This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021.
This recipe is one of those extremely variable ones. You can bake this as a pie, leave the top of and bake as a bacon and sweetcorn tart, or steam it as a pudding and change the filling in a great many ways. This version costs just 32p a serving, including all sides The bacon & sweetcorn pie features on Meal Plan 1 and can be used as a real blow out Sunday lunch by following it with Baked Marmalade Sponge.
How to make bacon and sweetcorn pie
Chop a small onion and a couple of rashers of bacon.
Saute the onion until transparent.
Put a little flour and water in the frying pan to make a bit of sauce.
Add the onion, bacon and a bit of sweetcorn.
Mix all the filling ingredients together.
Make some oil pastry. Line a small flan dish (for 2) pile in the filling, top with remaining pastry and bake for about half an hour
If you are following the meal plan, serve with peas and 200g potato. The potato can be baked, as in the picture, boiled, mashed or fried.
Other ways to cook the pie
- Instead of using a flan dish, put two thirds of the pastry in a one pound pudding basin, pile in the filling and top with the remaining pastry. Cover tightly with a lid or a double layer of greaseproof paper tied round the top of the basin tightly with string, and steam for about 2 hours. Can be done in a slow cooker to save fuel.
- Or line the flan dish with half the pastry, pile in the mix and bake as an open topped bacon and sweetcorn tart.
- Or make 2 individual 10cm pies or tarts.
- Or go even smaller and make pie or tarts, jam tart sized.
- I generally make a double quantity in a 20cm dish and serve it 2 days running (there are just the two of us here)
Flavour variations
If you have some, gravy would go well with this. This is a good base for a pie and once you have mastered it, it has many variations.
You could substitute
- 70g chicken for the bacon
- 70g corned beef for the bacon
- 70g salmon and prawns for the bacon
- Mushrooms for the sweetcorn
- Onions for the sweetcorn
- Add curry paste or powder
- Add soy sauce and/or fish sauce
- Add tomato sauce, brown sauce or tomato paste
And of course, any of the variations can also be steamed as a pudding instead of baked as a pie.
This is from Meal Plan 1, a complete 7 day plan for 2 adults. Contains 3 meals a day, plus snacks, all recipes and a shopping list
If you like pie, and who doesn’t like a good pie, this tomato, red lentil and olive pie is really delicious, and can also be baked or steamed
Ingredients
Pie Filling
- 70 g cooking bacon chopped small
- 50 g onion chopped
- 50 g sweetcorn
- 15 g self-raising flour
- 5 ml veg oil
Pastry
- 100 g self-raising flour
- 50 ml veg oil
Served with
- 400 g potatoes
- 160 g peas
Instructions
Make The Filling
- Finely chop the onion
- Finely chop the bacon
- Sauté the onion in the 5ml of oil until soft.
- Mix the 15g flour with 100ml water and add to the pan. Stir around until thickened.
- Season, but be light handed with the salt as you will be adding the bacon.
- Stir in the chopped bacon and sweetcorn. Leave to cool a little.
- Mix all the filling ingredients together
Make The Pastry
- Put the 50ml oil and 100g flour in a bowl and add about 50ml water bit by bit until you have a soft dough. If you have time, the pastry will benefit by being left to rest for a few minutes. How to make pastry using oil hints. You need to add the water, otherwise, the pastry will be impossible to roll
Assemble
- Roll out half of the pastry and use to line a flan dish etc big enough for two portions.
- Pile in the filling mixture and top with the remaining pastry.
- Top with the remaining pastry.
Bake
- Bake the pie at 180C/160 fan/Gas 4 for about 30 minutes until golden
Serve
- Meanwhile cook the peas. Cook the potatoes as mash, baked potato, oven wedges or any other way you would like them
- Serve with the potatoes and peas.
Notes
- 70g chicken for the bacon
- 70g corned beef for the bacon
- 70g salmon and prawns for the bacon
- Mushrooms for the sweetcorn
- Onions for the sweetcorn
- Add curry paste or powder
- Add soy sauce and/or fish sauce
- Add tomato sauce, brown sauce or tomato paste
- And of course, any of the variations can also be steamed as a pudding instead of baked as a pie.
