There are 2 Nigerian meat pie recipes on this post; Below is my
first attempt recipe at making Nigerian meat pie. After that, you see another recipe I used after I mastered the skill of making Nigerian meat pie. Good luck as you scroll down to see both…
My first attempt Nigerian Meat Pie In the Oven.
Nigerian meat pie recipe: First Attempt… Another recipe is below please, you can use any
Nigerian meat pie also known as minced pie because of the minced meat used is absolutely delicious. Meat pie is an easy to make Nigerian snack that is loved and enjoyed by many. It is so filling and yummy.
This first attempt meat pie turned out yummy and I was shocked because two things went wrong while baking.
WHAT WENT WRONG:
1. The boiled carrots I kept in the fridge were forgotten.
2. While brushing eggs on the meat pie, the bowl (egg albumen) accidentally fell from my hand and emptied itself badly on the meat pies in the baking tray. There was no way I could scoop it out.
3. Baking my Nigerian meat pie started with electricity, switched over to gas then, ended up using both gas and electricity at the same time, Lol.
After baking, the girls were asked to have a taste and give their scores. They ate and continued to ask for more.
My dinner was wasted because everyone ate so much meat pie that they rejected dinner. The mistake I made was baking meat pies close to dinner time.
Ingredients for making Nigerian meat pie at home:
4 cups plain baking flour
2 medium sized Irish potatoes
500g Beef which I blended myself, you can buy minced meat
a pinch of salt
1 sachet baking margarine (250g)
1 teaspoon thyme
2 egg whites to seal the edges and brush on the meat pies
1 seasoning cube
2 teaspoons baking powder if you are using plain flour, if you bake with self-raising-flour, do not add baking powder
Two tablespoons flour to thicken the filling
2 medium sized carrots I forgot to use
1 medium sized onion
water
DIRECTION ON HOW TO MAKE NIGERIAN MEAT PIE AT HOME
1. Boil your diced carrots and potatoes with a pinch of salt till soft, you can stir fry instead if that’s how you like your vegetables cooked. Set aside.
2. Steam your minced meat with a little salt, seasoning cube and the diced onion till the pink disappears and check for taste. You may stir fry the minced meat too if that’s how you prefer to cook your vegetables. If like me, your meat is not minced, you can boil with onion and salt and then blend or blend first and then boil (Same great taste).
3. While meat and vegetable cooks, follow the steps on picture 7 and 8 below to mix the dough. When done and put in the fridge. Remember that keeping in the fridge is optional, you can go ahead and bake without first dropping dough ball in the fridge.
4. Mix cooked vegetable together with cooked meat and 2 tablespoons of flour to thicken, put to simmer for about 3 minutes or until you see the consistency turn thick. If it’s runny, sealing the meat pie will be difficult as the juices will be all over your flat dough preventing the edges from sticking. Let the mixture thicken, check for taste again and add salt if needed. Your filling is ready for use. If you stir fry, continue to check and add water if needed to enable potatoes cook through, when they are done, you can add the flour and stir very well to thicken.
5. Flatten dough on a flat surface, cut as seen below, scoop filling with a tablespoon and place on the cut dough. Then lightly brush your egg white around the edges for proper sealing as you co not want your meat pies opening up while baking.
6. Lift up the far end of dough to cover the other end close to you, press with a fork and place on a greased baking tray, You may not need to grease the baking tray if you used baking sheets or if you wrapped the tray with foil. Only grease if it’s a bare baking pan.
7. Repeat the cutting, filling and sealing until all the dough is used up.
8. Brush the egg white on the raw meat pie before putting tray in a preheated oven.
9. Bake until golden brown, Depending on the type of oven, you may need to flip after the down is brown to enable both sides brown and cook through.
10. Nigerian meat pie is best served hot.
If you follow these steps without accidents like mine here, you’ll get a perfect Nigerian minced pie.
Enjoy!
Homemade Nigerian meat pies are so nutritious as you have the freedom to add the flavours you want and even take out what you don’t like in your homemade meat pie.
With all the forgetfulness and avoidable accidents while baking, I thought this was my worst meat pie while every one said it’s their best ever.
Hopefully I bake a better one this week and post. sorry guys. WELL DONE!!! INGREDIENTS FOR NIGERIAN MEAT PIE WITH ALREADY MADE MINCED- MEAT:
4 cups plain baking flour
2 medium sized Irish potatoes
2 large carrots
1 medium sized onion
1kg minced beef
a pinch of salt
1 sachet baking margarine (250g)
1 teaspoon thyme
2 eggs to soften the dough more
2 egg whites with a teaspoon of milk mixed to seal the edges and to brush on the meat pies
1 seasoning cube
2 tea spoons baking powder if you are using plain flour, if you bake with self-raising-flour, do not add baking powder
2 table spoons flour to thicken the filling
1 medium sized onion to stir fry with the meat, carrots and potato cubes
120 ml water to start with. If dough gets too soft, sprinkle in more flour. If this water isn’t enough, ie, dough is still very hard and dry after adding all the 200 ml of water, you can still add some more water in very small quantities while mixing until you hands come out clean and free from flour.
BAKING ITEMS:
meat pie cutter or cup with sharp edges or the lid of a can or bottle
board or clean table
dough rolling pin
baking tray
Small paint brush to rub eggs on meat pie
table fork
oven
sieve
bowl SEE STEP BY STEP PICTURE RECIPE BELLOW:
shredded beef for my simple meat pie
boil shredded beef with salt and onion
cooked beef with stock
cut beef into smaller sizes and blend
meat ground together with tasty meat stock
soft meat for meat pie
adding baking margarine, baking powder, a pinch of salt and rubbing in sieved flour with my fingertips to look crumbly/make crumbs.
After dough and margarine becomes crumbly, add little water in bits while mixing, continue to mix and knead till dough can be molded into a ball. Wrap in cellophane or cling film and leave in the fridge for about half an hour to improve the dough, then, then, it’s ready for delicious meat pie
THANK YOU!!!
NOW GET READY FOR STEP B I like to make my meat pie or buy from a few places I know I enjoy theirs. Reason being that I do not enjoy meat pies with tomato taste and again, I do not like to bite into chunks of meat pieces. I like my meat soft with potatoes, boiled carrots and a few other ingredients.
When I make mine, I ensure there are no spices except thyme. Not even curry. I blend my meat soft, boil carrots and potatoes very soft too.
boiled potatoes are chopped
thyme, salt and chopped potatoes are added to ground meat
mix ingredients and taste for salt (add boiled and chopped carrots )
Roll the dough cut flattened dough with meat pie cutter or cup. *wink*
cut flattened dough with meat pie cutter or cup. *wink*
add ingredients to cut dough, rub eggs on the edges to enable smooth folding
just enough meat for easy folding
fold and press the egg rubbed edges with a fork
Use fork to press the edge together.
fold and press the egg rubbed edges with a fork
YOU CAN ALSO USE DOUGH CUTTER.
See the sample below: cutting dough with a meat pie cutter
add meat to cut dough
press cutter closed to shape meat pie
cut meat pie ready for the heated oven
ASSIGNMENT:
Buy meat pie ingredients and practice it. snap and show the picture on the group chat. JOIN WHATSAPP GROUP
