Saturday, August 2, 2008

Deep Dish Potato Pie

I made this for dinner tonight and it was a big hit. Super-easy. I found a recipe online that I tweaked a bit. Serves four with seconds for all.

Ingredients:
2 pie crusts (I buy 'em pre-made)
3 large russet potatoes, thinly sliced
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, grated
1 cup or so vegetarian sausage crumbles
2 T fresh parsley, chopped
black pepper
1 cup heavy/whipping cream
1/4 cup cold butter, cut into small pieces

Directions:
  1. Pre-heat oven to 400
  2. Lightly oil 10" deep-dish pie plate (turns out that I don't have a big pie plate, so I used a bread pan and baked it 10-15 minutes longer)
  3. Place pie crust in pan
  4. Arrange layers of potatoes and onions
  5. Add sausage crumbles, cheese, parsley and pepper
  6. Pour cream on top and dot with butter
  7. Arrange other pie crust on top, sealing edges
  8. Slice crust to vent steam
  9. Bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temp to 350 and bake for 50 additional minutes (or until potatoes are tender)
  10. Remove from oven, rest for 5 minutes, slice and serve
It's SOOO good. Next time I'll add spinach and mushrooms. I bet loyal meat-eaters would enjoy this hearty, flavorful comfort food just as much as my veg friends and I did.

5 comments:

Sarah said...

Do you slice your veggies by hand or do you use a mandolin?

Deirdre said...

If I had been thinking I would have used my apple peeler-corer-slicer for the taters, but did them by hand. It was kind of soothing. No mandolin for me.

mary-claire said...

How many did this serve? I'm having a pot luck in a week and am thinking of using it as an excuse to finally make this.

mary-claire said...

yep... just reread your post and see that you wrote it. i'm always doing that. sorry.

Unknown said...

I bet us meat eaters could use real meat. I must be hungry, but more likely youare all great cooks, as everything sounds good.