Ham and Spinach Pie

[cookie1]

Ham and Spinach Pie:
Number of People    4-6 :
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons EVOO
150g spinach
8 spring onions
1 garlic clove
125g cream cheese
200g sliced ham, chopped
½ cup cheese, grated
either make your own pastry for the top and base or use bought pastry. I use EDC short pastry for the base and the top.



Preparation:
Grate cheese in thermomix and set aside.
Add the onion and garlic to the bowl, blitz speed 5 for a few seconds.
Add spinach and oil.
Cook 5 minutes, 100, speed 2-3.
Season with pepper.
Remove and squeeze the moisture out. I used the steaming basket. Let cool.
Pre heat oven to 220⁰C.
Line the base of a 20-22cm pie dish with pastry and blind bake. I only ever do mine for about 5 minutes.
Reduce oven to 200⁰C.
Break cream cheese up into small pieces. Add to spinach mixture with the ham and cheese.
stir to combine.
Spoon into the pastry shell and cover with pastry.
Bake for around 30 minutes.
Stand for about 10 minutes before serving.
Photos:

Tips/Hints:
I sometimes make this without the pastry on the top.
This recipe is based on one from Food Ideas but I have fooled with it quite a lot as well as converting it.

[judydawn]

Sounds nice Cookie.

[mab19]

Sounds good Cookie.  I will definately make this one probably using silver beet as I keep getting given big bunches of the stuff.

[cookie1]

Mab the original recipe used silverbeet. It cooked up the stalks for a few minutes before putting the leaves in. Put in with the onions and garlic.

[Emme]

Thanks for this recipe Cookie, will definitely be on the menu

[mab19]

Mab the original recipe used silverbeet. It cooked up the stalks for a few minutes before putting the leaves in. Put in with the onions and garlic.

Thanks for that Cookie.  I will try to get this made at the weekend while GS is out.  He hates anything that is green

[Bootobethin]

Thanks so much cookie I can make this one  dairy free quite easily by using "Better than Cream Cheese" and savoury yeast flakes.
YUM!

[lozzylooloo]

Sorry, silly question, after adding cream cheese is that "stir by hand so the chunks stay there" or "give it all a quick blitz in TMX until smooth"
Sorry! Sounds delicious, might give this a go tonight but don't have any normal cheese, so not sure whether I want to miss the extra gooey cheese factor

[cookie1]

I just give it a quick stir together so that it is combined. By hand!  I hope you enjoy it.

[lozzylooloo]

Great, thank you for the info

I will hopefully make tonight even without the grafted cheese - if the baby will go to sleep

[lozzylooloo]

Grafted cheese?! Nice typo!!

Just reporting back. What I can confidently say is that this is a very forgiving recipe!! Or that I have invented a totally new one? I had committed myself and then kept finding ingredients missing - not least if which was the ham I thought I had in fridge!!

In the end, I chopped 2 good cloves of garlic and 1 smallish onion with about 8 baby sized silverbeet leaves, then I cooked it with the evoo in thermie. Afterwards I added the pepper and then 125g cream cheese and whizzed it, hoping that would work as a binder since so much else was missing. Looked good but quantity was small, so I added the other 125g of block and stirred reverse, ?? Sp 3 or 4 ish. This combined things more but also left some lumps. Popped into mini short crust pastry cases and then cooked per directions, but for about 20 mins.

The verdict? Firstly, that I should probably check the cupboard, veggie garden, and fridge rather than assuming I have lots of anything!!
But they still taste good to me, if quite rich. Will send some with DD for kinder tomorrow and see how they go.
Will be nice to try the real recipe too
Thanks cookie - for the recipe and your help

[cookie1]

My pleasure. Your version sounds nice. I find it is quite rich.
I think we all do things like that. Last weekend I had worked out how many eggs I needed and I had just enough. However I didn't count on the one I needed to coat schnitzels. I had to rush out and get some!!!

[obbie]

sounds yum, i will have to make..

[lozzylooloo]

Haha cookie I had to laugh at the egg story - I've been known to hover near the chook pen trying to get the girls to hurry up and give me just one more egg