I know, I know…it’s not a Sunday and it’s not a cake recipe, but it’s Pie Week! So I had to share my really quick and easy recipe for a cheesy vegetable pie/bake.
I have started to get a small veg box from Abel and Cole since work negotiated a great offer. I have been meaning to order one for ages but never got round to it so this seemed to be the right time to get on and order it. And I love it! It really makes me cook with more seasonal veg which means we have been eating more fresh veg. It also means that I have been going to the supermarket less as I always have fresh items in the fridge!
This week I had a few bits left over as we didn’t eat at home a couple of nights. So I decided to throw it all together to make a pie. I didn’t have much time or ingredients in the house so this is it at it’s simplest form. You could easily add a creamy bechamel sauce, chicken, ham, chilli, spices…literally anything you have in the kitchen at the time. Or you could top it with breadcrumbs to make a bake ratther than a pie and I’m sure it would work just as well.
I’m not even going to write ingredient amounts as I literally added whatever I had.
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- Strong cheese – grated
- Salt and Pepper
- Ground cumin
- Puff Pastry – you could make your own but I used ready made
- Splash of milk
- Veg
I used…
- Romane potatoes – peeled and chopped
- Broccoli – cut into florets
- Onions – red and white – sliced
- Celery – sliced
- Leek – sliced
- Carrot – grated
- Fennel – sliced
- Chard – chopped
- Swede – peeled sliced
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Method:
- Boil the potatoes and swede for 20mins
- Add the broccoli to the pan for the last 5mins of boiling
- Drain and mash roughly with a fork
- Fry the onion and celery until cooked
- Steam the leek, carrot, fennel and chard
- Mix it all together with salt, pepper and ground cumin to taste
- Add a couple of handfuls of cheese (be generous) and mix
- Add veg mix to a dish and top with a pastry lid.
- Cut an ‘X’ in the top and brush with milk
- Bake in the oven for 20-25mins
And that’s it! This was a lovely pie and I reheated some leftover for lunch today and in my opinion it tasted even better!!
It has a lot of potential, but easily as good cooked this simply.
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