‘Butter pie’ with apples & cheese

Name: ‘Butter pie’ with apples & cheese
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 800 grams potato (we used Desiree), sliced into 5mm rounds; 50 grams unsalted butter, plus 25g (optional); 2 larges (not mild) onions, halved and thinly sliced; 1 smalls pack thyme; 2 Coxs apples; 1 Tbsp lemon juice; 500 grams all-butter shortcrust pastry, defrosted if frozen; 175 grams mature Lancashire cheese, or cheddar, grated or crumbled; 1 serving beaten egg, to glaze

If you want to add more lacto ovo vegetarian recipes to your collection, ‘Butter pie’ with apples & cheese might be a recipe you should try. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 10. One portion of this dish contains around 11g of protein, 13g of fat, and a total of 340 calories. If you have potato, all-butter shortcrust pastry, egg, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 50 minutes.

Instructions

Bring a pan of salted water to the boil, then cook the potatoes for 8 mins until just tender but not falling apart.

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Water

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Drain and leave to steam-dry in the colander.

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Meanwhile, heat the butter in a wide pan. Stir in the onions, seasoning and the thyme, then cover and cook for 8 mins until translucent and turning golden. Peel and slice the apples, toss with the lemon juice, then cook with the onions in the now uncovered pan for 5 mins, stirring often.

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Lemon Juice

Seasoning

Apple

Butter

Onion

Thyme

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Mix in the potatoes, then leave to cool.

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Potato

Remove the thyme.

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Thyme

Cut just under two-thirds of the pastry from the block, squash into a round, then roll out on a flour-dusted surface until large enough to line a deep 23cm loose-bottomed tart tin, leaving a little excess overhanging. Fill the pastry case with layers of the potato and apple mix, and all but 1 tbsp of the cheese. Dot with the rest of the butter, if using, and season generously.

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Potato

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All Purpose Flour

Roll

Brush the overhanging edge of pastry with egg.

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Egg

Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and put a baking tray in the oven to heat up.

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Shape the remaining pastry into a round, then roll out until just large enough to cover the top of the pie. Press the edges together. Trim the pie by pressing your thumb against the rim of the tin all the way around.

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Brush with egg, then cut slits to allow steam to escape. Slide the pie onto the hot baking sheet and cook for 1 hr, scattering with the remaining. cheese with 10 mins to go, until the pastry and cheese are golden.

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Cheese

Egg

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Serve warm or eat cold with the pickled cabbage or beets on the side.

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Servings:

800grams

potato (we used Desiree), sliced into 5mm rounds 50grams

unsalted butter, plus 25g (optional)2larges

(not mild) onions, halved and thinly sliced 1smalls

pack thyme 2

Cox's apples 1Tbsp

lemon juice 500grams

all-butter shortcrust pastry, defrosted if frozen 175grams

mature Lancashire cheese, or cheddar, grated or crumbled 1serving

beaten egg, to glaze

Recommended wine: Lambrusco Dolce, Late Harvest Riesling, Vin Santo

Pie can be paired with Lambrusco Dolce, Late Harvest Riesling, and Vin Santo. These wines are all sweet, which is important since wine should usually be sweeter than the food you're pairing with it. One wine you could try is Chateau Chantal Late Harvest Riesling. It has 4.5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 21 dollars.