Best 5 Mini Shrimp Pies Recipes

MINI SHEPHERD'S PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a large skillet, cook and crumble beef with onion and garlic over medium heat until no longer pink, 5-7 minutes; drain. Stir in chili sauce and vinegar. , In a small saucepan, combine water, cream cheese and butter; bring to a boil. Remove from heat; stir in potato flakes., Separate biscuits; press each onto bottom and up sides of a greased muffin cup. Fill with beef mixture; top with mashed potatoes. Sprinkle with potato chips. , Bake until topping is golden brown, 20-25 minutes. If desired, sprinkle with paprika.Freeze option: Freeze cooled pies in a single layer in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Reheat on a baking sheet in a preheated 375° oven until heated through, 15-18 minutes.

IMPOSSIBLY EASY SHRIMP PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Spray 9-inch glass pie plate with cooking spray. Layer shrimp, onions, basil and cheese in pie plate.
• In medium bowl, stir remaining ingredients until blended. Pour into pie plate.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until top is golden brown and knife inserted in center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

MINI SHRIMP PIES

Steps:

• For Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, blend butter and cream cheese until well combined.
• Cut in the flour with a fork.
• Divide dough into 6 balls.
• Chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Grease a 6-cup jumbo muffin tins with butter or nonstick cooking spray.
• Pat each of the chilled dough balls into each muffin cup.
• Bake for approximately 8 minutes, or until golden brown.
• For Filling: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and stir in flour.
• Slowly blend in half-and-half, stirring constantly.
• The sauce should be thick; do not brown the sauce.
• Add mushroom soup, sliced mushrooms, Parmesan, and egg.
• Stir to combine.
• Fold in shrimp.
• Add garlic powder, to taste.
• Pour mixture into pie crusts.
• Top with buttered bread crumbs.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until brown and bubbly.
• Let pies cool for 10 minutes before removing from muffin tin.
• Garnish each with sprig of parsley.

MINI SHEPHERD'S PIES

Steps:

• PREPARING THE PIE FILLING: Heat a large non-stick pan; add the onion, garlic, leek, mushrooms and minced lamb/ground lamb and cook until the lamb is browned; drain any excess juices from the pan; stir in the tomato paste (or dried Australian Bush Tomatoes) diced tomatoes lemon juice and pine nuts, if using; season with pepper and salt; bring to the boil; boil, uncovered, for 5 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened; transfer to a large bowl; cover and refrigerate until cold.
• PREPARING AND FILLING THE PASTRY CASES: Using an 8cm-wide/3 inch cutter cut out 9 rounds from each pastry sheet - 45 rounds in all; place the rounds on a flat surface and flatten slightten slighten slighly with a rolling pin; place the rounds about 3cm /11/4 inches apart, on oven trays lined with baking paper; spoon 1 tablespoon of the lamb mixture in the centre of each round, leaving a 1cm/1/2 inch pastry edge; fold up the edges of the pastry, overlapping the folds tightly to secure the filling.
• PREHEAT THE OVEN to 200°C/400°F/6 gas mark.
• MAKING AND ADDING THE POTATO TOPPING: Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl; spoon the potato topping into a large piping bag fitted with a 1 cm/1/2 inch fluted nozzle; pipe small rosettes on top of each pastry round to partially cover the mince filling; drizzle the potato and pastry with the melted butter.
• COOKING THE MINI SHEPHERD PIES: Cook the Mini Shepherd Pies in a hot oven (200°C/400°F/6 gas mark) for about 20 minutes, or until the pastry is golden brown.
• SERVING THE MINI SHEPHERD PIES: Garnish the pies with fresh chives and serve hot.
• NOTES: If you have any filling left over, save it for making a toasted sandwich. If you have made these Shepherd's Pies ahead, reheat them in a hot oven for 15 minutes before serving them. The dicarded coarse leaves from the leek and any excess tomato juice can be saved for making Recipe #135453.

MINIATURE SHEPHERD'S PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. In a large skillet, cook beef, onion, celery and carrot over medium heat until beef is no longer pink; drain. Stir in flour, thyme, salt, nutmeg and pepper until blended; gradually add broth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until sauce is thickened. Stir in peas; heat through. Set aside., Unfold puff pastry. Using a floured 2-1/4-in. round cutter, cut 12 circles from each sheet (save scraps for another use). Press circles onto the bottoms and up the sides of ungreased miniature muffin cups., Fill each with 1-1/2 teaspoons beef mixture; top or pipe with 1 tablespoon mashed potatoes. Bake 13-16 minutes or until heated through and potatoes are lightly browned. Serve warm.