Beef mini meat pies

original post:http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2014/09/beefy-button-top-mini-pies.html

Ingredients

Beef patty filling

½ onions

3 cloves garlic

7 scallion stalks

1 teaspoon allspice berries

1 teaspoon thyme leaves

¼ cup water

1 lb beef

¾ teaspoon salt

1 ½ teaspoon sugar

¼ teaspoon black pepper

¼ teaspoon smoked paprika

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 ½ tablespoon oil

1 cup beef stock

8 blended crackers

1 teaspoon browning

Crust

1 Pillsbury pizza dough mix

½ cup Hot water

Oil for brushing

Instructions

Beef filling

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees
Prepare the pizza dough and set aside
Blend together onion, garlic, scallion, allspice berries, thyme leaves, and water
In a dish lightly mix the ground beef, salt, sugar, black pepper, paprika and cayenne pepper
In a deep pot heat the oil add the beef and sauté for a few minutes until all the beef has started to cook
Once there is no red left in the beef add the blended onion mixture and the crackers cover over a low flame and allow to cook for 3 minutes
Stir in the beef stock, cover and allow to cook again for another 5 minutes. The beef could be creamy and have a green/grayish tint
Remove from the heat and thoroughly mix in the browning to get a really nice color on the beef filling
Set aside to cool

Assemble

Greedy tips

I prefer using crackers as opposed to breadcrumbs because I find the blended crackers give a creamy texture to the filling. Bread crumbs to me soaks up all the moisture and adds nothing to the beef filling.
Don’t worry if the tops raise a bit from the bottom crust