Party Pies (Aussie Mini Beef Pies / Meat Pies) Recipe

There’s few meals extra quintessentially Aussie than Celebration Pies! They made an look at each birthday celebration I attended as a child…. and plenty of as an grownup! 😂 Home made is a gazillion instances higher than the frozen retailer purchased ones. Tender beef filling with a pie gravy inside flaky pastry – it’s your dream come true!

Celebration Pies

“Basic Aussie meat pies – in mini type made in muffin tins!”

Within the lead as much as Australia Day on 26 January 2015, I’m going to share a collection of basic Aussie fare. And I can’t consider something extra quintessentially “Aussie” than meat pies. Meat pies are to Australians what scorching canine are to Individuals. You possibly can’t go to a footy sport right here with out being surrounded by blokes (and a few lasses….) boisterously cheering on their groups with a pie in a single hand and a beer within the different. Crumbs down their shirt, tomato sauce smeared round their mouth….I’m portray a cultured image of Aussie blokes, aren’t I??!

OK, so I’m exaggerating a wee bit. Not all Aussie blokes are like that. However you get the image. 🙂

Each time I’ve a pie, I’m reminded of childhood outings to locations just like the zoo and aquarium the place we’d be handled with a pie for lunch. My brother, sister and I might sit, lined up on a bench (or, extra seemingly, simply sit on the bottom someplace), peel off the pastry lid, combine tomato sauce (ketchup) into the filling and impatiently look forward to it to chill down sufficient so we might begin digging in. We’d eat the filling with a plastic spoon which was not solely sensible, but additionally meant we acquired to avoid wasting one of the best for final – the pastry.

I nonetheless eat my pies with a spoon. In personal. 🙂

The pies you sometimes get at footy video games and bakeries are the bigger dimension ones – round 10cm/4″ in diameter. However I’m notably keen on get together pies – small ones which are made in muffin tins reasonably than having to get particular pie tins to make the bigger ones. Plus they’re simpler to eat with no plate.

Although this recipe is very easy to make, it does take time. Truthfully, the primary time I made this I used to be a bit cynical about whether or not it might be definitely worth the effort. As a result of you may get actually nice high quality get together pies these days, not solely from the grocery store but additionally from bakeries.

I swear to you, it’s definitely worth the effort. So. Dang. Good. And it tastes actual. I can by no means describe it precisely. I assume it’s the flavour of preservative-free meals? I don’t know. All I do know is that it’s definitely worth the effort.