Cheese Together With Onion Pie.

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu!

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Fun fact: I've made this pie 3 times inward the yesteryear month.
Maybe because it reminded me all of schoolhouse dinner cheese as well as onion pie as well as I was beingness all nostalgic inward my one-time age.
Because no thing how one-time I get, September volition e'er last the calendar month I associate amongst back-to-school. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 calendar month of novel beginnings, novel uniform, as well as novel stationary. As a 90's as well as early on 00's school-goer, Partners stationary shop was the identify to larn for novel notebooks as well as pens. Now, every bit I am reliably informed yesteryear my immature nieces, Smiggle is the identify to last seen.

As an adult, I beloved that I tin ambit notice straight off only savor the fun things almost September as well as non convey to worry almost homework as well as novel teachers. And, I beloved that if I am feeling all nostalgic almost schoolhouse dinners, I tin ambit notice brand my ain at home. Today, nosotros are making a classic Lancashire Cheese as well as Onion Pie but I definitely ask to bake upward a chocolate cake amongst mint or pinkish custard soon! 

I initiatory off made this cheese as well as onion pie during Ramadan. We were sick of spicy nutrient as well as hence this pie definitely striking the topographic point at Iftar 1 night. And yep similar I mentioned earlier, I convey made this recipe 3 times inward the yesteryear month. Twice I used my favourite Cheddar cheese as well as in 1 lawsuit I experimented amongst the to a greater extent than traditional Lancashire. You tin ambit notice purpose either or fifty-fifty a mix of both but my favourite volition e'er last the Cheddar.
As for the pastry, I prefer making my ain but experience gratuitous to purpose ready-made shortcrust. About 400g volition do. Serve the pie every bit it is or if you lot desire a existent trip downwardly retentivity lane, amongst chips as well as beans for a nostalgic dinner treat.


Vegetarian Pies, previously: cheese, leek as well as murphy pie // mini caramelised onion as well as cheddar quiches // cheddar as well as caramelised onion flan // cheddar as well as caramelised onion pasties // cheese as well as onion pasties

A Simple List of Ingredients:

For the Pastry:

1. Self-Raising Flour
2. Salt
3. Butter
4. Ice Cold Water

For the Filling:

1. Butter
2. Onions
3. Salt
4. White Pepper
5. Water
6. Cheddar Cheese or Lancashire Cheese
7. Milk

Bismillah, let's begin!

The pie begins amongst pastry. I made mine at abode but you lot could also purpose 400g ready-made shortcrust  or puff pastry if you lot prefer. For the homemade version, seat 200g Self-Raising Flour into a mixing bowl.

Add a Pinch of Salt as well as 120g mutual frigidness as well as cubed Butter.

Using your fingertips, rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. You tin ambit notice also purpose a stand upward mixer amongst a paddle attachment or a food processor to make the pastry.

Finally, pour inward Ice Cold Water, a tablespoon at time. Mix until a dough forms.

Wrap the dough inward clingfilm as well as chill inward the refrigerator for 30 minutes, if you lot convey time. If not, purpose conduct away.

Next, let's brand the filling. Melt 25g Butter inward a large pan.

Peel as well as roughly chop 3 Onions.

Add the chopped onions to the pan and stir until they are gently sizzling.

Cover amongst a pan as well as fix the onions over a depression rut for 15 minutes.

Uncover as well as stir-fry for a infinitesimal without colouring the onions likewise much.

Add inward 1/4 teaspoon Salt as well as 1/2 teaspoon White Pepper.

Stir inward before ....

... pouring inward 150ml Water.

Stir the H2O inward as well as allow the onions fix until ...

... the liquid has evaporated.


Spread the onions onto a plate as well as allow to cool.

It's fourth dimension to bake the pie hence seat the oven onto 180C or Gas Mark 4. Grease a 20cm (8 inch) loose-bottomed tart tin as well as identify a baking tray into the oven to rut up.

Note: I haven't got that exact tin so I used a 20cm flan yell upward instead. It worked good but a tin would convey been better.

When you lot are fix to bake, ringlet out 2/3 of the pastry on a lightly floured surface until it is about 0.5cm (1/4 inch) thick.

Fit the rolled pastry into the tart tin. Let the excess hang over the border - nosotros volition reduce it later.

Next, the cheese! Traditionally, Lancashire cheese is used inward this recipe but I didn't convey whatever inward the refrigerator hence used Cheddar instead.

