Christmas Meat Pie with Baked Pastry Chips

Give your Christmas diner a sense of opulence by offering this exquisite pie as first course.

Ingredients

• 1 egg, preferably organic
• 1/2 teacup of extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teacup of lukewarm water
• (quantity depends on the consistency of the mixture) plain flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• For the filling
• 1½k lamb
• 4 red onions, whole
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
• salt
• freshly ground pepper

Method

Rinse the meat well. Boil the meat along with the onions until it becomes tender. Remove the onions with the help of a slotted spoon and place them in a bowl (they must be really well cooked). Drain the meat and dice it into bite-sized portions. Set aside to cool.
For the pastry:  Place all the ingredients in a large bowl, knead until you have a smooth dough and leave it aside to rest for a while. Divide the dough into 4 equal parts and roll each out to a sheet. Bake the 4 pastry sheets for 10 minutes, at 200ºC. When they are cool, break them into large chips inside a large, oil coated baking pan. Scatter the meat and the onions over the baked chips. Whisk the egg with some of the meat stock, season with salt and pepper and pour it over the pie.
Add as much meat stock as you need to cover the pastry chips (add some kefalotiri cheese, if you like) and bake the pie at 180ºC, for approximately 1h.

Courtesy of Mrs Anghela Vassiliou from Arta
 
Source: argiro.com.gr