Pie pastry

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Ingredients :
400g of flour, ten eggs, 300 grams of minced beef, two one-liter bottles of tomato (or a pound of canned tomatoes), salt, a small onion, a cup of extra virgin olive oil, three artichokes , 200 g zucchini, 600 g of smoked cheese, 100g of butter, three cups of milk, 200 gr grated pecorino cheese

Have the flour, work the dough, add 4 eggs, until dough is neither too hard nor too soft, stretch the dough very thin, cut the pastry into strips about 20 cm in length and width of 15; pour in boiling salted strips, cook for 3 minutes, drain and dry on a towel, in another bowl prepare the sauce with tomato, whole onion (to be removed at the end of cooking), the chopped meat and oil, salting opportunities in another frying pan and fry gild the zucchini and artichokes, cut into pieces, combine in yet another pan artichokes, zucchini and smoked cheese, cut into pieces, grease a baking dish 25 cm in diameter with butter, lay out alternatively a sheet and a layer of stuffing, adding each layer of filling sauce, butter, grated cheese and chopped egg and milk mixture, cover the pie with a layer of pastry, place it in a moderate oven (160 °) and keep it there for about fifty minutes.
Variation: Add boiled peas and sauce.

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