Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, meat pies / nigerian dumplings. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

The Nigerian meat pies are delicious pastries filled with minced meat, potato and carrots. The pastry is slightly flaky and very rich in flavor, the filling. Nigerian meat pie is a snack most Nigerian people love to eat.

Meat Pies / Nigerian dumplings is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Meat Pies / Nigerian dumplings is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have meat pies / nigerian dumplings using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Meat Pies / Nigerian dumplings:

1. Make ready 150 g butter
2. Get 450 g flour
3. Prepare baking powder
4. Prepare 1 beaten egg for eggwashing
5. Make ready for the filling…
6. Take 300 g minced beef
7. Prepare 700 g Irish potatoes
8. Get 2 large onions
9. Prepare 2 medium sized carrots
10. Take seasoning
11. Make ready salt
12. Prepare spices

Peel the Irish potatoes and scrape the carrots, wash and cut these two into tiny cubes. UPDATE: for most party meat pies, I add a bit of sugar, because most clients want the dough. Nigerian Meat pie is one of Nigeria's popular street snack and it's easy to make. Learn to make perfert Mr biggs meat pie recipe at home.

Instructions to make Meat Pies / Nigerian dumplings:

1. 1st prepare the filling by chopping the irish potatoes and onions in cubes combine with the minced meat and spices add some water and cook till tender and pasty. then u add in your carrots
2. For the dough, combine the flour, butter, and baking powder with some water and knead into a rollable dough
3. Cut out a bit of the dough, spread some flour on the table to avoid sticking. using your rolling pin, flatten out the dough and with the pie cutter, cut the desired shape
4. Scoop and place the filling on the dough seal the edge with egg and close
5. Place pies on already greased oven tray, then eggwash for a glossy effect
6. Bake for 25-30mins

Nigerian meat pie if well done should be juicy, the shortcrust pastry will be buttery, flaky and should also melt in the mouth. Nigerian Meat pie is a delicious pastry filled with meaty-vegetabley yummyness. It is to us what beef patties are to the Jamaicans and Empanadas to the Mexicans, Spaniards and Portuguese. Some years back when I was visiting the US, my aunt ordered some meat pies from a caterer. The spicy, curry-flavored meat pie, a staple of Lagosian food culture, came about when a traditional Cornish pasty met the Nigerian spice palate.

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