Leek Pie

Submitted by Tomboy

"This is a great luncheon or light dinner recipe! The pie crust made from bread works really well and is much easier than pastry. I think it originally came from the Australian Womans Weekly. I've been making it for years. Serve it with a tossed green salad and some chips (fries)on the side."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 8 slices whole wheat bread
• margarine
• 3⁄4 cup grated tasty cheese
• 1 small red capsicum, chopped
• 1 tablespoon margarine
• 3 medium leeks, sliced
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 2 tablespoons cornflour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 chicken stock cube
• 3 eggs, beaten

directions

1. Remove crusts from bread and spread with margarine.
2. Retain the crusts.
3. Line the base and sides of a deep pie plate with bread, buttered side down.
4. Sprinkle with grated cheese and press down.
5. Set aside.
6. In a saucepan melt margarine.
7. Add leeks and cook for 5 minutes.
8. Stir in capsicum and garlic and cook 1 minute.
9. Stir in blended cornflour, milk and crumbled stock cube.
10. Cook for 3 minutes.
11. Remove from heat and stir in eggs.
12. Pour into bread lined pie plate.
13. Use the reserved crusts to decorate the top in a lattice pattern.
14. Bake in oven 200 deg celsius for 30 minutes or until filling is set.

Reviews

[Bergy]

Tomboy, as soon as I read this recipe I said I had to try it and I did last night. MMMmmm I love leeks and this is a great recipe. I did the recipe in individual oven proof (can't think of the word I want) bowls and they looked lovely sitting in front of each persons place. I added pepper & 1 jalapeno to the recipe. Served with a salad and crusty rolls Thank-you

 

[Fat Claire]

I needed something easy to use up excess leeks - this was just the rescipe. It was easy to make and lovely to eat.

 

[Nadine81]

This is in the oven as we speak, I have a good feeling about it. Love the bread crust idea. I only had white so hopefully it will taste ok. Wanted to make a quiche but was too lazy to make a pie crust.

 

[chef vally UK]

Yummy - worked well.Could roll out bread slightly to flatten to give crisper crust. Would be nice with other veggies - leek and mushroom - leek and blue cheese.....?

 

[Karenlyn2]

This was a neat idea and was fun to make. But in the end, the soft, rather squishy texture of the filling itself really turned me off. I couldn't finish mine. But I may use the bread crust for other recipes. Neat idea!