Leek and Cheese Pie

Elena Butuc

This recipe was automatically translated from Romanian. View original here

Recipe with no. 501 I said to be this delicious pie with leeks and cheese, the recipe received from a family with whom we became friends at the cooking workshops and which is very dear to me.

I haven't made much leek pie so far, and it's a shame, it's very delicious, simple and good-looking - this leek season. If you don't really like leeks, you can put any filling, even plain cheese (possibly with onions) because I liked the dough here the most. I haven't made such a perfect pie dough in a long time and I really recommend it to you - although you can replace it with commercial or homemade puff pastry.

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Ingredients

Metric US

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Leek

800 g

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Feta Cheese

500 g

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Egg

6 pieces

4 for the filling, 1 for the dough and 1 for greased on top

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White onion

1 piece

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Salt and pepper

1 tsp

plus other spices for the filling, if you like - coriander, oregano, paprika, cumin, etc.

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Salt

1 tsp

for dough

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Sugar

1 tsp

for dough

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Sunflower oil

4 tbsp

for dough, plus oil for cooking leeks

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White flour

500 g

approx

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Bakers yeast

25 g

Step by step

The leeks are cleaned, washed and cut into small slices.

Then put it to harden together with finely chopped onion, 2 tablespoons of oil, 1 cup of water. Leave until there is no liquid in the pan.

Allow to cool well, then add the chopped cheese, eggs, salt (taste if necessary, the cheese is already salty) and spices (I just put pepper).

Stir, this will be the filling for the pie.

Now we quickly make the pie dough.

In a bowl pour 250ml of warm water, add 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt.

Then the yeast and about 150g of flour - mix well with the aim to get a mayo like liquid cream to consistency.

Let it rise for 15-20 minutes.

After it has risen, add 1 egg, 4 tablespoons of oil and flour gradually - be careful not to add all the flour at once. Knead and add a little until the dough catches, about 500g in total should be.