Coarsely grate 160g Cheddar Cheese.You tin ambit notice add together to a greater extent than Cheddar, if you lot prefer. I found that 160g was plenty for me.

But if you lot desire to last to a greater extent than traditional, instead of Cheddar purpose Lancashire cheese.

Coarsely grate upward 250g Lancashire Cheese to purpose inward identify of the Cheddar.

We convey tried both versions of the pie as well as I personally prefer the Cheddar version.

Let's fill upward our pie. We convey the pastry, the grated cheese, the cooled onions, as well as a trivial milk.

Spoon one-half the onions into the tin.

Sprinkle over one-half the grated cheese.

Add the remaining onions.

And, the remaining cheese.

Finally, pour inward 40ml Milk. This is optional but without it I discovery that this pie tin ambit notice last a trivial dry. Note - if you've used Lancashire cheese, you lot don't ask to add together the milk.

Roll out the remaining 1/3 pastry to the same thickness - almost 0.5cm (1/4 inch) thick. Place the pastry on top.

Trim the edges of the pie amongst a abrupt knife, press the edges downwardly amongst a fork, poke a hole inward the centre, as well as brush the overstep of the pie amongst Milk.

Put the tart tin onto the hot baking tray from the oven as well as bake the pie for 40-50 minutes at 180C or Gas Mark iv until it is golden brown.

Let the pie cool inward the tin for 20-30 minutes before ....

... taking it out of the tin. Mine is a trivial on the stone oil side because I used the flan case. Yours volition await ameliorate if you lot purpose a proper tin.

Serve the pie amongst whatever you lot fancy. Here, nosotros went amongst elementary Branston pickle but for the amount nostalgic schoolhouse dinner experience, savor the pie amongst chips as well as beans.

Cheese as well as Onion Pie.

a vegetarian Lancashire classic.

Prep Time: About 1 hour.

Cook Time: About 50 minutes.

Serves: About iv people.

Ingredients

For the Pastry

200g Self-Raising Flour

Pinch of Salt

120g Butter, mutual frigidness as well as cutting into cubes
Ice Cold Water, every bit needed

For the Filling
25g Butter
3 Onions, peeled as well as roughly chopped
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon White Pepper
150ml Water
160g Grated Cheddar Cheese OR 250g coarsely grated Lancashire Cheese
40ml Milk

Make the pastry:
Into a mixing bowl, seat inward the flour, common salt as well as mutual frigidness butter. Rub the butter into the flour amongst your fingertips or an electrical stand upward mixer amongst the paddle attachment or nutrient processor. When the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs, add together as well as mix inward the mutual frigidness H2O a tablespoon at a fourth dimension until you lot convey a dough. Wrap the dough inward clingfilm as well as chill inward the refrigerator for 30 minutes, if you lot convey time. If not, purpose conduct away.

Cook the onions:
Melt the butter inward a large pan over medium heat. Add inward the chopped onions as well as tiddler until they gently sizzle. Cover the pan amongst a lid as well as move out on a depression rut for 15 minutes. Uncover as well as stir-fry for a infinitesimal without letting the onions color likewise much. Add inward the salt, white pepper as well as water. Stir as well as fix until the H2O has evaporated. Spread the onions out on a plate as well as allow to cool.

Prepare the oven as well as tin:
Turn the oven onto 180C or Gas Mark iv as well as seat a baking tray into the oven to rut up. Grease a 20cm (8 inch) loose-bottomed tart tin.

Assemble the pie:
Roll 2/3 of the pastry dough to about 0.5cm (1/4 inch) thick on a lightly floured surface. Line the tart tin amongst the pastry, letting the extra pastry hang over the edge. Spoon inward one-half the onions, as well as then one-half the grated cheese, the residual of the onions, as well as the residual of the grated cheese. Pour over the milk (leave out if you've used Lancashire cheese) before rolling out the remaining pastry to the same thickness as well as placing over the pie. Trim the edges of the pie, press the edges downwardly amongst a fork, poke a hole inward the centre, as well as brush the overstep of the pie amongst milk.

Bake the pie:
Put the tart tin onto the hot baking tray from the oven. Bake the pie for 40-50 minutes at 180C or Gas Mark iv until the overstep is golden brown.

Cool as well as serve:
Let the pie cool for 20-30 minutes before taking out of the tin. Cut into wedges as well as serve.

{adapted from bbc food}

Keep me inward your duas please, as well as savor your pie!

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu!