Lesley sent me this Thick Onion Tart recipe recently…

Serves 4, make in a 20cm tin

Pastry
100g flour 3p
Pinch salt
2 tsps mustard
40ml oil 4p
Up to 40ml water
40g cheese (Asda Smartprice Cheddar £4.82/kg) 20p

Filling
700g onions, chopped 32p (Asda Smartprice 49p/kg)
50g butter 24p
2 eggs 20p
110ml milk 6p
60g cheese 30p

Mix all the pastry ingredients together, adding the water bit by bit until you get a soft ball of dough.
Melt the butter in a frying pan, add the onions and sauté them slowly, uncovered, over a low heat for 30-45 minutes, until they have turned a deep brown. Stir them every now and then, particularly towards the end. Then let cool a little

Line your dish with the pastry.

Tip the remaining ingredients, except the cheese, into the onions (they can’t be too hot, or they will scramble the eggs) and stir well. Tip this mixture into the pastry case and top with the cheese. Bake in a moderate oven (180C) for 30 minutes.

This is lovely hot with salady things, or cooked veg, and also makes a very nice lunch, cold, the next day
Total £1.39, 35p per person

Lesley.

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