Easy mushroom puff pastry pie
This is a wonderful, savoury, quiche-like pie that I use as a vegetarian main dish. It could also be altered for use as a starter if made using mini-tart tins. It always gets rave reviews!
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 1 packet puff pastry
- 50g butter, melted
- 425g onion, chopped
- 775g portobello mushrooms, coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves, finely chopped
- 200g cream cheese, cut into cubes, at room temperature
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon milk
Method
Prep:25min ›
Cook:1hr ›
Extra time:55min ›
Ready in:2hr20min
- Preheat oven to 200 C / Gas mark 6. Lightly grease a baking tray.
- Line a 25cm pie dish with 1 sheet of puff pastry. Trim the edge so 2.5cm hangs over the rim of the dish.
- Bake in preheated oven just long enough to set the pastry, 5 to 10 minutes.
- Cut the second sheet of puff pastry into 2.5cm wide strips. Place the strips on the prepared baking tray. Refrigerate the strips and the baked pie shell for at least 30 minutes, or up to 24 hours.
- Meanwhile, melt the butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Stir in the onions, and cook until soft and transparent, about 6 minutes. Stir in the mushrooms and thyme, and cook until the mushrooms soften and release their juices, about 6 minutes. Mix the cream cheese into the mushroom mixture, stirring until melted. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Spoon the mushroom mixture into the pie shell. Arrange the pastry strips in a lattice pattern across the filling. Fold and crimp the ends of the strips together with the pie shell edge trimming any necessary pastry to make an even edge.
- Whisk the egg yolk and milk together in a small bowl, and use to brush the top of the pie.
- Bake in preheated oven until the pastry is golden brown and the filling is heated through, up to 45 minutes. Check for doneness after 30 minutes. Cool another 30 minutes before serving.
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Reviews & ratings
Average global rating:
(9)
Reviews in English (8)
I made this with an autistic service user I work with and it was simple to make and tasty! - 18 Jul 2015
This was not only delicious, but a work of art, as well. There are several discrepancies, however. A puff pastry sheet would barely cover the bottom of a 10 inch pie dish- I had to transfer it to an 8 inch pie dish. I used one large chopped onion and an 8 oz. package of baby portobello mushrooms, and when mixed with the 8 oz. package of cream cheese it filled the 8 inch pie. I didn't need the yolk and milk mixture on top-it had a very nice sheen on the lattice-it looked beautiful, and the flavor was wonderful. - 01 Apr 2008 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I made this as a vegetarian option for Christmas Eve. Rather than using puff pastry for both crusts, I used puff pastry for the bottom and 6 sheets of filo pastry for the top crust. In addition, I used a herb/garlic cream cheese for more flavor. We enjoyed it and will make it again. - 30 Dec 2007 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)