Sunday 3 May 2015

Meat pie from Greece (kreatopita)

Ingredients 

1kg of beef mince. 
2-3 onions diced 
3 tbsp of cooking cream 
1 tbs of tomato paste
parsley
Some sesame for the top
1 egg for the egg wash 
1/2 pound of kefalotiri or feta cheese (in small pieces)
1/2 kg puff pastry
Salt and pepper (tasting as cheese may be salty enough) 

Method 

  1. Sauté mince well in a little olive oil. Add the diced onions in,and sauté until soft add the tomatoe paste and let it also saute add salt and pepper and cover with a little water. Allow to boil until all liquid has evaporated. 
  2. Remove from the pan and dissolve with a fork.
  3. Pour in the cream,cheese and parsley and stir. Place in a deep plate cover and let it sit in the fridge until it cools. 
  4. You can make individual pies or one large pie to feed a family 
  5. Line The bottom of a large deep baking tray with some oil or butter and place one piece of the puff pastry making sure all of the inner tray is covered with the pastry
  6. Spread the mixture in side the pastry covered tray place another pied on top sealing all the edges pinching with your fingers to creat a pattern or make pie strips as follows:
    • Spread on the leading edge of a strip of pastry this mixture along. We turn a little puff, thus closing our pie lane. In essence we have created a stick pastry stuffed.
    • We continue so until the puff pastry and finished the mixture.
  7. Place the strips in a pan, the little carved with a knife where it will cut to make individual portions, the ointment with a little milk and egg sprinkle some sesame on the top of pie and bake at 180 ° enjoy! 












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