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GROUND BEEF PIE

Homemade ground beef pie with tender minced meat filling and thin olive oil dough sheets. A hearty, traditional dish perfect for family meals.
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Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Time 2 hours
Servings: 8 people
Calories: 480
Ingredients Equipment Method Video Notes

Ingredients
  

For the dough
  • 500 g of all-purpose flour
  • ½ tbsp of salt
  • 250 g of water at room temperature
  • ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
For the filling
  • 300 g minced beef, passed through the machine once
  • 4-5 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  • 2 crushed cloves of garlic
  • 1 medium carrot, finely chopped
  • 2 cups hot meat broth or water
  • 1 bay leaf
  • Salt
  • Freshly ground pepper

Equipment

  • Large mixing bowl
  • Mixer with dough hook, optional
  • Knife and cutting board
  • Saucepan with lid
  • Rolling pin (or hands for sheet rolling)
  • Baking tray or pan
  • Oven
  • Wooden spoon or spatula

Method
 

For the filling
  1. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and cook the minced meat for 6 minutes on high heat. We do not stir the meat, because it should not begin to boil in its liquids, but simply brown.
  2. Lower the heat from high to medium and open the center of the minced meat with a spoon as if making a large hole in the center. Pour a tablespoon of olive oil and add the chopped onion, the crushed garlic and the grated carrot.
  3. Sauté the vegetables for about 5 minutes on medium heat until they are soft and shiny, without the onions getting any color.
  4. Mix and then raise the heat from medium to high, extinguish the ingredients with the wine and let the alcohol evaporate completely.
  5. Add the water or hot broth and once it boils, reduce the heat from high to medium and cover the pot with a lid.
  6. Simmer the minced meat over low to medium heat for about 45 minutes.
  7. At the end of boiling, add salt and pepper. Cover again and simmer for about 10 minutes until the mince is tender, set properly and and soft. Instructions
For the dough
  1. Place the flour, water and salt in a large bowl or mixing bowl.
  2. Knead very well for about 10 minutes with our hands or in a mixer with a hook at medium speed.
  3. As soon as the dough is ready, cut it into 4 identical balls.
  4. In a pan which we have smeared with olive oil, place the dough (4 balls) which we smear with olive oil and cover with a membrane or a towel, let them rest for about 30 minutes.
  5. With our hand we press the dough (balls) so that they open slightly and leave it for another 30 minutes to rest.
  6. Roll out the dough with olive oil into a very thin sheet, one dough at a time, with your hands or with a rolling pin. (You can see the process step by step in the video below on how to roll out the sheets by hand.)
  7. We open 4 sheets of dough in each pie and every second sheet we add the filling we made and let it cool slightly.
  8. Close the pie in the shape of an envelope or in a triangle according to preference.
  9. Preheat the oven to 220°C and bake at 200°C for 20 minutes.

Notes

  • Before cutting and serving our pie, let it cool for about 10 minutes.