Friday 18 October 2013

Bacon, Leek, Potato and cheese pie

Thought I had better give you the recipe for this as I had raved about it the other night, so here you go.  As usual I haven't stuck rigidly to the recipe (I never do!).

4oz Pastry - I used shortcrust, the recipe says use Flaky, but I don't see that it matters.  You can use frozen for this or homemade

Filling -
1 medium leek - I used two smaller ones and found that four of this size would be better
2 medium potatoes
7oz smoked bacon
1oz butter - the recipe says to use clarified, but I couldn't be bothered so used it straight from the pack
4 fl oz Milk
3 fl oz Single cream - I used double cream as I didn't have any single and it was fine
2 beaten eggs
2 tsps dried mixed herbs - I left out as I didn't have any
2 oz grated Double Gloucester cheese - I just used strong Cheddar instead, but used about 4oz
Salt and Pepper to taste


  • Preheat oven to 190C / 375F / Gas 5
  • Slice leeks into approx 1cm rounds and wash thoroughly
  • Peel and thinly slice the potatoes
  • Trim off the bacon rind and roughly chop
  • Roll out the pastry and line a 20cm flan dish, trimming the edges
  • Fry the bacon under the fat starts to render and it starts to go crispy.  Set aside on kitchen paper
  • Cook the leeks in the same pan and set aside with the bacon once soft
  • Add the butter and fry the potatoes until just coloured - you may have to do several batches
  • Spoon the leeks and bacon into the flan dish
  • I then added a generous layer of grated cheese and sliced a couple of tomatoes over the top
  • Arrange the potato slices over the top, overlapping to cover the other ingredients
  • Beat together the milk, cream, eggs, herbs and season well
  • Pour over the potatoes and top with more grated cheese
  • Bake for 30 - 45 minutes, covering with foil if it starts to brown too much
This is great served with a simple salad or with whatever veg you have available like we did.

Enjoy!


Stats today -

Eggs produced = 7

Sales -
1 dozen eggs £1.80
1 x 1Kg Onions £1.00

Expenses -
Nil

4 comments:

  1. Dinner tonight will be, copy cat pie! This looks like a marriage of some of our favourite foods, leek and bacon quiche and dauphinoise potato, I am thinking up layering the potato and the leek and bacon mix then putting a piecrust on top. I can hardly wait to try it out.

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  2. Oh wow, let me know how it went. The layering idea sounds good, especially with more cheese aswell. We too love dauphinoise pots, they are just yummy on cold winter nights - how do you do yours? Do you put sliced onions in your mix?

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    1. It went down very well, i blogged about it today. I left out the pie crust as I went a bit mad with everything else!. I do put onions in and garlic, if I have no cream I use beef stock, different taste, different name, Boulangere, but just as scrummy. and we make a meal of them with some green veg

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  3. Excellent! Will hop over to your blog and have a read. Never thought to use stock, don't the potatoes go a bit soggy?

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