Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, scouse pie. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Scouse is a type of thrifty meat stew, in this case made with lamb. Here Liverpool's finest stew is topped with a layer of puff pastry to make a homely pie. Try this Scouse Pie recipe by Chef Paul Hollywood.
Scouse pie is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Scouse pie is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook scouse pie using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Scouse pie:
- Get 400 g organic beef diced
- Take 300 g organic lamb diced
- Make ready 1 large onion
- Take 2-3 parsnips
- Prepare 2-3 carrots
- Make ready Black pepper
- Take Oxo cubes x2
- Prepare Worcestershire sauce
- Take 700 g potatoes cubed
- Get Pastry
- Prepare 225 g plain flour
- Make ready 1 egg yolk
- Get Dash salt
- Get 125 g butter
- Prepare 125 ml ice cold water (as required)
This is the traditional Liverpool stew recipe, as told to me by a genuine Scouser, about how to make Scouse. Homebaked are an Anfield based bakery and have a stall at the Christmas market selling scouse pies to raise money for Liverpool Homeless Football Club. Make blind scouse by leaving the meat out and more of the carrot and onion and also adding some chopped up swede and cabbage, savoy or white Both types of scouse are real winter comfort food! Scouse is a type of lamb or beef stew.
Steps to make Scouse pie:
- Chop onion finely and sautee in olive oil. Do not let it burn.
- Diced the meat to smaller cubes than I would use normally for the scouse. Sprinkle with ground black pepper and brown the meat. Splash with worcester sauce cook out and reserve with the softened onion
- Soften chopped carrot and parsnip a bit in leftover meat juices. Reserve with meat
- Dice 2 of the potatoes very finely. We want them to break up while cooking. Add to the slow cooker with rest of ingredients
- Top with cold water to cover potatoes. Add crumbled oxo cubes and cook on high for 2 hours
- After 2 hours add rest of potatoes chopped to the slow cooker. Reduce the heat to low and cook for further 3 hours. Stir and add a splash of Worcestershire sauce if you like
- Make a pastry mixing flour, butter, egg yolk and water in a bowl. Knead until dough soft and doesn't stick to the surface. Wrap in cling film and put in fridge for 40-50 minutes(or you can use ready made short crust pastry)
- Roll with rolling pin. Use 2/3 of the pastry to cover bottom of pie dish.
- Fill pie dish with cold left over scouse. Dampen edges a bit. Roll rest of the pastry and cover pie dish. You may want to press edges together by hand or with fork.
- Make a couple of holes to let air out so that pie doesn't explode. Brush a bit of beaten egg for shine
- Bake on medium oven 160°C for 30-40 minutes until golden brown
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