MEAT and VEGGIE PASTRIES

In a medium frying pan on medium heat, add ground beef, olive oil and start to fry, then add chopped onions, beef oxo, black pepper and onion powder and continue frying until beef is browned.

Then add pressed or chopped garlic and continue to fry for a minute, add flour, toss through and add veggie broth and mix well together. “ lower heat “ until ready for the next step.

In a medium saucepan half full with water, start to boil, add sea salt, then peel and chop veggies, rinse with cold water or soak in a bowl for a few minutes. 

Drain and add to hot salted water, let continue to boil until tender.

Then drain veggie water to a bowl to use later, add veggies to the frying pan with fried ground beef and toss together. 

Add more veggie broth to have more sauce if needed, but not runny. Make pastry, see recipe below!

Pastry

Recipe:

2 cup white or wheat flour                              ½ cup Cold Butter

½ tsp salt                                                        ½ cup cold water

Method:

Mix flour, butter ( chop in pieces) and salt together in a bowl mix with your hand or food processor when mixed add water mix until it shapes into a ball then remove from bowl/mixer.

Put a piece of parchment paper on the counter and sprinkle with flour then cut the ball into 6 pieces then put your pastry ball on top of it then roll until about 6 inches long.

Double the recipe if you like to make more than 6 pastries and if you are using salted butter, don't add salt.

Make Meat & veggie pastry, after you have rolled out all the pastries, put one on the counter and add about 1/2 cup meat and veggie mixture on one side. 

Then flip over the other side and pinch together the ends.

Continue doing this with all pastry dough and meat mixture, then preheat your oven to 375ºF and set the timer to 40 minutes or less depending on your oven.

Place all pastries on a cookie sheet with parchment paper, grease tops of pastries and put in a preheated oven.

After baking, remove from the oven and serve with whatever side dish or top with gravy. Also let cool and wrap for school or work lunches, rewarm in microwave or eat cold.