Uses tiny amounts of corned beef to make a very tasty pie
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Total Time35 minutesmins
Course: Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine: English
Other: Freezes Well
Servings: 2
Calories: 576kcal
Author: Thrifty Lesley
Cost: 48p
Equipment
pan to fry in
mixing bowl
large mixing spoon
rolling pin
6" flan dish, for two servings
Ingredients
Pastry
100gflourself raising 3p
50mlveg oil£1.09/1 litre, 5p
50mlcool water
Pie Filling
¼tincorned beefvalue tins £1.59 40p
50gonionchopped, 80p/kg 4p
5mlveg oil1p
50gmushroomsfrozen ones are cheapest at £1.92/kg 10p
15gflour5p
Served with
400gpotatoes44p/kg 18p
160gpeas66p/kilo, 11p
Metric - US Customary
Instructions
Pastry
Make the pastry. Put the 50ml oil and 100g flour in a bowl and add about 50ml water until you have a soft dough. How to make pastry using oil hints. Leave to rest while you make the filling
Pie Filling
Sauté the onion in the 5ml of oil until soft.
Add the mushrooms and cook until they have released their water.
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 corned beef which is salty. Stir in the chopped corned beef . Leave to cool a little.
Assemble the pie
Roll out just two thirds of the pastry and use to line a flan dish etc big enough for two portions.
Pile in the filling mixture
Roll out the remaining third of the pastry and place over the filling
Bake the pie at 180C/160 fan/Gas 4 for about 30 minutes until golden
Meanwhile cook and mash the potatoes and cook the peas.
Serve the pie with the mashed potatoes and peas.
Notes
Got a great recipe? How about submitting it to appear on Thrifty Lesley!