Tony’s Pasties (meat pie)

One baked pasty.

Ingredients

  • Pie dough 
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 1/2 yellow onion
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 pkg shredded potatoes
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • 1 egg

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a big bowl, combine beef, onion, carrots, potatoes, and add salt & pepper (do not pre-cook filling).

Separate into 3 even portions.

Roll out dough to create 3 meat pies. 

Add beef mixture to the center of each piece of dough.

Fold dough over beef mixture and pinch the edges together.

Brush dough with the raw egg.

Bake for 50 minutes.

Tony, a resident, placing a filling in rolled out dough.

From the kitchen of resident Tony B. at The Watermark at Cherry Hills

“We used to go to a place in Montana that made great pasties. We would go get some and have family meals. My daughters still call me when they make pasties. I taught Kelly, our Community Life Director how to make them. We made them for the Watermark U cooking class.”