Italian Meat Sauce Filo Pie

Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe using Filo Pastry - I really love pasta but unfortunately my husband does not enjoy eating it, so I have taken a classic Italian recipe and made it into a pie using layers of Filo pastry and making a traditional pasta sauce.  I call this my Spag Bog Pie.  I can guarantee its really tasty and very simple to make but looks really impressive and of course if it tastes so fantastic then what more can I say, Dolce Vita Cook! I do tend to cook our pies in small pie dishes rather than using a large dish.  I just find for presentation this always looks really nice.  I also like to serve this with a selection of vegetables and a nice dark green cabbage goes really nice and I also served with buttered carrots.  The juice that is left you can just add some cream to make a delicious sauce to serve with the vegetables.
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Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe

A delicious alternative to spaghetti bolognese

Author: Nola Baldwin

Cuisine: Italian

Recipe type: Dinner

Serves: 4

Prep time:  15 mins

Cook time:  40 mins

Total time:  55 mins

Ingredients

• 1 pkt of Filo Pastry
• 500g lean ground mixed beef
• 1 Jar of Passata or Tin of Tomatoes
• 1 tbsp soft brown sugar
• 1 tsp of salt and black pepper or to taste
• 1 tsp oregano
• 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
• 1 Onion chopped small
• 1 Garlic Clove – use a garlic press or chop finely
• 1 chicken oxo cube
• mushrooms
• mix of cheese – Mozzarella, Cheddar, Lancashire
• butter
• double cream

Instructions

1. Using a large saucepan brown the meat
2. Add the onion and garlic and stir thoroughly
3. Add the Passata and stir through
4. Add the sugar, salt and ketchup and oxo cube
5. Bring to the boil and then turn down leave a lid on for 15 mins to simmer slowly.
6. Check the taste
7. Lay your Filo pastry over your pie dishes and then spoon the meat mixture into the dishes add some juice but not too much. I always hold some back to make a gravy and then top with your pastry.
8. Add your slices of mushrooms and cheese
9. Then make sure the pastry is layered over the meat, mushrooms and cheese.
10. I used melted butter with a pastry brush for each layer of Filo Pastry. So lay them down then brush with melted butter.
11. Then cook in a preheated oven at 200°C about 40 mins or until nice and crispy