Meat and Potato Pie (Pastel de Papas)

Potato puree ingredients:

Preparation:

Peel the potatoes, wash and cut in fourths

In a cacerole put water, potatoes and salt, cook it in high temperature until boils, lower the heat and let it simmer for 15 minutes or until tender, put the potatoes in a colander to drain the water

Place it in a large bowl

Add butter

Mash the potatoes until you achieve the consistency of a puree

Add salt and pepper to taste, mix

Add milk, mix

Add nutmeg

Eggs

Mix well, set a side

Meat Filling ingredients:

Preparation:

In a small pot, boil the eggs, let it cool and chop, set a side

Put oil in a large skillet and heat it to a medium temperature

Add onions, red bell peppers and cook it until onions are translucent

Add garlic cloves cook it for 2 minutes

Add paprika, ground cumin, cayenne pepper

Beef bouillon cube (crush), mix well

Add the ground beef

Mix well, cook it for 10 minutes

Add the crushed tomatoes

Mix, cook it for 5 minutes, taste to adjust the salt

Mix the chopped eggs with the meat filling

To arrange the Pie:

Preheat the oven at 375 degrees fahrenheit

In an oven dish, sprayed with cooking oil

Lay 1 cm layer of potato mixture

Empty all the meat filling onto the potato layer, spread the mixture evenly

Cover it with another layer of potato, wich should be almost equal to the layer of beef filling

Make waves on the top of the potato layer with a fork so that it toasts a little

Place it in the oven and cook it for 30 minutes on bake and then 4 minutes on broil