mini Meat Hand-pies
These are LITTLE. I made them for kid’s sized hands, so you know they are small. But they were just enough for a meal or possibly and hors d’ouvres for a normal sized person.
ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, chopped fine
1 clove of garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
2 Tablespoons tomato paste
salt
pepper
pie dough (recipe, here)
1 egg
water
salt
pepper
If you’ve made your pie dough ahead like I do, bring it out to defrost a little while you make the filling.
In a skillet, heat the olive oil and saute the onion and the garlic until soft. Add the ground beef and cook until just no longer pink.
Add the paprika, worcestershire sauce and tomato paste. Season with salt and pepper and simmer until the flavors are combined. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Prep a baking sheet with a silpat.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out your pie dough. I like to make it about 1/4 inch thick, thin enough so it’s not so dough-y but thick enough to hold in the filling. Using a 3″ biscuit cutter, cut out rounds and place on a silpat lined baking sheet. For every one – cut another one – that will become the top part of the pie.
On the bottom cut out use a Tablespoon+ and put the filling down in the middle. Add a second cut out on top and use your fingers to press the seams together. You can also use a fork to put tine marks along the sides.
I like to decorate the tops for kicks, too. For these I cut out teeny little dough hearts and placed one on top of each of the hand pies.
Now in a small bowl, whisk together the egg and about one tablespoon of water. Brush the tops of the hand pies with the egg wash to give it a nice brown when it’s baking. Sprinkle the tops with a little bit of salt and pepper.
Once you have them all assembled, bake for 12-15 minutes. Let them cool a bit on wire racks, about a minute, you just don’t want steaming hot filling to come out and burn your mouth. Then plate and serve warm.
The kids liked that these were ‘their size’ and of course the Kid devoured the pastry first, while the Baby gutted the pie of all the meat filling. At least they both agreed it was cute and tasty!
So cute! They look really good.
This is like “empanadas” in Argentina…do you know them?? They are so good, and you can filled them with cheese and ham, cheese with onion, meat, chicken, blue cheese and tomato….anything you like!