Rustic Potato and Greens Pie
- Basic Butter Pastry or store-bought pastry for a single crust pie
- 3/4 pound small boiling potatoes, such as Yukon gold or Red Bliss
- 1 medium onion
- 2 pounds cooking greens, such as chard, spinach, collards, mustard, or a mixture
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 ounces Gruyere cheese
- 1 ounce Parmigiano-Reggiano
- 1 cup ricotta
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg (preferably freshly grated)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 large eggs
- Prepare the Basic Butter Pastry.
- Chill half while you make the filling.
- (Freeze the remaining half for another use.)
- Preheat the oven to 375F.
- Scrub the potatoes and cut them into 1 1/2-inch pieces (about 2 cups); place them in a medium saucepan.
- Add cold salted water to cover by 1 inch.
- Bring the water to a boil over high heat; reduce the heat to low and simmer the potacoes for 15 to 20 minutes, or until they are tender when pierced with a knife.
- Meanwhile, finely chop the onion (about 1 cup).
- Thoroughly rinse and spin dry the greens, remove the tough stems, and coarsely chop the leaves (about 24 cups).
- (If using chard, the stems will be tender; reserve them to stir-fry for another meal.)
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat until hot.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low; add the onion and cook for 5 minutes, or until it has softened.
- Press in the garlic (about 2 teaspoons) and cook for 1 minute.
- Add half the greens and cook for 4 to 5 minutes, or until they have wilted.
- Remove the greens with tongs to a medium bowl.
- Repeat with the remaining half of the greens.
- Return the first batch of greens to the skillet and cook for 2 minutes more, or until any liquid that collected in the skillet has evaporated.
- When the potatoes are done, drain and mash them with a potato masher.
- Combine the potatoes and the greens mixture in a large bowl and set aside to cool slightly.
- Meanwhile, roll out the pastry between lightly floured sheets of wax paper to make a 12-inch round; pat the edges of the pastry to make the round even.
- Fit the pastry into a 9-inch pie plate; press against the sides of the plate, allowing the excess to hang over the edges.
- Put the pie plate in the fridge while you prepare the remaining ingredients.
- Grate the Gruyere (about 1/2 cup) and Parmigiano-Reggiano (about 2/3 cup Microplane-grated or about 1/3 cup grated on the fine side of a box grater); fold the cheeses into the potato mixture along with the ricotta, nutmeg, and salt and pepper to taste.
- Lightly beat the eggs; reserve 1 tablespoon.
- Stir the rest of the eggs into the potato mixture and spoon the filling into the pastry-lined pie plate.
- Gently lift the overhanging pastry over the filling, pleating as necessary to make it fit.
- (It will make a 1- to 1/2-inch border covering the edges of the filling, which will be uncovered in the center.)
- Brush the pastry with the reserved 1 tablespoon egg.
- Bake the pie for about 40 minutes, or until the filling is heated through and the pastry is golden.
- Let stand for 10 minutes before cutting.
butter, boiling potatoes, onion, cooking greens, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, gruyere cheese, ricotta, nutmeg, kosher salt, eggs
Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/rustic-potato-and-greens-pie (may not work)