Cheese and onion pie: tastier and easier than pizza

If you like homemade savory pies, you should know that you can use any kind of dough for the base, including shortcrust pastry. And for the filling, you can take not only minced meat, seafood, and fish, but also greens or cheese, and it will also be delicious with fried onions.

Chef Volodymyr Yaroslavskyi shared a recipe for a delicious onion and cheese pie on Instagram.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• 210 g flour
• 140 g of butter 82.5% of
• 60 g of ice water
• 10 g of lemon juice
• salt

Filling:

• 25 g butter
• 400 g of onions
• 140 g of bacon
• 3 eggs
• 300 g of 30% cream
• 70+30 g of Dorblu cheese
• nutmeg

Method of preparation:

1. Add chopped pieces of butter to flour and chop everything with a knife until the dough turns into crumbs. Add salt, water, lemon juice and quickly mix the dough, gather it and fold it 3-4 times. Wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Then take out the dough and roll it out into a thin layer. Put it in a baking dish with parchment and bake at 180 C for 25 minutes.

2. Fry chopped onion in butter over medium heat. Add bacon and nutmeg and cool.

3. Mix cream with eggs, add the onion, 70 g of cheese in large pieces, nutmeg and Dorblu cheese slices on top. Pour over the dough and bake at 175 C for 25 minutes.

It is better to eat the finished pie cold!