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Kale pie with walnuts and blue cheese

Kale pie with walnuts and blue cheese

Prep Time 25 mins
Cook Time 35 mins
Total Time 1 hr
Course Main Course, Main Dish, Side Dish
Cuisine Swedish
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pie dough

Filling

  • 200 g kale
  • 1 red onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 2 tsp honey
  • 100 g blue cheese
  • 100 g walnuts
  • oil
  • salt
  • black pepper

Egg mixture

  • 4 eggs
  • 250 ml cream
  • 200 g cheese preferably Västerbottencheese
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp paprika
  • 1 pinch cinnamon
  • black pepper

Instructions
 

  • Turn the oven to 200°C (392°F)
  • Use a large pie form and spread out the pie dough in it. Cover edges with aluminium foil and use a fork to poke holes in the bottom of the pie.
  • Place in the oven for 15 min, then take it out and lower the heat to 175°C (350°F)
  • While the pie dough is in the oven you can heat up a pot of water with some salt in it. Wash and chop the kale coursely. Then boil it for 5 min. Let the kale sit in a colander.
  • Peel the onion and cut it in thin slices. Fry it in a pan with some oil, the honey and salt until it is soft and has gotten some color.
  • Mince the garlic cloves and add to the frying pan, let it fry for a minute. Add the kale and stir to mix everything.
  • Fill the pie with the filling
  • Grate the cheese then whisk the eggs in a bowl together with the rest of the egg mixture ingredients.
  • Pour egg mixture over the pie
  • Crumble the blue cheese over the pie
  • Coursely chop/crush the walnuts and sprinkle them on top
  • Place the pie in the oven for 35-40 min in the lower part of the oven.
  • Serve hot with a salad (apple and red cabbage in the salad goes well together)
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