Meat Pie Made With Frozen Pastry To Serve to Guests - pastry

Method

• Finely chop the garlic and onion.
• Slice the mushrooms thinly.
• Cut the bell peppers and cheese into 7mm dice.
• Saute the A ingredients: Heat up a frying pan, add oil, and add the garlic.
• Saute until fragrant, then add the vegetables and saute until the onions are translucent.
• Season with salt and pepper, and leave to cool.
• Put the ground beef, the sauteed vegetables from Step 3 and the B ingredients in a bowl, and mix and knead together well.
• Put 2 sheets of the frozen puff pastry on a floured work surface, and roll them out together to about 2-3 mm thickness to make one big sheet.
• Roll out the other two sheets likewise.
• Line the pie pan with one of the sheets.
• Press the pastry sheet well into a pie pan.
• Cut off any excess pastry with a knife.
• Fill the pie with the Step 4 meat mixture and press down on the surface to level it out.
• Brush the edge of the pastry with beaten egg, and cover with the other sheet of pastry.
• Cut off any excess pastry.
• Press down on the pie well.
• Pinch the edge of the pie all around with your thumb and forefinger to make it decorative.
• Cut leaf-shaped decorations out of hte leftover pastry.
• Brush the surface of the pie with beaten egg, stick on the decoratiions, and brush them with egg also.
• Put the pie in an oven preheated to 200 C, and bake for about 25 minutes.
• The baking time will vary depending on your oven, so please juse use the time as a basic guideline.
• Done!!!!
• If it looks like the top is cooking too fast and may burn, cover it with aluminium foil.
• This is what a lattice pattern version of the pie looks like.
• Please decorate the pie in any way you prefer.
• I also recommend making mini pies, since they are easy to eat and cute.