Best Italian Pot Pies Recipes

ITALIAN POT PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees, with rack in lowest position. In a large skillet, heat oil over medium. Add onion and carrots; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Add beef, and cook, breaking up meat with a wooden spoon, until no longer pink, 3 to 5 minutes. Add tomato sauce; bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and cook, stirring occasionally, until meat mixture has thickened, 8 to 10 minutes; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk flour, Parmesan, baking powder, rosemary, and 1/2 teaspoon salt; make a well in center, and add butter and milk. Stir just until dough comes together.
• Spoon meat mixture into four 8-ounce ramekins; mound dough on top. Place on a large rimmed baking sheet; bake until topping is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in topping comes out clean, 10 to 12 minutes.

ITALIAN POT PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• In a large skillet, heat oil and add chopped onion and carrots.
• Saute until vegetables are tender. Add ground beef and continue frying until meat is no longer pink.
• Add garlic and cook until fragrant.
• Add seasonings/sauce and mix.
• Cook until thickened. approximately 10 minutes.
• Spoon mixture into 4 8 oz. ramekins.
• Set aside.
• In mixing bowl whisk together the dry ingredients.
• Make a well in the centre and add the wet ingredients.
• Combine just until moistened.
• Mound spoonfuls of dough on top of the ramekins.
• Place on rimmed baking sheet.
• Place in oven and bake 10-12 minutes.
• Test doneness with toothpick.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE POT PIES

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 375°. Grease four 10- to 12-ounce casseroles. Cook sausage, onion and bell pepper in 10-inch skillet over medium heat, stirring frequently, until sausage is no longer pink drain. Stir in mushrooms and pizza sauce. Heat to boiling reduce heat. Simmer uncovered 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Spoon sausage mixture into casseroles. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the cheese over each.2. Stir Bisquick and boiling water beat vigorously 20 strokes. Place dough on surface sprinkled with Bisquick gently roll in Bisquick to coat. Shape into a ball knead about 10 times or until smooth.3. Divide dough into 4 balls. Pat each ball into circle the size of the diameter of the casseroles. Make cut in each circle with knife to vent steam. Place circles on sausage mixture in casseroles. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until light golden brown.HIGH ALTITUDE (3500 to 6500 feet): Bake 22 to 25 minutes.NUTRITION FACTS: 1 Serving: Calories 520 (Calories from Fat 295) Fat 33g (Saturated 12g) Cholesterol 80mg Sodium 1540mg Carbohydrate 29g (Dietary Fiber 2g) Protein 28g % DAILY VALUE: Vitamin A 8% Vitamin C 28% Calcium 28% Iron 16% DIET EXCHANGES: 2 Starch 3 High-Fat Meat 1 1/2 FatBETTY'S TIP: For a special holiday treat, use a small cookie cutter to cut a festive shape out of the dough circle before putting it on the sausage mixture. For itty-bitty pastry treats, place the cut-outs on a cookie sheet and bake in a 375° oven about 15 minutes or until light golden brown.From "Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook." Text Copyright 2000 General Mills, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.