Closed Pie/Pastel Tutup

Some morning I start my day by browsing recipe books or going online to find a recipe for lunch and dinner. Most of the time, I cook in the morning enough dishes to last until dinner. However, last saturday, I did not cook enough for lunch and dinner. Last Saturday, we were busy with our routine of exercising, sending Amanda to Chinese class and groceries shopping that we ended up having to dine out for lunch. When we came home, we were tired and hungry and no food to eat. Fortunately, I saw this recipe that required very little preparation (in my opinion since if I cook Indonesian food, I have lots of preparation to do). What I had to do was boiled three pieces of potatoes, three eggs, cut the carrots into cube and thawed green peas.
We call it Pastel Tutup in Indonesian which means literally Closed Pie in English. I hardly ate this in Indonesia as it was only appeared on certain occasions like gathering and parties.

This post is submitted for Monthly Mingle 29 : Healthy Family Meals hosted by What's Cooking Blog

Recipe for Closed Pie/Pastel Tutup

Ingredients :

3 potatoes
3 carrots
1/4 kg green peas
1 lbs of ground chicken/beef
3 hard-boiled egg - peeled - chopped
3 cloves garlic
Enough salt, pepper, nutmeg powder and sugar

2 tbsp cornstarch or all-purpose flour diluted with a little bit of water
1 egg

Directions :

1.Boiled potatoes until tender together with eggs. Mashed the potatoes, seasoned with salt, sugar, nutmeg, and pepper. Leave it cool.
2. Cut carrots into cubes, and chop the garlic finely.
3. Saute the garlic with little oil until fragrant and put in the ground meat and carrot, than the peas, seasoned with salt, sugar, pepper and nutmeg.
4. Add diluted flour and water, if you like soupy filling add more water. Cook it until all cooked, put it into a baking dish. Spread evenly.
5. Cut the eggs horizontally or cubed and arrange them on top of the filling.
6. Mix the cooled down mashed potato with 1 egg white and formed into a layer to close all the filling. Shape it according to the shape of the baking dish. Make sure you closed the surface of the pie.
7. Use a fork which already dip into 1 egg yolk to make a stripe pattern over the mashed potatoes.
8. Grill in the oven for 5 minutes or until it is golden brown.

Source : Komala Family

This dish is healthy as it has vegetable, protein and carbohydrate packed in one dish. Amanda and her father like it for its taste and I like it because it is healthy and easy to make.