Hand Meat Pies
Chicken or ground beef hand meat pies with vegetables and puff pastry in the oven or air fryer are delicious grab and go meals kids love.
Servings: 8
Equipment
- 1 baking sheet
- 1 pan
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter or olive oil
- 4 tbsp minced garlic
- 1 small onion diced
- 1 carrot peeled and diced
- 1 celery diced
- 1 lb ground beef sausage or turkey
- 3/4 tsp salt and pepper
- 1.5 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1 1/4 c beef broth
- 1 potato peeled and diced
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 1/4 c frozen peas
- 1 package puff pastry defrosted
- 1 egg whisked for outside
Instructions
- Ground beef meat hand pies - In a large saucepan, melt the butter. Add the garlic, onion, carrot and celery. Cook until the vegetables start to soften, about 5 minutes. Then break apart the ground beef into the pan. Season with the salt and pepper. Stir and cook the meat and veggies together until no more pink is seen in the ground beef.
- Add rest of the seasonings, soy sauce and tomato paste. Stir together until combined. Then add in the flour, stirring again to coat everything evenly to thicken the sauce. Pour in the beef broth and diced potatoes. Stir together. Let cook for a few minutes.
- Then add the peas, thyme and rosemary. Stir everything once again and cook on medium low heat for 30 minutes or until the potatoes are tender and the sauce has thickened. Remove the mixture from the heat and let cool completely.
- While this cools, remove the puff pastry from the freezer to unthaw. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper. Once the pastry sheets have thawed and the shepherd's mixture has cooled, prepare the hand pies.
- Place on a sheet of the puff pastry on a clean surface. Roll out slightly with a rolling pin. Cut six rectangular squares out from the sheet, Use a pizza cutter or sharp knife to follow the indentations already in the puff pastry sheet (if using Pepperidge Farms brand). Then cut evenly in half perpendicular to the initial cuts.
- Fill the center of each rectangle with the meat filling, leaving about a half an inch of space from the edge of the pastry sheet. In a small bowl whisk an egg together for the egg wash. Brush the sides of the pastry sheet around the meat filling.
- Roll out of the other pastry sheet. Place on top of the meat filling and press the corners together. Then press the sheet down between each hand pie cut section. Repeat the cutting process of the pastry sheet, following the first sheet as a guide.
- Transfer the hand pies to the prepared baking sheet. Use a fork to crimp the edges of each pie and seal the pastries. Brush everything with the egg wash.
- Hand Pies in the Oven - Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Place in the oven and let bake for about 20 minutes or until the hand pies have puffed up and are a beautiful golden brown. Remove from the oven and let them cool for about 10 minutes. Then enjoy!
- Air Fryer Meat Hand Pies - OR bake in preheated air fryer bake at 340 F for 7-8 minutes or until tops are golden brown.
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Nutrition
Serving: 2oz | Calories: 528kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 19g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 64mg | Sodium: 844mg | Potassium: 308mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 1420IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 38mg | Iron: 3mg