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.