Blue cheese pie

• ⏲️ Prep time: 15 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 35 minutes
• 🍽️ Servings: 10 portions

Ingredients

• 250g shortcrust pastry
• 90g butter
• 200g onions, sliced
• salt and pepper
• 40g flour
• 300ml milk
• mustard (hot)
• 120g blue vein cheese, crumbled
• watercress

Directions

1. Roll out pastry to line 20cm flan cases. Roll out trimmings and cut into 1cm strips for decoration.
2. Melt 2/3 of the butter in a pan and cook the onions until tender. Add salt and pepper, then remove onions from the pan.
3. Melt remaining butter, add flour, cook out, gradually add milk to make a sauce, add mustard to taste.
4. Stir in onions and cheese.
5. Pour into pastry cases, arrange pastry strips to form a lattice work on top.
6. Bake at 220℃ for 15 minutes, then at 170℃ for a further 15-20 minutes - decorate with watercress