Beef and Potato pie

A delicious, quick pub-style meat pie that you can whip up from your food storage.

It’s hearty and filling, with a top layer of pillowy mashed potato.

This recipe uses:

Home-canned beef

Yield: 4 x 1 cup (300 g / 10 oz) servings

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Beef Pie

A delicious, quick pub-style meat pie that you can whip up from your food storage. It’s hearty and filling, with a top layer of pillowy mashed potato.

Course Main Course

Cuisine English

Keyword Beef

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 50 minutes minutes

Servings 4 1 cup (300 g / 10 oz) servings

Calories 461kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 1 litre jar home-canned beef (1 quart)
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon Maggi seasoning sauce (or Worcestershire sauce)
• 500 g mashed potato (leftover. Or made up from instant. 2 cups / 1 lb)
• 4 tablespoons egg white
• 4 tablespoons Parmesan (grated)
• ½ teaspoon onion powder
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• cooking spray

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Start oven heating to 200 C / 400 F.
• Drain the beef, putting the beef broth in a microwave-safe jug.
• Whisk the cornstarch into the beef broth.
• Add to the broth the liquid seasoning (Maggi, Worcestershire sauce, or anything else that strikes your fancy to add flavour to the gravy.)
• Zap in microwave on high for 1 minute.
• Remove from microwave, whisk, zap on high for another minute.
• Remove from microwave, fold in the beef chunks, zap on high for two minutes.
• Set beef mixture aside.
• Put the leftover mash in a microwave safe jug.
• Stir in the egg white, Parmesan cheese, onion powder and garlic powder,
• Zap in microwave on high for two minutes to heat.
• Spray a 2 litre / quart baking dish with cooking spray.
• Pour beef mixture in.
• Spread the potato mixture out on top in dollops to form a crust.
• Spray top potato crush with cooking spray to encourage browning (optional.) Or, dot with butter or marg.
• Bake at 200 C (400 F) for 25 to 30 minutes or until bubbling hot and crust has browned a bit.
• Serve piping hot.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 461kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 60g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 135mg | Sodium: 397mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g

Recipe notes

• Instead of cornstarch, you can use flour or the thickener of your choice.
• Instead of egg white, you could use two beaten whole eggs, or sour cream, or, just omit.
• Instead of leftover mashed potato, you could just make some up from instant mash potato flakes.
• Really, the seasoning of the potato mixture is just a suggestion. Feel free to improvise.
• If you have home-canned green beans or carrots, you could drain those and add them into the pie mixture.
• What to serve with this? Any cooked veg works great. A pint of Guinness would also not go amiss!
• Horseradish lovers might want to have some handy.

Nutrition

Serving size: 1 cup (300 g / 10 oz)

Per serving:

• 461 calories, 397 mg sodium
• Weight Watchers PointsPlus®:  11 points; SmartPoints®: 10 points.

* Nutrition info provided by MyFitnessPal

* PointsPlus™ and SmartPoints™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® registered trademarks.