Nuran's Recipes · Pastries & Pies
Meat Pie Pastry
125 gms cold butter
2 ½ cups plain flour
Cold water
sift the plain flour giving it a lot of air,[hold the sieve high above the basin and shake it .
Grate the butter over the flour.
mix the butter in the flour with a knife
Sprinkle a little water at a time , mixing the dough with a knife till all the flour is combined, make sure it is not too wet.
Now with your hands bring the dough into a ball. If you need a bit more water, that’s fine.
The dough should come clean off the bowl
Wrap with a cling wrap and put in fridge for 20 minutes to rest
Roll it out to line a big pie dish or small individual ones.
Brush the edge of the pie with egg wash cover with a piece of thawed puff pastry,make a slit in the middle and brush with egg wash and bake in a hot oven 200 degrees for 20 minutes or till golden brown.
Various meat pie filling recipies will follow.