Meat Pie with a twist

For yesterday´s dinner I decided to make Meat Pie (we call it "Empadão"), a dish of my childhood. This was the dish I liked the most when I was in the kindergarten. If I liked that much, I thought my son would like it too :)

This meat pie isn´t nothing more than mashed potatoes with stewed beef. I did everything with the thermomix and followed their recipe, which you can be easily made without the machine.

Why Meat Pie with a twist? Because I didn´t have white wine at home and replaced it by  coconut milk, giving the dish a more Asian flavor. It worked perfectly!

Ingredients

- 400 gr of minced beef
- 1 onion
- 3 clovers of garlic
- 1 bay leaf
- olive oil
- parsely
- 100 gr of tomato or tomato paste
- 50 gr of white wine (which I replaced by coconut milk)
- salt and pepper
- parsley

For the mashed potatoes, you can should to follow your normal recipe or this one from thermomix.

- 1kg of potatoes
- 350 gr of milk
- 50 gr of butter
- salt and nutmeg 

To prepare the meat, first chop the onion and the garlic thinly and brown then in the olive oil, also with the bay leaf.  Then, add the meat, tomato, wine, salt and pepper, and let it cook for about 10 to 15 minutes. The meat is supposed to dry out or it will soak the mashed potatoes later on. Add the parsley chopped before removing the meat from the stove and remove the bay leaf. The meat is ready, set it aside.

For the mashed potatoes, cook them in the milk and mash them about 30 minutes later. After that, add the butter and nutmeg.

Now you just have to prepare the tray: first one layer of potatoes, all the meat next, and another layer of potatoes. Brush the top with egg yolk. Then pop the tray into the oven at 180º for about 20 minutes, until the top becomes golden.

Ready to serve... the kids will like this recipe!