Nigerian meat pie. For another version of this recipe visit the Nigerian Meat Pie as a Dessert page. Click >> Different Shapes of Nigerian Meat Pie for how to get the heart, circular, star and other shapes of our delicious Nigerian Meat Pie. The number of meat pies you will get depends on the diameter of the meat pie cutter you use.

These meat pies are popular in west Africa and Nigeria. If you haven't tasted the Nigerian meat pie you must try this recipe ASAP, they are the ultimate comfort food! West African Meat pie or the Nigerian Meat pie is light and slightly Flaky and it's stuffed with well seasoned Ground Beef (minced Beef), Potatoes and carrots.

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, nigerian meat pie. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Nigerian meat pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It's enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it's fast, it tastes delicious. Nigerian meat pie is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

For another version of this recipe visit the Nigerian Meat Pie as a Dessert page. Click >> Different Shapes of Nigerian Meat Pie for how to get the heart, circular, star and other shapes of our delicious Nigerian Meat Pie. The number of meat pies you will get depends on the diameter of the meat pie cutter you use.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nigerian meat pie using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nigerian meat pie:

{Make ready 6 cups of flour.
{Get 500 g of butter.
{Take 1 spoon of baking powder.
{Prepare 1 spoon of salt.
{Make ready 4 of eggs.
{Get of Minced meat.
{Get of Carrot.
{Take 1 of Onion.
{Take 2 of scotch bonnet.
{Prepare 2 of big Irish potatoes.
{Make ready of Warm water.

These Meat pies are a comfort to the soul and a delight to the palate. They can be eaten as breakfast, brunch, or as a snack. Nigerian meat pie if well done should be juicy, the shortcrust pastry will be buttery, flaky and should also melt in the mouth. If you've ever had Mr Biggs meat pie then you would understand my gist.

Instructions to make Nigerian meat pie:

Wash hands, in a bowl mix flour baking powder and salt.
Add unsalted butter 500g mix till makes crumbs.
Add 4 eggs and mix well add warm water mix then remove from the bowl and place on a table to knead,continue kneading till all the ingredients mix well together put it back in the bowl and set aside.
Cut the potatoes,carrots and onion into small cubes..
Add a little oil in a pan and add the onion after like 2 min add scotch bonnet then add minced meat and live to cook for like 5 min..
Add potatoes into d meat followed by carrots and seasonings allow to cook..
Use rolling pin to roll out d dough and place the dough on a meat pie cutter put one spoon of stocking and cut..
Bake under 180°c for 10 min.

The Meat pie filling (beef mince filling) has to be perfect as well as the shortcrust pastry otherwise it would be dry and chewy. Nigerian Meat Pies recipes typically use margarine because of the difficulty of working with an all-butter crust. Too much heat from your hands can make the dough unworkable and too much kneading can lead to the formation of gluten. The secret to this perfect Easy Nigerian Meat Pie is three main ingredients: cold butter, eggs and vinegar. The Nigerian meat pie recipe has also undergone some changes.

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