French Meat Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 1/4 lbs ground beef
• 1/2 lb ground lamb
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 3 medium potatoes, cubed
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (to taste)
• 20 crackers (40 crackers in a sleeve)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon (i leave out the cinnamon now as my family didn't like it)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper (to taste)
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme, more to taste
• 1/4 teaspoon sage, more to taste
• 2 pie crusts (store bought or home made)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350*.
• 2 sauté ground beef and lamb with onions until no longer pink.
• 3 in another pan boil and mash potatoes with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
• 4 do not drain fat from ground meat mixture.
• 5 add crumbled soda crackers, cinnamon, thyme, sage and mix well, the crackers help absorb a lot of the moisture and gives it great taste and texture.
• 6 next add mashed potatoes and mix well. i cool this before putting in crust but it isn't necessary if your baking it right away.
• 7 use a deep dish 9 or 10 inch pie plate and line bottom with 1 crust.
• 8 fill crust and then place second crust over filling, press edges together to seal: cut slits in top crust.
• 9 bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown.
• 10 this recipe may be made ahead of time and baked later, up to 24 hours ahead as long as kept refrigerated.
• 11 also can be frozen after prepared for a later date.
• 12 i have started making this in 2 smaller foil pie pans and freeze one for another time. each pie feeds 4 or 2 with leftovers.