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tomato pie

Tomato Pie

After we finish this dish up, I immediately want to make it again.

Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 1 9-inch pie pan
Author Janssen Bradshaw

Ingredients

Pie Crust

  • 2 TB ice water
  • 1 small egg or half an egg
  • 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour or 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour and 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 6 T butter frozen

Filling

  • 1/2 yellow onion
  • 4 to matoes cut in half, squeezed to remove excess juice and roughly chopped, to yield approximately 3 cups chopped tomatoes
  • 1/4 cup sliced basil about 8 leaves
  • 2 cups grated cheese combination of any two you'd like - I did mozzarella and cheddar
  • 3/4 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 teaspoon or more to taste hot sauce
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 375.
  2. Drizzle about 1 Tb olive oil in a heavy bottomed frying pan and warm over medium/low-heat. While it gets hot, slice the onion thinly. Add to pan and let cook, stirring every couple of minutes to keep from burning.
  3. While the onions cook, make your pie crust (easy, I promise!).
  4. Fill a glass with water and stick a couple of ice cubes in it. Whisk together flour and salt in a medium-sized bowl. Grate frozen butter into bowl. Take the ice water and measure out 2 TB into a measuring cup or glass. Crack the egg into the measured ice water and whisk together. Using your fingers, break up the butter if it clumps together to thoroughly combine everything. Pour in the egg-water mixture and stir with a hefty spoon (or use your fingers). Add a tablespoon or two of water if it seems dry (I needed close to another 2 TB).
  5. Gather all the dough into one lump if you're doing one pie and into six to eight pieces if you're doing individual servings. Sprinkle flour on wax or parchment paper or the counter and place your dough ball in the center, flattening it like a disk. Start rolling it out, working from the center to the outsides, until it's round(ish).
  6. Press into the individual dishes or the regular pie dish.
  7. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the edges just barely start to turn brown.
  8. While those bake, assemble everything else.
  9. Squeeze as much moisture as you can out of the chopped tomatoes (I dumped mine in a colander and pressed them with my potato masher).
  10. In a medium bowl, mix together the grated cheese, mayonnaise, hot sauce, and salt and pepper to taste. Combine well.
  11. Remove pie crust(s) from the oven and lower oven heat to 350.
  12. Divide cooked onion evenly among the pie dishes (or dump them all in your single pie crust).
  13. Add in the chopped tomatoes (should be fairly full when you've got these in).
  14. Sprinkle with chopped basil.
  15. Spread cheese mixture over the top of each dish.
  16. Place in oven (you might want to put them on a baking sheet in case the cheese bubbles over).
  17. Bake until browned and bubbly, anywhere from 25 to 45 minutes.
  18. Die of happiness. Wonder if your baby will notice if you feed her bananas while you inhale the entire (fine TWO entire) serving.

Recipe Notes

(adapted from Simply Recipes and Perry's Plate)