This week on mummybloggermakes we have Karly joining us to share one of her easy family friendly meals! I actually love this and planning in trying out her recipie Friday night. 

As you all know Friday I'm attending a Melbourne market so hopefully this is a quick easy and super yum meal for me to throw together once I'm home (: 

The Sweet Mama Life’s Easy Weeknight Pie

I’m no Martha Stewart. In fact, I’m probably the exact opposite! Our house is clean, but always untidy; I always manage to find a way to get lint on the washing; and I can’t cook to save my life. So I love it when I find a recipe that I can actually cook AND tastes delicious AND is a cheap weeknight meal for a family on a budget with a new baby. Easy, cheap, and delicious – who doesn’t love that!? The other thing I love about this recipe is that you can mix it up and add whatever ingredients take your fancy. I have provided the basic pie recipe with a few examples of how you can mix it up, but the choices really are endless!

Ingredients:

Method:

Preheat oven to 200°C.

Heat oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes.

Add mince and cook, stirring to break up lumps, for 3 minutes or until it changes colour.

Add tomato sauce, Worcestershire and 60ml (1/4 cup) of water and cook for 5 minutes or until sauce thickens.

Divide among four 300ml ovenproof dishes or ramekins.

Cut puff pastry to size and place over top of ramekin, pressing sides down gently with a fork. Brush with egg. Make a slit in the pastry top with the point of a knife. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Mix it up!

Serve pies with mashed potato and steamed vegetables for a healthy and hearty meal.

Add grated carrot and zucchini to the mince mixture for an extra dose of hidden nutrients for those fussy eaters.

Add some bacon when cooking off onion, and a layer of cheese between the meat and pastry for some cheese and bacon goodness.

Scrap the pastry and top your pie with some creamy mashed potato for Shepherd’s pie perfection!

Cook 300g frozen baby peas until soft and mash with a dollop of butter for those that love their pies with mushy peas.

You can find Karly on Instagram as @thesweetmamalife or on her blog thesweetmamalife.blogspot.com !