Monday, January 18, 2010

(MEAT or VEG) Crunchy Mini Pie


This is excellent for tea parties or quick lunches!

You need:

- Puff pastry sheet from your local supermarket
- Spinach (sauteed earlier with garlic and salt)
- Cooked ground meat(this is optional and vegetarians can omit it). I used leftover curried ground pork meat.You can use any cooked meat(sausage will be fine).
- Cream cheese (or any grated cheese)
- Heat oven 400F (205C)

Roll out the pastry sheet and with the help of a circular cookie cutter stamp out circular pieces.
Oil-spray a nonstick cupcake baking tin.
Into each cup layer a circular piece of the pastry sheet. Then add some of the sauteed spinach, a dollop of cream cheese and a little of the ground meat. Top it with another layer of that circular pastry sheet. Make two slits on top of each pie for the release of steam.
Brush it with beaten egg (vegetarians should instead brush it with some milk) and sprinkle some crushed cornflakes for crunchiness.
Bake it for 20-23 mts. It should be golden brown in color. Turn the heat off and leave the pies in the oven for few minutes. Take out and serve

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Yummm this looks delishhh. Can't wait to try making it for the family, especially Anton and Audrey. They'll love it! Can't wait for the next blog.