Leek and onion pie
Instructions
Prepare the filling: wash the white stems of leeks, cut into thin slices and put them in a colander.
Wash them well under cold running water.
Peel the onions and cut them into rings.
Melt the butter in a large saucepan, mettetevì onions and leeks.
Stir, cover and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Stir eggs and cream and put aside a spoon for cooking.
Sprinkle on onion and leeks, flour and stir with spatula.
Pour over the eggs with the cream, stirring quickly and remove from heat.
Add salt and pepper liberally.
Let cool.
Prepare the dough: sift the flour, salt and pepper in a bowl, add the butter into small pieces and work the mixture with two knives until it has the consistency dì bread crumbs.
Lightly beat the egg yolks with 2 tablespoons of water and pour into the bowl.
Stir until soda paste that comes off from the edges of the container.
Put the bowl in the refrigerator for twenty minutes.
Grease a 22 cm diameter.
You heat the oven to 200° c (thermostat 6).
Flour the work surface.
Divide the dough in two parts (two thirds and one third).
Flatten the thickest part with a rolling pin and then put it into the mold.
Pour over vegetables; roll out the rest of the dough, moisten edges and cutlery this lid on vegetables.
Pinch the edges for welding, make a small hole in the center of the cake keeping it open with a cardboard roll day.
Cut decorative patterns in advance say pasta.
Brush the surface of the cake with the egg and cream set aside; fatevì join the decorations and brush these with egg and cream.
Intornate and cook for 50 minutes until the surface is golden.
Served hot or cold.
You can add vegetables 100 g of bacon cut into pieces and browned, or 100 g of shoulder ham cut into pieces.
Accompanied by a green salad, this cake can be a simple but nourishing dish.
Ingredients and dosing for 6 persons
- For the dough:
- 500 g of flour
- 250 g of butter
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1/4 teaspoon of pepper
- For the filling:
- 750 g of white leek stems
- 500 g of onions
- 75 g of butter
- 2 eggs
- 5 tablespoons of cream
- 4 tablespoons of flour
- Salt
- Pepper
- For the mold and the workplan:
- 2 tablespoons of flour
- 10 g of butter