- Instead of using a flan dish, put two thirds of the pastry in a one pound pudding basin, pile in the filling and top with the remaining pastry. Cover tightly with a lid or a double layer of greaseproof paper tied round the top of the basin tightly with string, and steam for about 2 hours. Can be done in a slow cooker to save fuel.
- Or line the flan dish with half the pastry, pile in the mix and bake as an open topped bacon and sweetcorn tart.
- Or make 2 individual 10cm pies or tarts.
- Or go even smaller and make pie or tarts, jam tart sized.
- I generally make a double quantity in a 20cm dish and serve it 2 days running (there are just the two of us here)
Just made this again and filled it with beef mince, peas, onion and gravy. Went down a treat. Thanks for sharing and for all your other recipes.
I’m so glad you found me Margaret, I’m sure we can get your budget down a bit between us.
There are lots of hearty and filling things you can make for your son to fill him up. Food can be very expensive I know.
Seemingly boring things like meal planning can make a big difference, using everything up too and stretching the expensive stuff till the pips squeak!
Do let me know how you get on and if you need a hand with planning etc
Thank you so much for the recipes I will certainly try a lot of them. It’s great that I can go back years to read your earliest recipes. Fantastic
I have only recently joined your site. Am amazed at what you have done
I’m on state pension so on a budget. Food eats away at my pension there’s only myself and unemployed son who loves his food lm so glad I come across your site thank you.
I tried the pastry as dumplings too, it works very well doesn’t it
Love a good pasty, never really got the meat right yet
I use the scraps of pastry left over from making the pie as dumplings in stews.
I am going to have a go at making Cornish Pasties using this pastry at the weekend
really glad you like it Paul. There are lots of different filling variants for this pie, plus you can steam it as a pudding as well for yet another version. I love pies!
Wow. I love this recipe.
I never need to buy a shop bought pie again. Why would you. This is so quick and easy to prepare it is going to become a staple in our home. We both work and although we do cook from scratch every day we need to find recipes that are really quick and don’t use up too many pans or too much space (we live in a caravan)This pie is perfect for small space living. Get the filling going, then make the pastry, bung it in the oven, wash up and then get the veg on so when you finish eating you just have two plates and a pan to wash. Brilliant!
Haha, thank you Callen. I love those pies!
Lesley you legend! Cheap, tasty and quick! Pastry was lovely! Had it with homemade wedges and beans.
Hope you like it Jennie, let me know how you get on
Really looking forward to trying this and its variations as well
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How lovely, I’m so glad you are enjoying your cooking again and making things that you enjoy
Just made this pie for the second time in 2 weeks, and it’s a firm favourite. My oh doesn’t like mash (and yet I still married him ha ha) so we had it with mixed roasted veg, potatoes (red & sweet) and a couple of carrots. It went down so well last time that this time a made a bigger pie (double recipe) and we will have it again. This time I also added the peas into the filling, yum yum. I couldn’t believe how tasty the filling was with such simple ingredients. I want to thank you Leslie, as I had lost my passion for cooking and relied far too heavily on processed/convenience foods etc, and having followed your meal plans for two weeks I am thoroughly enjoying my little family (me, oh, and our 2 year old son) eating such lovely homemade food. The extra pennies are nice too. Oh, I also made your oat biscuits in plain, cinnamon, and raisin versions, yummy!
First time, wow! You were brave then. Good job it worked then or my name would be mud in your house 🙂
Hi found you on pinterest and just made this for dinner. It was lovely the kids loved it! Very excited as it is the first time I have ever made my own pastry and it worked 🙂 Cheap and easy to follow, you’re fab x
Aha, now I understand the confusion. I had indeed put onions and potatoes, when it should have been just onion. There is no potato in the pie filling
I have changed the post and removed ‘and potatoes’
Sorry about the gremlins
Why do you say to sauti onions and potatoes? I really want to make this but I’m confused! Please re read the instructions and advise, I believe the last poster was trying to say the same! Thanks
Hi Shirley, the potatoes are not in the filling, they are served as mash to go with it
There are 400g of potatoes shown just below the ingredients list for the pie itself
Love the recipes. How many potatoes do I need for the filling of this Bacon and sweetcorn Pie Recipe? They seem to have been left out of the list of ingredients.