Bola De Carne - Portuguese Meat Pie
Total Time: 1 hr
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 6
- 2 cups milk, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon baker yeast
- 500 g flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 125 g margarine, melted
- 5 eggs
- 700 g chicken or 700 g lamb or 700 g beef, cooked and cut into pieces
- 100 g sausage, cooked and chopped
- 100 g smoked ham
- 1 egg yolk
Recipe
- 1 in a large bowl, dilute the yeast with the milk.
- 2 in another bowl, mix the flour, salt and melted margarine.
- 3 now add this to the diluted yeast, slowly so as not to make any lumps.
- 4 knead all together.
- 5 continue kneading as you add the whole eggs, one by one.
- 6 allow the dough to leaven in a warm place for 2 hours.
- 7 divide the dough into three parts.
- 8 roll out each part and cover the bottom of a greased baking tin with one of the parts.
- 9 cover that with half of the meat.
- 10 add another piece of pastry and again cover with meat.
- 11 finish with the last piece of pastry.
- 12 put in the oven for a short while.
- 13 the book says it should only go in the oven "to give it some consistence".
- 14 remove and brush the top with the egg-yolk.
- 15 place it again in a medium hot oven to bake.
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