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

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook meat and potato pie (pastel de papas) using 19 ingredients and 33 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

Pastel de Papas (potato pie) is a typical Argentina dish with mashed potatoes and a meat filling. The filling is the same as traditional Argentine empanadas, so if you learn how to make one dish, you can easily make the other. Empty all the meat filling onto the potato layer. Then add the chopped hard boiled eggs on top.

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

Empty all the meat filling onto the potato layer. Then add the chopped hard boiled eggs on top. Add the meat mixture and cover with a layer of mashed potatoes. Paint the top with egg white. Top with the meat filling, followed by the remaining potato mash.

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