Cream and Cloth : Nigerian Meat Pie

On our first food post I will share my mom's recipe for meat pie. Meat pie is a traditional Nigerian dish, many people make it differently and while the recipe list may seem simple and easy to make, in my opinion this is probably one of the more difficult Nigerian pastries to make. I wasn't going to add the measurements for the ingredients because it is very difficult to gauge what you need for these types of recipes because the size of your potato or pack of beef my differ from mine, so keep that in mind when re-creating these recipes. This recipe is time consuming but the results are great. Even if you don't get it perfectly right remember errors are the gateway to success. Enjoy and discuss in the comment box!

Ingredients

7 cups of flour

4 sticks of melted real butter

1 can of condensed milk

12 eggs

1 pack of ground beef

4 potatoes

1 can of carrots

1 can of peas

1 can of peas corn

spices (tyme, accent, curry, bouillon cube, salt)

extra virgin olive oil

Step 1

Filing

In medium sized skillet put in beef, accent, curry, tyme and bouillin cube. Cook for 5 minutes or until slightly brown. Add teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil. Lower heat and cook until brown. Add potatoes. Prep your carrots, peas, and corn by draining the water out of the cans. Add vegetables to skillet. lower heat until it is very lower. DO NOT COVER. cook for 10 more minutes. Cool over night (it is very difficult to make meat pie with boiling hot filling, if in a time crunch, cool in the freezer for a couple hours. The filling MUST be cooled).

Finished product, although you probably will not use all of it.
Be prepared to freeze the leftover for next time.

Step 2

Dough

In a mixing bowl add 7 cups of flour, a pinch of salt, 8 eggs, 4 sticks of melted real (my mother told me to emphasize the real in real butter lol) butter. Mix. Preheat oven to 375.

This is a small piece of what yours should look like

Step 3

Glaze

Crack open 4 eggs and only put the egg white into a cup. Mix

It should be more than this I just took this picture
halfway through the baking process,
that is why the glaze is so low

Step 4

Using a rolling pin flatten dough. Using a circular object (the circular object usually changes but this time my mother used a pot over) press into the dough.

Step 5

Add a small amount of filing in the center of the dough. Fold over the dough until edges are together. Using a fork, make indentation on the edge of the dough as to seal it.

Step 6

Spread the glaze onto the meat pie, lower the oven to 350, place meat pie on a pan and let bake for about 10 minutes. Take out the meat pie, glaze again and cook for an addition 10 minutes or until golden brown.

This recipe will make about 30 meat pie with the dough, you will have leftover filing though so make sure you freeze it so you can use it next time. It will last for a month or more when frozen. Remember to fully thaw it out when ready to use it again.