Rainbow nation food.

Iam was quite amazed when my friend Zeenat told me her mom was following my blog ! I was thinking an Indian lady who cooks delicious food for her family taking down my recipes ?!......... I think I started to get very anxious cause I know that I really cannot compare with indian cooking ( I simply love indian food , must be in the blood , somewhere in the DNA ) , but Iam definitelly gona try some indian dishes (please send me some favourite recipes ) and post it to my blog , Insha Allah .Here I ve posted a mince pie recipe which the rainbow nation all love and enjoy !

On Freedom Day I asked my family what they would like between a home made steak gatsby or mince pie , almost instantly they shouted pie ! Even my three year old said " Mommy I lus for pie " , so off I went to buy a kilo piece of butter pastry and mince at Azeem 's butcher .

Recipe :
1 kilo pastry
Mince ( little less than a kilo )
Few peppercorns (5)
Few allspice (3)
3 onions
4 tablespoons of sago placed in a jug of water
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon jeero
1 teaspoon gharum masala
1 teaspoon steak and chops masala
1 teaspoon black pepper
3 hard boiled eggs
Ginger and garlic

Method;

Braise onions with peppercorns , allspice , ginger and garlic ( mix ) , until slightly brown and soft adding little water while braising .Now add mince and spices , cook for about ten minutes adding very little water , add the sago (drain off water from it ), cook mince till sago is transparent and water has evaporated .Take off from stove to cool.
Roll out the pastry( not too thick ) in a large oven tray ,when mince has cooled down a bit place it on top of the pastry and slice the hard boiled eggs over the mince. Cover the mince with the left over pastry (in fact a kilo piece would be over enough , you may still have a piece over which I made jam tart from ) , beat an egg and brush it on top of the pastry . Bake it in a pre heated oven 180 celsius for about half an hour ( slightly brown on top , not burnt ok ! ).
Had this with hot chips and tomato sauce , great .
It was " lekker , te lekker " ne ! Kids was fighting who was gona take the left overs to school the next day ! Unfortunately there was nothing left , inshallah next time gona make a chicken pie with chips ..............Great for a saturday lunch too. Enjoy your cooking !

Rushaan