Boxing Day Egg-and-Bacon Pie

11 ingredients
12 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 3-5 tablespoons salted ice water or enough to bind
  • 2 1/4 cups or 18 ounces pancetta or bacon, chopped into small squares
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • 1 green onion, finely chopped
  • Approximately 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
  • 2 large eggs
  • 8-inch pie plate

Directions

  1. 1
    Make the pastry by freezing the fats and flour together for 10 minutes, then tip out into the food processor and blitz to a flaky rubble.
  2. 2
    Add enough ice water to bind, then form into 2 discs, cover them with plastic wrap and rest in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
  3. 3
    Preheat the oven to 400F.
  4. 4
    Cook the pancetta or bacon in a frying pan with the onion, peppering well.
  5. 5
    Beat the green onion, parsley, and eggs together, and set aside while you roll out the pastry between plastic wrap.
  6. 6
    Using one of the discs, line the dish, leaving an overhang.
  7. 7
    Roll out the other half between plastic wrap to make a lid, and set aside for one moment.
  8. 8
    Transfer the pancetta and onion mixture to the pastry-lined pie plate and pour over the onion, parsley, and eggs.
  9. 9
    With a little cold water, dampen the edges of the pastry shell and cover with the rolled-out lid.
  10. 10
    Cut off excess pastry, and seal and pinch all around the rim.
  11. 11
    Make a hole in the lid to let out steam, put in the oven, and bake for 30 minutes.
  12. 12
    Sit on a wire rack until slightly above room temperature, or eat cold.

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