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Mince and Cheese Pie

Name: Mince and Cheese Pie
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: New Zealand
Ingredients: 400g Ground Beef; 4 Frozen puff pastry sheet; 100g Melting Cheese; 1 Onion; 2 tsp Beef Bone Broth Base; 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce; 1 tbsp Ketchup; 2 tbsp All-Purpose Flour; 250ml Water; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 1 Egg

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⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Ground beef in gravy layered with cheese and baked — New Zealand's most popular pie.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

In New Zealand, the hand-held meat pie is a national snack, always on display at bakeries and even petrol stations. The mince and cheese pie — ground beef in gravy topped with cheese — is the perennial favorite. Pie culture is so rooted that a competition called the Pie Awards is held every year.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a town bakery in New Zealand, fresh pies line the morning display case as people in work clothes take them away in paper bags.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Ground Beef 400g
Frozen puff pastry sheet 4
Melting Cheese 100g
Onion 1
Beef Bone Broth Base 2 tsp
Worcestershire sauce 1 tbsp
Ketchup 1 tbsp
All-Purpose Flour 2 tbsp
Water 250ml
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch
Egg 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Fry the chopped onion and ground beef, sprinkle in the flour, and mix.
Add the water, stock powder, Worcestershire sauce, and ketchup, simmer 15 minutes until thick, and cool.
Line muffin tins with puff pastry, fill with the mince, and top with cheese.
Cover with the remaining pastry, press the edges, brush with beaten egg, and cut a slit in the center.
Bake at 200°C for 25–30 minutes until golden.

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