Pork Pie(New Year'S Kreatopita) - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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2 1/2 lb. pork loin, boned and ground once
2 small onions, grated
3/4 lb. butter
1 lb. pastry sheets
5 eggs
1/2 c. water
1 Tbsp. Minute tapioca
salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
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Place 1/4 pound butter, ground pork and onions in pan and brown.
Add water; continue to simmer for 45 minutes.
Set meat mixture aside to cool.
Beat the eggs slightly; add tapioca.
Mix well and fold into meat mixture.
Place 5 pastry sheets, buttering each, on bottom of 9 x 13-inch pan.
Cover with 1/2 of meat mixture; top with 5 more buttered pastry sheets.
Spread remaining meat mixture.
Sterilize \"good luck coin\" (a quarter or fifty-cent piece) and place among pastry sheets.
Place 5 buttered pastry sheets over last layer of meat mixture; pour remaining butter over entire \"kreatopita.\"
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