Sausage Leek Pie Recipes

SAUSAGE, LEEK, AND POTATO PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the leeks, onions, and garlic and cook until onions are just soft.
• Prick the potatoes all over with a fork. Microwave for three minutes on high heat, until slightly soft and partially cook. Let cool, then slice into 1/2 inch slices.
• Grease a pie dish or casserole dish with butter. Layer the potatoes in the dish and top with the cooked veggies, sliced sausage, and parsley.
• To make the cheese sauce, melt the butter in a medium-sized pot over medium heat. Add the flour and cook for about three minutes, or until flour is just beginning to brown. Add the salt, black pepper, and milk and continue to cook until mixture has thickened and sticks to the back of a wooden spoon, about 5-8 minutes. Remove from heat and add the shredded cheese. Stir until cheese has melted.
• Pour cheese sauce over the sausage and potatoes. Lay the sheet of puff pastry over the dish, trim the edges if necessary. Whisk the egg and brush over the puff pastry. Cut little slits in the pastry to let steam and air out.
• Bake the pie in preheated oven for 1 hour. Broil for a few minutes if necessary to brown the pastry.

SAUSAGE & MASH PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas 6.
• Peel the potatoes, chop into even-sized chunks and cook in a large pan of boiling salted water for 15 minutes, or until tender.
• Meanwhile, brown the sausages in a large non-stick casserole pan on a medium heat, tossing regularly (if using veggie sausages, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil), while you trim the leeks, halve lengthways, wash and slice 1cm thick.
• Peel, core and chop the apples into 1cm chunks. Once golden, remove the sausages to a plate, put the leek and apple into the pan and strip in most of the thyme. Add a splash of water, season with sea salt and black pepper, then cover and cook for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Drain the potatoes, mash with half the flour, then season to perfection. Lightly rub a 20cm x 28cm baking dish with oil. Once the mash is cool enough to handle, use your fingertips to spread two thirds of it evenly across the base and sides of the dish.
• Stir the remaining flour into the leeks, then gradually stir in the milk, then the mustard. Simmer for 5 minutes, or until thick and creamy.
• Slice the sausages 1cm thick and stir most of them into the pan, along with any juices, then evenly spoon into the mash-lined dish.
• Press the remaining mash on to a sheet of greaseproof paper until just bigger than your dish, then flip over the top of the dish, peel off the paper, trim any excess and crimp the edges with a fork to seal.
• Poke the reserved sausage slices into the top, then gently brush with 1 tablespoon of oil. Bake at the bottom of the oven for 40 minutes, or until golden, adding the remaining thyme leaves for the last 5 minutes.

CHICKEN, SAUSAGE, AND LEEK PIE

Steps:

• Add 2 T olive oil to pan over medium heat, add leeks and cook 10 minutes. Add chicken and sausage and cook until lightly browned and remove from the pan. Add 3 T butter and 2 T olive oil and flour, cook 1 minute, then add broth, milk, parsley, chives, tarragon and salt & pepper to taste. Set aside 3/4 c sauce. Add back in the chicken mixture to remaining sauce and turn off.
• Roll out 2/3 of the pastry crust into a pie pan. Spoon in mixture. Roll out remaining crust and cut into strips and place over pie.
• Bake at 425 for 20-25 minutes and serve with remaining sauce.