Far Eastern Pie

Name: Far Eastern Pie
Yield: Serves 6–7
Ingredients: sea salt; 3 cm piece of ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 2 rounded tsp ground coriander seeds; 500 g spinach, stalks removed; 1 rounded tsp ground cinnamon; 4 tsp garlic cloves, finely chopped; 40 g ground rice; 2 tbsp desiccated coconut; 1 tsp ground turmeric; 500 ml whole milk; 400 ml coconut milk; 2–3 pinches of hot chilli powder; juice of ½ lemon; 700 g beef mince; 50 g butter

Preparation info

Serves
6–7

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Marvellous Meals with Mince

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 2012

About

When I first made this pie you could not buy tinned coconut milk so I had to invent a laborious method of boiling fresh coconut in milk. Thankfully there is no need for that now! If possible always use whole spices and grind them yourself – they are far more aromatic.

Ingredients

500 g spinach, stalks removed
sea salt
50 g butter</

Method

Plunge the spinach into a saucepan of boiling salted water for a minute, or until the leaves go limp. Drain and press out any liquid. Roughly chop the leaves.

Heat 25 g of the butter in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the coriander, cinnamon and turmeric and cook for no more than