How to Bake Galician Pie

Serves: 44

Preparation time: 30 mins

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Ingredients needed to make Galician Pie:

• 5 oz chorizo, peeled and chopped
• 5 oz monkfish fillets, chopped into 10 equal pieces
• 4 oz mussels, cooked
• 4 oz squid rings
• 2 oz prawns, peeled, deveined and cooked
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 2 rashers smoked bacon, chopped
• 9 oz cherry tomatoes, halved, seeded and chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 2 small red onions, finely chopped
• 2 red bell peppers, roasted, peeled and chopped
• Handful of fresh flatleaf parsley, chopped
• 1 tsp harissa paste
• Pinch of cayenne pepper
• 2 sheets packaged puff pastry
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• A splodge of butter, softened
• Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Cooking instructions for Galician Pie:

• Prepare your oven by preheating it to 425 degrees F and rub the knob of butter all over the sides and base of a pie dish.
• Drizzle oil in a heavy-bottomed frying pan and heat it over moderate heat.
• Throw in the bacon as well as chorizo and saute them until they ooze out fat and browns slightly; stir at times while frying.
• Add the garlic plus onions and continue to stir-fry the mixture for about 4-5 minutes or until they become tender and the onions caramelises.
• Add the chopped tomatoes, along with a dash of cayenne pepper and stir them well together.
• Leave the mixture on heat to simmer it for about 5 minutes or until most of the juice running out from the tomatoes is absorbed.
• Throw in the red bell pepper and stir fry for a minute.
• Sprinkle the seasonings over the monkfish pieces and toss them well together before adding them to the cooking mixture, along with rest of the seafood.
• Cook them for a couple of minutes and stir in the chopped parsley, followed immediately by the harissa paste; adjust the seasonings.
• Spread a pastry sheet across the greased pie dish and fill it up with the prepared mixture.
• Place the other pastry sheet on top and press the sides firmly to seal.
• Cut off the excess pastry hanging out of the pan and paint the surface with the beaten egg.
• Bake the pie in the oven for about 20 minutes or until it puffs up and turns crispy golden.
• Take it out of the oven and set aside to cool slightly.
• Slice the pie into quarters and serve right away.

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Last Updated on January 4, 2013 by