Makes these delicious meat pies using a pie maker! Easy pie maker aussie meat pie with step-by-step photos.
Granted, I do most of my shopping online anyway, and almost always late at night after the kids have gone to bed. But having so far endured 8 weeks of working from home, plus homeschooling two children, plus cooking two meals a day, I felt I could use some help in the kitchen. These pies take only 10 minutes to cook in a pie maker. No need to blind bake the pastry, which means you can make and serve the pies more quickly. Mini pies have a greater pastry to filling ratio, which means more delicious pastry! Easy as Pie I love to make my Aussie Meat Pies or Classic Meat Pies when the craving calls.
But anyone who makes pies regularly will know that it can be a time-consuming task. A good meat pie always has a crispy bottom, which is best achieved by blind-baking the pastry first, which means a good 15-30 minutes just for this step. With a pie maker, you can skip the blind-baking! Omitting this task means that making pies has never been easier! A beef meat pie filling is typically a beef stew of some sort, but with a thicker sauce so that the filling doesn’t run everywhere, particularly since meat pies are usually eaten on-the-go with the hands. It goes without saying that almost any stew can be turned into a meat pie. Beef Bourguignon meat pies are very popular in my family!
The pie maker recipe below uses the same beef and Guinness filling as that for my Classic Meat Pies. It’s a classic and comforting beef stew which uses stout to give that familiar bakery flavour. Pie Maker Recipe For pie maker recipes, I like to use puff pastry for both the bottom and lid. I find it more practical and economical to use just one type of pastry when making mini pies. But you could, of course, go the traditional route and use shortcrust pastry for the bottom and puff pastry for the lid.
While the pie maker is heating up, cut out the pastry for the pie bottoms and lids. I recommend only cutting out as many as you need to fit the pie maker, and to cut any additional pastry whilst you are waiting for the pies to cook. Refer to the manufacturer’s instructions to find out the dimensions you need to cut for the pie bottoms and lids. For my pie maker, the bottoms are 11 cm and the lids are 9.
