Mini Mexican Meat Pies Recipes

MINI MEXICAN MEAT PIES

Steps:

• 1. Cook meat, drain. Add onion, pepper, garlic, chili powder, cumin & oregano and cook for about 5 minutes or until veggies are softened. Add paste & broth and cook a little more till thickened but not dry. Pull from heat & let cool a few minutes.
• 2. Move meat to a bowl, add cheddar, sour cream, ketchup, salt & pepper to taste.
• 3. Roll out piecrust and cut rounds with a glass (I use a pint glass). Put a heaping tsp in middle of circle, fold in half over filling pinching the ends. Put on foil covered pan, freeze for 10 min. At this point you can refrigerate up to 1 day, or bake immediately.
• 4. Sprinkle with chili powder and bake @ 400 for 7-10 min until golden. Serve warm or room temp.
• 5. AIOLI DIP to serve on the side: Mix ingredients and refrigerate for at least 30 min.

AUNT MARY'S IMPOSSIBLE MEXICAN PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Lightly grease 10 inch pie plate.
• Cook and stir ground beef and onion in 10 inch skillet until brown; drain.
• Stir in seasoning mix.
• Spread beef mixture in pie plate.
• Sprinkle with chilies and cheese.
• Beat remaining ingredients until smooth.
• Pour in pie shell.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes.
• Let stand 5 minutes before cutting.
• Garnish with peppers and cheese.

CAJUN MINI MEAT PIES

Steps:

• Filling:.
• Brown ground meat only till all brown.
• add the rest of ingredients and simmer till all are cooked down.
• drain in a strainer let sit in strainer to cool down set aside.
• Crust:.
• Mix all dry ingredients in large bowl.
• Mix eggs and milk.
• add to dry ingredients slowly while stiring.
• add shorting and cut in with pastry cutter or two knives.
• when well mixed form balls about the size of a tennis ball.
• roll out ball with rolling pen.
• cut out in about a 6 inch circle.
• use wet paper towle to wet around outer circle.
• put about 2 tablespoons of meat filling in center.
• fold over crust to form like a half moon
• press edges to seal with fingers.
• use a fork to repress edges and give a decortive look.
• when all are done put in fridge for at least an hour or till ready to fry.
• fry in very hot oil.
• turn when golden brown and fry other side.
• frying is very fast do not over fry meat is already cooked.
• can freeze unfried only.
• wrap indivdually in wax paper put several in zip lock bags freeze flat.
• after frozen then can stack as will.

QUICK & EASY MINI MEAT PIES #5FIX

Steps:

• Divide the mashed potatoes in half, returning one half to the bag to refreeze, thaw the remaining half and set aside.
• Thaw and drain 1/2 bag (about 8 oz.) of the peas and carrots, and place in a medium bowl.
• Over medium heat cook the sausage (the meat having been removed from the casing) and the onion in a nonstick skillet, stirring, until the sausage is browned and the onions are translucent, about 8 minutes. Drain off the grease and pour the meat-onion mix into a large bowl, set aside.
• In the same pan, with any residual grease left in the pan, cook the peas and carrots for another 2 minutes.
• Pour the peas and carrots into the meat mixture, then fold in the thawed (10 ounces portion) of the mashed potatoes.
• With a rolling pin, roll out the biscuit dough and cut into 12 (3-inch) rounds.
• Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
• Put a generous tablespoonful of the filling in the center of each round, brush the edges with water, and fold in half. Seal the edges with a fork. Cut 2 small slits in the top of each meat pie.
• Put the mini-pies on an un-greased baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes until they are golden brown. Remove, let cool slightly, and serve.

MEXICALI MEAT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat Oven to 425 degrees.
• Fry the bacon until it is crisp and break it into pieces.
• Put 1/2 cup of the bacon drippings in freezer and chill until firm.
• Brown the ground beef in a large skillet until it is brown.
• Drain off any grease.
• Add corn, bell pepper, onion, corn meal, oregano, chili powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, pepper and the tomato sauce.
• Allow meat mixture to cool while you prepare the pie crust.
• PIE CRUST:.
• Combine the flour and cornmeal.
• Cut in the bacon drippings or shortening until the mixture is the size of small peas.
• Add the ice water a little at a time while stirring with a fork until the dough holds together.
• Roll into a ball and flatten to 1/2 inch.
• Roll out on a floured surface and place in a 9 inch pie plate.
• Flute the edge.
• Pour the meat mixture into the prepared pie crust.
• Bake in a 425 degree oven for 25 minutes.
• While pie is baking, prepare topping.
• TOPPING:.
• Combine egg, milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, mustard, Worchestershire Sauce and cheese.
• Spread on the pie.
• Top with crumbled bacon and sliced olives.
• Put back in oven for 5 minutes or until the cheese melts.
• Remove from the oven and let it stand for 10 minutes before serving.

MINI MEAT PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200°C.
• Cut pastry into 48 circles if making traditional pies, or 24 if making uncovered pies using a 7 cm round cutter.
• Press 24 circles into two lightly greased 12-hole patty tins.
• To make filling, heat oil in heavy-based pan, add onion and garlic and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes or until onion is soft.
• Add mince and stir over high heat for 5 minutes or until well browned and all liquid has evaporated; using a fork to break up any lumps of mince.
• Add flour, stir until combined then cook over medium heat for 1 minutes.
• Add stock, sauces and herbs and stir over the heat until boiling.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes or until mixture thickens.
• Stir occasionally then allow to cool.
• Divide filling among pastry circles.
• Top each with two half slices of tomato and sprinkle with oregano.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until pastry is golden brown and crisp.
• For traditional pies, place the remaining pastry rounds over the tomato and oregano topping and seal the edges with beaten egg before baking.
• Serve hot.