Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, natchitoches meat pies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Natchitoches Meat Pies is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Natchitoches Meat Pies is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook natchitoches meat pies using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Natchitoches Meat Pies:
- Make ready 3 lbs ground chuck
- Take 1.5 lbs ground pork
- Take 1 cup finely diced yellow onion
- Take 5 green onions, finely chopped
- Take 1 green bell pepper, finely chopped
- Take to taste Salt, pepper, and garlic powder
- Get Crust
- Make ready 8 cups flour
- Make ready 1 cup, plus 3 Tablespoons shortening
- Get 2 t baking powder
- Make ready 2 t salt
- Take 2 cups milk
- Prepare 4 beaten eggs
Steps to make Natchitoches Meat Pies:
- In a large pan, place ground chuck, ground pork, onions, and seasonings. Cook until browned and then drain. Set aside.
- Mix dry ingredients for crust.
- Cut in shortening. Mix in milk and eggs.
- Put some flour down on a flat surface and roll out the dough. You don’t want it to be too thick or thin. Too thin and it will tear while folding the pies over. Too thick and there will be too much crust to filling ratio. Work with it and you’ll know when it’s right.
- Pick something circular and place it on the dough to trace around. I use one of my kid sized plates. It’s maybe 7-8” across. Now you’re ready to fill the crust circle with filling.
- Place meet filling in a crescent shape inside the crust circle. Careful not to get it around the edges or the oils will make it hard for edges to seal.
- Fold the crust circle over in half and crimp the edges closed with fork prongs.
- To cook, place on a greased baking sheet and coat the top in melted butter. Cook for 22-25 minutes at 350 degrees in the oven.
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