L'englaise Pizza Pie

deep filled pizza pie

Posted by Kt Bing

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A lovely warming winter pie that can be enjoyed both hot and cold

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You Will Need (9 things)

  • 1 Shortcrust Pastry
  • 200 g Streaky Bacon
  • 300 g Minced Pork
  • 1 Onion(s)
  • 2 Egg(s)
  • 2 Tbsp Finely Chopped, Fresh Parsley
  • 225 g Cheddar Cheese
  • 250 g Cottage Cheese
  • 1 Clove Garlic

Steps (5 steps, 90 minutes)

  1. 1

    pre heat oven to 200c. roll out your pastry and live a springform tin, leave some pastry for the topping.
    Take your bacon and cut into 1cm pieces, then fry with the pork until lightly browned

  2. 2

    Cool your pork and bacon mix in a large bowl.
    Dice the onion and garlic and grate the cheddar cheese. Drain your cottage cheese and leave to one side.

  3. 3

    once the pork and bacon mix is cooled, add the onion, garlic, cheese, cottage cheese and mix. Gently crack and mix the 2 eggs in a seperate bowl and add 90% of the eggs to your pork mix. The remaining 10% will be used to glaze your pie.

  4. 4

    Take your springform tin, lined with pastry and fill with your eggy pork mix, flatten down and smootht he top. Take your remaining bit of pastry and roll into a cirlce and lie on top of your pie. Crimp the pieces of pastry together with your fingers and glaze with the remainder of your egg mix

  5. 5

    Bake for 10 minutes at 200c then turn the oven down to 180c and bake for a further 45 minutes.

    Leave to cool for at least 20 minutes, then cut and enjoy!