I love cooking shows. The other day I was watching the tv show “Good Chef, Bad Chef” and a saw the amazing Adrian cooking a Three Cheese Filo Pastry. It looked delicious and I thought I’d give it a whirl.
I have tweaked my recipe based on what great produce I could get at the local farmers market but the end result was delicious. I’m not a huge feta or ricotta fan but the taste was sensational.
You can add chicken to this as well if you want some meat to it. I have done both a chicken version and the vegetarian version shown below and they are just as yummy as one another.
This tastes even better the next day once the flavours have really developed! I have also frozen some and it has reheated fine. Delicious!
Three Cheese and Silverbeet Filo Pie
- Total Time: 60
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 bunch of silverbeet, finely chopped and stalk removed
- 1 leek, washed and roughly chopped
- 5 spring onions, fineley sliced
- 5 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1/3 bunch of parsley, roughly chopped
- 5 slices short cut bacon, sliced in quarters
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 bunch of asparagus, finely sliced
- 250g ricotta
- 100g feta, crumbled
- 100g grated cheddar cheese
- 4 eggs
- 150g cream
- 6 sheets of filo pastry, more if you use a large dish
- 50g melted butter
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Add garlic, leek, bacon and parsley to the bowl.
- Blitz on speed 8 until fine.
- Add the tablespoon of butter.
- Cook for 6 mins, speed 2, 100 degrees.
- Add silverbeet.
- Cook for 2 mins, reverse, speed 2, 100 degrees.
- Add remaining ingredients to bowl.
- Mix on reverse speed, speed 3 until everything is combined.
- Pour into a deep oven proof dish.
- Cook in the oven for 15 minutes to get the temperature up and the sauce thickening.
- Remove.
- Very carefully brush the filo pastry with oil one sheet at a time and scrunch up and place onto the pie. Be careful not to burn yourself. Sprinkle with any remaining melted butter and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Bake until filo is golden. Approximately 20-25 minutes.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 50
