Roast Lamb Pies - Pie Maker- By Stacey

We all love a kitchen appliance until it gets delegated to the back of the cupboard and never heard from again. 

When I was given my pie maker I was pie crazy I made every kind of pie breakfast pies, left overs pies, sweet pies, potato pies, egg pies, spaghetti pies and well you get the gist. 

This week after a year long vacation to the back of the cupboard the pie maker was out and about with my brand new invention " The Roast Lamb Pie" 

I had the inspiration for this pie when at the supermarket I came across very cheap lamb meat - stewing cuts very boney but the price was right. 

I decided to put these in the slow cooker and use roast lamb flavours so I tossed the meat in flour first  then added cut up 500g potatoes (add other veggies too such as carrot, pumpkin parsnip), 1 brown onion, splash of red wine, crushed garlic, chopped rosemary, tablespoon tomato paste, 1 table spoons of beef stock & 2 cups water salt and pepper to taste- cook on low for about 7 hours. 
(Now there is a school of thought that when you use the slow cooker or roast meat you should brown all meat first in a fry pan...pfft forget that it basically takes the whole convenience away from the process. So no I never brown my meat or fry off my recipes first and its never failed me. So I leave it up to your own preference and time wasting ability weather to brown off first). 

Then as per pie maker instructions -short crust pastry at the bottom and puff pastry at top - If you don't have a pie maker just at this stage use a pie tin and do it in the oven instead. 

mouth watering Lamb Roast Pie

I think my next test flavour pie will be the lamb Greek roast flavour pie

....mmmm yum stay tuned