Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, scouse pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Scouse pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Scouse pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Scouse is a type of thrifty meat stew, in this case made with lamb. Here Liverpool's finest stew is topped with a layer of puff pastry to make a homely pie. The city of Liverpool is situated at the mouth of the River Mersey as it meets the Irish sea in North West England. Scouse is a type of thrifty meat stew, in this case made with lamb.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have scouse pie using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Scouse pie:
- Take 400 g organic beef diced
- Get 300 g organic lamb diced
- Make ready 1 large onion
- Take 2-3 parsnips
- Make ready 2-3 carrots
- Get Black pepper
- Get Oxo cubes x2
- Make ready Worcestershire sauce
- Take 700 g potatoes cubed
- Prepare Pastry
- Take 225 g plain flour
- Prepare 1 egg yolk
- Get Dash salt
- Get 125 g butter
- Take 125 ml ice cold water (as required)
Basically small bites of beef with potatoes and veggies in a thickened sauce covered by a pastry sheet. In the old days these poor people were called the scousers, this the name of the pie. Fairly filling and tasted pretty good especially you add the accompanied. Alternatively, try to recreate the special club recipe by following the instructions below.
Instructions to make Scouse pie:
- Chop onion finely and sautee in olive oil. Do not let it burn.
- Diced the meat to smaller cubes than I would use normally for the scouse. Sprinkle with ground black pepper and brown the meat. Splash with worcester sauce cook out and reserve with the softened onion
- Soften chopped carrot and parsnip a bit in leftover meat juices. Reserve with meat
- Dice 2 of the potatoes very finely. We want them to break up while cooking. Add to the slow cooker with rest of ingredients
- Top with cold water to cover potatoes. Add crumbled oxo cubes and cook on high for 2 hours
- After 2 hours add rest of potatoes chopped to the slow cooker. Reduce the heat to low and cook for further 3 hours. Stir and add a splash of Worcestershire sauce if you like
- Make a pastry mixing flour, butter, egg yolk and water in a bowl. Knead until dough soft and doesn't stick to the surface. Wrap in cling film and put in fridge for 40-50 minutes(or you can use ready made short crust pastry)
- Roll with rolling pin. Use 2/3 of the pastry to cover bottom of pie dish.
- Fill pie dish with cold left over scouse. Dampen edges a bit. Roll rest of the pastry and cover pie dish. You may want to press edges together by hand or with fork.
- Make a couple of holes to let air out so that pie doesn't explode. Brush a bit of beaten egg for shine
- Bake on medium oven 160°C for 30-40 minutes until golden brown
Fairly filling and tasted pretty good especially you add the accompanied. Alternatively, try to recreate the special club recipe by following the instructions below. The star of the show though was defiantly the scouse pie. Wow, what a plate of food! Pie crust was light, pie was packed with juicy tender lamb, it was very well seasoned and came with a jug of onion gravy and fantastic tasting chips!
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