Deep Dish Meat Pie

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

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
Caribbean
Pie

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