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Hairy dieters low fat meat and potato pies

Hairy Dieters Meat and Potato Pies

September 21, 2012Chilli Main Courses, Chilli Recipeschilli beef, chilli pies, chilli recipe Standard

Those of you who read my other blog or follow me on twitter will know i’ve been cooking lots of food out of the Hairy Dieters Cookbook, one of the best things about the book is that in order to get flavour into a lot of the low calorie food they use a lot of spice so chilli features quite a lot throughout the book.

Hairy dieters low fat meat and potato pies

Fresh out of the oven

One of the recipes I was most intregued to try was their meat and potato pies, firstly because I wasn’t convinced you could make pies using ready mix pizza dough (I don’t even use that for pizzas) and secondly because the meat was spiced up with a good helping of chilli powder and chilli flakes.

As it happens I was really impressed with the pies. the dough worked really well, it crisped up nicely and didn’t taste doughy like I thought it might. The filling had a nice spice kick and could certainly be tweaked to include a bit more heat. I will definitley be making them again and may even use the dough mix to make some other types of pie, I might even try my own pizza base mix as the pie casings.

I did struggle to get pie dishes so ended up using pudding ones and folding the sides down.

I’ve taken the recipe straight from here which also has a video. It makes 6 pies, we ate 2 and froze the rest after i’d cooked them.

Ingredients

  • 1 medium onion, finely diced
  • 2 small carrots, peeled and diced
  • 2 celery sticks, trimmed and finely sliced
  • 250g/9oz lean minced beef (less than 10% fat)
  • 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • 1 tbsp brown sauce
  • ½ tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tbsp plain flour
  • ½ tsp hot chilli powder
  • ½ tsp dried chilli flakes (optional)
  • ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 200g/7oz floury potatoes, preferably King Edwards or Maris Pipers, peeled and cut into 1.5cm/¾in cubes
  • 300ml/½ pint beef stock, made with 1 beef stock cube
  • 75g/3oz frozen peas

For the pastry

  • 2 x 145g/5¼oz packets pizza base mix
  • about 200ml/7fl oz lukewarm water
  • plain flour, for kneading and rolling
  • 1–2 tbsp semi-skimmed milk
Hairy Dieters Low fat meat pie

Tucking In

Method

  1. Put the onion, carrots, celery and beef together in a large non-stick saucepan and dry-fry over a high heat for 2–3 minutes, until the beef is no longer pink. Keep stirring with a couple of wooden spoons to break up the mince.
  2. Reduce the heat and add the ketchup, brown sauce, Worcestershire sauce, flour, chilli powder and chilli flakes (if using) and black pepper.
  3. Cook for a minute, then add the potatoes and stock.
  4. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and cover loosely. Simmer for 25 minutes until the potatoes are tender, stirring occasionally. If necessary, remove the lid for the last five minutes and stir more regularly until the mixture is thick.
  5. Remove from the heat, stir in the frozen peas and leave to cool completely.
  6. To make the pastry, put the pizza base mixes in a large bowl and mix with lukewarm water according to the packet instructions.
  7. Turn out on to a lightly floured surface and knead for five minutes until the dough is smooth and elastic.
  8. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 6.
  9. Using scales, divide the dough into six even portions – each will be about 80g/3oz.
  10. From each portion, take off 35g/1¼ oz of the dough to use for the pie lids.
  11. Roll out the larger piece of each portion on a lightly floured surface until it is about 3mm/ 1/8in thick and large enough to line your foil pie dish, leaving a little overhanging the sides.
  12. Lift into a pie dish and press down well into the base and sides. This can be a little tricky first time round, but the dough is very forgiving, so take it slowly until you’ve got the hang of the method.
  13. Spoon a sixth of the mince and potato mixture into the pie case. Brush the overhanging edges with a little milk.
  14. Roll out the smaller portion of pastry until it is large enough to cover the pie dish. Lift it on top of the pie and pinch the pastry firmly together. Trim with kitchen scissors – using scissors will stop the dough stretching.
  15. Repeat exactly the same process to make the other five pies and place them on a baking tray.
  16. Snip once in the centre of each pastry lid with scissors to create a large hole for steam to escape. Brush the pies generously with more milk.
  17. Bake the pies for 15 minutes, then remove them from the oven and cover each one fairly tightly with foil.
  18. Put them back in the oven for a further 15 minutes or until the pies are pale golden brown and the filling is piping hot.
  19. Remove the pies from the oven and leave to stand for five minutes before removing the foil, then tuck in!

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COMMENTS

Mary-anne Doon January 23, 2013 at 08:56 -

Hi guys,

We all love your T.V series, ‘Hairy Bikers’ and now ‘Hairy dieters’, very interesting and very enjoyable, watch every week.

Love from Australia

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