Homemade Cheesy Potato Pie
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
1 pie
- Serves:
- 6
ingredients
- pie crust, ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable shortening (if you have no shortening you can substitute it with one egg yolk and vegetable oil)
- 2 -3 tablespoons cold water
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt (optional)
- pie filling, ingredients
- 4 -5 potatoes
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup cream cheese (depends on how much cheese you want)
- 1 pinch basil
- 1⁄4 cup cream (when I did it I only had coconut cream and it worked well!)
- 1⁄2 cup bean sprouts (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- Pie Crust.
- Mix all dry ingredients together.
- cut shortening into mix and fold until you see crumbles (if using the oli and yolk poor into mix stirring until you see crumbles).
- add the cold water until mix holds together.
- roll out mixture to fit pie pan and mold onto the pan.
- Filling directions.
- wash potatoes and cut in half. boil them until semi cooked not too hard but hard enough to cut into.
- slice potatoes into almost potato chip like pieces about half an inch to an inch thick.
- in a small sauce pan melt cream cheese and butter together until its smooth.
- add basil to the mix.
- poor mixture over potatoes and mix well.
- If using bean sprouts add with mixture and mix well.
- Add mixture to pie crust and put into the oven
- Cook for about 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours.
- pull out pie and shred cheese of your choice on top and pop into the broiler for about 5 minutes.
- let cool for at least 10 mins and serve.
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