Meat and Potato Pie (Pastel de Papas)
Meat and Potato Pie (Pastel de Papas)

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, meat and potato pie (pastel de papas). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Place the potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water. Great recipe for Meat and Potato Pie (Pastel de Papas). This recipe is delicious, the mixture of the juices of the meat filling with the touch of paprika combined with nutmeg in the puree, give it an unparalleled flavor and make this an exquisite and tasty dish that everyone would love to eat.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have meat and potato pie (pastel de papas) using 19 ingredients and 33 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Meat and Potato Pie (Pastel de Papas):
  1. Prepare Potato puree:
  2. Take 2.2 pounds white potatoes
  3. Make ready 8 tablespoons butter (4 oz.) (room temperature)
  4. Take Salt and pepper (to taste)
  5. Prepare 100 ml milk (room temperature)
  6. Make ready 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
  7. Get 2 egg yolks
  8. Get 1 egg
  9. Take Meat Filling:
  10. Get 1.8 oz ground beef
  11. Get 2 big onions chopped
  12. Take 1 big red bell pepper chopped
  13. Prepare 2 garlic cloves chopped
  14. Get 1 tablespoon paprika
  15. Take 1/2 tablespoon ground cumin
  16. Prepare 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  17. Get 1 cube beef bouillon
  18. Get 8 tablespoons crushed tomatoes
  19. Get 4 boiled eggs chopped

Use a fork to press a pattern into the entire surface of the potatoes. Pastel de papa is like a Latin American version of shepherd's pie. Depending on the type of chilli pepper you use, you can make this dish spicy or mild. Sometimes I also add raisins to the mince.

Steps to make Meat and Potato Pie (Pastel de Papas):
  1. Potato puree ingredients:
  2. Preparation:
  3. Peel the potatoes, wash and cut in fourths
  4. In a cacerole put water, potatoes and salt, cook it in high temperature until boils, lower the heat and let it simmer for 15 minutes or until tender, put the potatoes in a colander to drain the water
  5. Place it in a large bowl
  6. Add butter
  7. Mash the potatoes until you achieve the consistency of a puree
  8. Add salt and pepper to taste, mix
  9. Add milk, mix
  10. Add nutmeg
  11. Eggs
  12. Mix well, set a side
  13. Meat Filling ingredients:
  14. Preparation:
  15. In a small pot, boil the eggs, let it cool and chop, set a side
  16. Put oil in a large skillet and heat it to a medium temperature
  17. Add onions, red bell peppers and cook it until onions are translucent
  18. Add garlic cloves cook it for 2 minutes
  19. Add paprika, ground cumin, cayenne pepper
  20. Beef bouillon cube (crush), mix well
  21. Add the ground beef
  22. Mix well, cook it for 10 minutes
  23. Add the crushed tomatoes
  24. Mix, cook it for 5 minutes, taste to adjust the salt
  25. Mix the chopped eggs with the meat filling
  26. To arrange the Pie:
  27. Preheat the oven at 375 degrees fahrenheit
  28. In an oven dish, sprayed with cooking oil
  29. Lay 1 cm layer of potato mixture
  30. Empty all the meat filling onto the potato layer, spread the mixture evenly
  31. Cover it with another layer of potato, wich should be almost equal to the layer of beef filling
  32. Make waves on the top of the potato layer with a fork so that it toasts a little
  33. Place it in the oven and cook it for 30 minutes on bake and then 4 minutes on broil

The Argentinian "Pastel De Papas" is both an easy and delicious recipe I learned from the locals. It's basically a mashed potato pie with minced meat and raisins; easy to make and perfect for the colder autumn and winter months! Also known as Chilean potato pie, the main ingredients are simple: potatoes, eggs, and ground beef. It is popular in both Argentina and Chile, and there are many variations. Here is a basic one for you to try.

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