evenly, distributing potatoes with meat throughout the volume of the form. Then roll out the top crust for our pie. This circle will already be slightly smaller than the bottom. It is also advisable to make it thinner. We cover the pie, pinch the edges. In order for the pie with potatoes and meat to be well baked, you need to make a small hole in the middle. If you used lean meats, you can add 1-2 tablespoons of sunflower oil to this hole, or put 1 tablespoon of butter on top of this hole.
Put the cake in a preheated oven for 30-60 minutes. Here it all depends on the heating properties of your oven or miracle oven. I have a pie with potatoes and meat baked in a conventional gas oven for about 45 minutes. 5-10 minutes before the cake is ready, it is necessary to lubricate it with a brush dipped in sunflower oil, so that the crust becomes more tender, crispy and shiny.
That's all! Pie with potatoes and meat is ready! Enjoy your meal!