Cauliflower Cheese & Bacon Pie

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I’ve been wanting to make a pie for a while, but never really got around to it. I fancied a pie that wasn’t your usual beef/chicken pie and came across a cauliflower cheese pie on the GFM website. To make it non-veggie for hubby I altered the recipe slightly and added some bacon. I was really tasty, creamy but light at the same time and we’ll be certainly be having it again. I did use my alphabet cutters to put our names on top of the pies, but it hasn’t shown up well on the photo. I served it with carrot and roast potatoes.

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 small cauliflower, cut into small florets
  • 2 rashers of smoked back bacon, cut into small strips
  • 3 spring onions, chopped
  • 200 ml creme fraiche
  • 100 g mature cheddar (I used Quickes cheddar)
  • seasoning
  • ready-made puff pastry
  • egg, lightly beaten

Preparation

Step 1

1) Preheat oven to 200oc. Fry bacon and spring onions until bacon is cooked. In a large bowl mix all of the ingredients together (apart from pastry) then spoon into pie dishes.

2) Roll out puff pastry to size of dishes then place on top. Pinch around the edges and use a knife to put 2 slits into each piece of pastry to stop it getting soggy underneath. Brush with a small amount of egg. Cook for 25-30 min.