24 September 2020

Resident recipe – cheese and potato pie

Rose Dickerson, resident at Arlington Manor Care Home, has shared her warming recipe for cheese and potato pie.

Ingredients

• Maris Piper potatoes
• Grated cheese of your choice
• Butter, as much as preferred for mashed potatoes
• Optional sliced tomatoes to decorate the top
• Optional half or a small onion

Method

1. Put the oven on to 180^oc
2. Peel and slice potatoes enough for two layers of mashed potato
3. Put in a saucepan of cold water
4. Bring to the boil and then boil until soft (I put a knife into the potatoes to see if they are cooked but don’t let the potatoes over cook.
5. Grease an ovenproof dish of your choice
6. Drain the potatoes and mash them with butter
7. Then put the lid on to keep them hot
8. Optional step: slice and fry your onion
9. Slice a tomato as decoration for the top of the pie
10. In the greased dish put in a layer of cheese then put on top a layer of potato then another layer of cheese and keep layering until you have used all the potatoes and cheese
11. Put the sliced tomato on the top
12. Put it carefully in the oven
13. Cook for about 20 – 30 minutes depending on your oven until brown on the top

Serve as a meal or to accompany a main meal.

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