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Bauchi Nigeria

I baked this pie with my daughter a day before sallah😋 & we had it on the day of Eid!

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Ingredients

1 hour
4 people
  1. 2 cups flour
  2. 2 table spoon butter
  3. 1 egg
  4. Pinch salt
  5. 1/2 tea spoon baking powder
  6. Little water for dough
  7. Filling
  8. Shred chicken
  9. 3 scotch pepper
  10. 1 onion
  11. Seasonings
  12. 2 serving spoon oil

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Sift flour into a bowl, add salt, baking powder, butter & egg then add in little water to make a dough. Knead for 5 minutes until every thing is well incorporated & when you press a finger into the dough it goes back to its original shape.

  2. 2

    Then cover the dough & allow to rest for some minutes, before you finish making the filling. For the filling shred your cooked chicken add in grinded scotch pepper, red bell pepper & the sliced onions add into a pot on heat add the oil & fry add in the seasoning to your taste, I.e salt, maggi, curry & thyme.

  3. 3

    Stir every thing well until a filling is formed then off heat & remove from heat & go back to your dough cut it into 8 pieces or more or less depending on how you want it then roll each piece add in the filling use knife to make line/ cuts at the end of the dough then roll & close the filling & use water to pinch the edges so it wont wrap apart.

  4. 4

    Repeat the process with the remaining dough arrange in a baking tray lined with paper or baking paper pre-heat your oven before time. Bake until golden brown & dough turns into pie that is properly baked not raw then remove from oven, serve with hot tea or cold drink & enjoy😋😋😋

  5. 5

    This is my second caterpillar pie recipe I fry the first one & this is the baked type see link below👇🏻

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