176 hand py recipes

Tender sugar cookies filled with apricot preserves and sealed like hand pies, with a hint of nutmeg in the dough for warm spice.

Koloketes: traditional Cypriot pumpkin hand pies with bulgur, onion, and warm cinnamon in a crisp olive oil pastry. Authentic Greek Cypriot mezze or snack.

Middle Eastern-style lamb hand pies with pine nuts, mint, and lemon zest baked in biscuit dough. Served with a cool minted yogurt dipping sauce.

Hamburger pasties stuffed with seasoned ground beef, onion, canned vegetables, and sharp cheddar, folded into pie crust turnovers. A portable hand pie that doubles as sandwich or gravy-topped dinner.

Greek-spiced stuffed bread footballs filled with seasoned ground turkey, brown rice, and oregano. Football-shaped baked hand pies with sesame topping, served warm with cucumber-yogurt sauce.

Puff pastry apple turnovers wrap diced apples, plumped raisins, and chopped pecans in flaky golden pastry squares. Sweet hand pies dusted with confectioners' sugar, perfect for breakfast or dessert.

Flaky homemade chicken pasties stuffed with seasoned chicken, potatoes, carrots, and onion, baked until golden. A hearty hand pie that's comfort food you can hold.

Pastelitos, little hand pies filled with mashed dried fruit, honey, and cinnamon in a flaky shortening crust. A traditional Latin American fruit turnover baked golden.

Fried apple pies with a cheddar cheese pastry and a cinnamon-apple filling with grated cheese. A Southern hand pie fried golden in a skillet.

Italian sausage and ricotta filling with spinach, pine nuts, and garlic for yeast pastry pockets. Savory hand pies baked golden with an egg wash crust.

Cabbage runzas: pillowy yeast dough pockets stuffed with browned ground beef, cabbage, and onion, then baked golden. The Nebraska hand pie that freezes and reheats like a dream. Also known as bierocks.

Forfar bridies, the Scottish hand pies stuffed with seasoned ground lamb or beef and onion, sealed in flaky pastry. A classic UK-style meat pasty for picnics or pub fare.

Runzas: Nebraska's German-Russian beef and cabbage hand pies wrapped in sweet yeast dough. The Plains state classic, baked golden and stuffed full of seasoned beef.

Empanada meat pies stuffed with seasoned ground beef, hard-boiled egg, raisins, and green olives. A Latin American hand pie that fries or bakes for crispy, golden hand-held meals.

Fried apple pies are hand-held Southern hand pies with spiced apple filling tucked into a homemade dough, deep-fried golden and dusted with powdered sugar. Served warm with vanilla ice cream.

Spanish empanadillas stuffed with wine-braised rabbit, fennel and olives, folded into a thyme-scented dough and baked golden. Savory little hand pies for tapas or a Mediterranean spread.