Do you come from the land down beneath? When you do, then your meat pies most likely look and style a bit totally different from different pies. There are numerous dishes from many cultures’ cookbooks that may very well be categorised as a meat pie, comparable to pot pie, shepherd’s pie, and even quiche. However few of the savory pies from around the globe style fairly like an Australian meat pie, whose distinctive taste could be attributed to the nation’s most infamous meals product: Vegemite. 

This ominous, darkish brown unfold actually has a stigma connected to it, however maybe that is as a result of if you happen to do not dwell in Australia, you do not know precisely what Vegemite is and what it tastes like. Vegemite is a thick, savory paste constituted of a mix of yeast extract left over from beer manufacturing, vegetable extract, and malt extract from barley. It’s salty, bitter, and harking back to concentrated soy sauce. As a result of its taste is so sturdy, solely a small quantity is required in an Australian meat pie — about one tablespoon per 4 servings. This, together with floor or diced beef, chopped onions, tomato paste, and Worcestershire sauce, makes the meaty filling. The environment are fabricated from flaky pie pastry. These particular person meat pies make the right hand-held meal — often eaten for lunch — and are sometimes topped with ketchup. 

Whereas Vegemite is a flavorful addition to meat pies and is greatest recognized for being unfold on toast together with butter for breakfast in Australia, its distinctive style could be added to many dishes, with some extra stunning than others. Alongside the strains of utilizing it to taste meat pies, it may be used so as to add oomph to soup shares, stews, gravies, and beans in lieu of bouillon. It additionally enhances the sweetness of barbecue sauce whereas including depth, which places an Australian spin on rooster wings or pulled pork. 

Vegemite’s web site presents quite a few sudden methods to include this yeasty ingredient into on a regular basis dishes. They’ve recipes for pasta dishes, comparable to spaghetti bolognese, macaroni and cheese, or bowtie pasta with tomato and spinach, and in addition advocate including it to savory muffins and cheese twists. Asian delicacies can profit too, for instance in honey-glazed rooster bánh mì. And the unfold even will get added to sweeter decisions like brownies and cocoa and cream popsicles (known as “icy poles” down beneath). Whatever the recipe you select, the large flavors of Vegemite are positive to present your recipe a singular enhance.