Beef mini meat pies

original post:http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2014/09/beefy-button-top-mini-pies.html

Ingredients

Beef patty filling

½ onions

3 cloves garlic

7 scallion stalks

1 teaspoon allspice berries

1 teaspoon thyme leaves

¼ cup water

1 lb beef

¾ teaspoon salt

1 ½ teaspoon sugar

¼ teaspoon black pepper

¼ teaspoon smoked paprika

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 ½ tablespoon oil

1 cup beef stock

8 blended crackers

1 teaspoon browning

Crust

1 Pillsbury pizza dough mix

½ cup Hot water

Oil for brushing

Instructions

Beef filling

    • Preheat the oven to 450 degrees
    • Prepare the pizza dough and set aside
    • Blend together onion, garlic, scallion, allspice berries, thyme leaves, and water
    • In a dish lightly mix the ground beef, salt, sugar, black pepper, paprika and cayenne pepper
    • In a deep pot heat the oil add the beef and sauté for a few minutes until all the beef has started to cook
    • Once there is no red left in the beef add the blended onion mixture and the crackers cover over a low flame and allow to cook for 3 minutes
    • Stir in the beef stock, cover and allow to cook again for another 5 minutes. The beef could be creamy and have a green/grayish tint
    • Remove from the heat and thoroughly mix in the browning to get a really nice color on the beef filling
    • Set aside to cool

Assemble

    • Spray a mini cupcake tray with no stick cooking spray
    • Roll out the pizza dough as large as possible and cut out 24 circles from it
    • Slightly stretch each circle by hand and place in the cupcake tray
    • Fill each with a small scoop of beef filling
    • Roll the remaining dough and cut another 24 circles from it
    • Place on the top of each, tuck in the sides
    • Use a toothpick to poke 3 to 4 holes in each top
    • Brush with some oil and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown

Greedy tips

    • I prefer using crackers as opposed to breadcrumbs because I find the blended crackers give a creamy texture to the filling. Bread crumbs to me soaks up all the moisture and adds nothing to the beef filling.
    • Don’t worry if the tops raise a bit from the bottom crust