Deep Dish Meat Pie

Name: Deep Dish Meat Pie
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Cuisine: Virgin Islands
Ingredients: 2 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped; 1 oz. unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon green bell pepper, seeded and chopped; 6 oz. lard, chilled and cut into small bits; cold water; 1 tablespoon flour; 3 tablespoons dry sherry; 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar; 1 pound lean minced beef; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley; 1 teaspoon salt; Freshly ground pepper to taste; 1 fresh hot red pepper, seeded and finely chopped, or 1 teaspoon hot dried red pepper, crumbled; 1 medium onion, finely chopped; ½ teaspoon dry mustard; ½ teaspoon thyme; 1 clove garlic, chopped; 1 tablespoon pimento-stuffed green olives, chopped; 10 oz. plain flour; ½ teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Serves
4 to 6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking

By Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz

Published 1973

About

Ingredients

Meat Filling

1 pound lean minced beef
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 fresh hot r

Americas
Virgin Islands
Main course
Pie
Caribbean

Method

Thoroughly mix together all the ingredients except the flour, mustard and sherry. Pack into a heavy 9-inch frying pan, cover, and cook over low heat for about half an hour. West Indians call this method ‘sweating’ actually the meat is steamed.

Mix the flour and mustard with a little water and stir into the meat mixture. Mix the meat thoroughly with its own pan liquid as it separates wit