Shortcrust pastry makes great baked goods. Moreover, it can be not only sweet, but also salty. Step-by-step recipe with a photo of shortcrust pastry meat pie. Video recipe.

Meat pie is a favorite snack of many gourmets, and the most suitable dough for it is shortbread. Shortcrust pastry is very versatile, a variety of pastries are baked from it: cookies, baskets, flat cakes, rolls, pies … It is wonderful in both sweet and savory recipes. With him absolutely everything turns out equally tasty. In addition, shortbread dough is one of the easiest. It doesn’t take long to cook, yet it tastes great. If you are looking for a quick snack cake recipe, then check out this product. Because these baked goods will come out right the first time, even if you have never dealt with shortbread dough.
You can make the dough in double portions, use half for a snack meat pie for dinner, and make the other half with a sweet filling for tea. Because the dough recipe is universal. So you will delight loved ones with delicious homemade salty and sweet pastries. Well, if you don't want to bother with preparing the dough, then buy it in the store, ready-made frozen. For the filling in this meat pie, you can take any kind of meat, you can also make an assortment and take several of its types. Pork, beef, poultry, veal, etc. will do.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 485 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 1 Pie
- Cooking time - 1 hour 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- Butter - 150 g
- Wheat flour - 300 g
- Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Meat (any sort) - 700 g
- Sugar - 0.5 tsp
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Sour cream - 250 ml
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Cheese - 100 g
- Garlic - 2 cloves
Step-by-step preparation of shortcrust pastry meat pie, recipe with photo:

1. To prepare the dough, take flour sifted through a fine sieve, one fresh egg, a pinch of salt, sugar and cold butter.

2. Cut the butter into medium cubes.

3. Pour flour, a pinch of salt and sugar on it.

4. Use your hands to stir the dough, kneading the butter, to make a homogeneous crumb. Do not knead the dough for a long time, because it doesn't like warmth. To make the dough crumbly, you need to knead it very quickly.

5. Add the egg to the dough.

6. Stir the dough with your hands, forming a round lump.

7. Wrap the dough in a plastic bag and refrigerate for 40 minutes or freezer for 15 minutes.

8. While the dough is cooling, prepare the filling. To do this, take meat, onions, garlic, sour cream, eggs, cheese, tomato paste, salt, vegetable oil and black pepper.

9. Wash the meat and dry it with a paper towel. Cut off excess fat and cut into small pieces.

10. Peel the onions, rinse and cut into small cubes.

11. Peel and chop the garlic.

12. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet, turn on high heat and add meat. Fry it until golden brown.

13. Add the onion and garlic to the pan. Stir and cook for another 5-7 minutes.
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14. Season the meat with salt and black pepper and add the tomato sauce.

15. Stir the food, boil and simmer covered over low heat for 5 minutes.

16. Prepare the dressing. To do this, pour the contents of the egg into a bowl.

17. Whisk the egg until smooth. You do not need to beat until fluffy with a mixer.

18. Add sour cream, a pinch of salt to the eggs and stir.

19. Next, put half a serving of grated cheese.

twenty. Remove the dough from the refrigerator, remove the bag and use a rolling pin to roll it into a layer about 7-8 mm thick. Place it in a rimmed baking dish and trim off the excess edges of the dough.

21. Put the meat filling into the dough pan.

22. Pour the egg-sour cream dressing over the meat so that it completely covers the filling.

23. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on the product and send the shortcrust pastry meat pie in a heated oven to 180 degrees for 40 minutes. You need to serve it to the table after it is completely cooled. Therefore, first cool it at room temperature, and then bring it to complete cooling in the refrigerator.
See also a video recipe on how to cook a meat pie on shortbread dough.