Argentinian pie

Argentinian Pie

Recipe: Argentinian Pie
Serve 4 - 6

Ingredients:

1 kg onion, diced
1 kg minced beef
1 1/2 capsicum (red, green and yellow), diced
1 carrot, diced
1/2 can corn (whole kernels)

Method:

* Fry onion till soft and add mince beef, mix and cook well

* Add carrot, capsicum and corn

* Add salt, pepper, paprika

* Fry everything till cook (add more paprika for more heat)
* Keep aside

Mash potatoes

Ingredients:

1 kg potatoes, peeled and boiled

milk
1 tablespoon butter
sweet basil
salt, pepper
3 eggs, hard-boiled and diced
200gm Cheddar cheese, grated
paprika


* Mash the hot potatoes with milk, butter, salt, pepper and sweet basil

To assemble the pie:
* Use a oven-proof dish
* Fill 1/4 full with half of the cooked beef, then half of the mashed potatoes, spread a layer of the eggs on the mash, then the rest of the beef and finally, top it off with the rest of the potatoes (1st: beef; 2nd: mash; 3rd: eggs; 4th: beef; last: mash)
* spread the grated cheese evenly on top, leave some cheese for last.
* preheat oven 200 degrees
* Bake for 20-25 minutes
* Spread on the rest of cheese 5 minutes before taking the pie out. Sprinkle paprika on pie.
* Serve with bread and salad

Must apologise for being so sketchy in putting the recipe across but hope we'll get better as this is the first time we've done this. We hope you will be able to make out what we are trying to say and give it a try. It is delicious.


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