Spinach cheese pie with bacon, mushrooms and buttered fried onion topping
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- 5 strips bacon
Cook the bacon strips in a hot pan a couple of minutes until a little crispy but still a little soft; lift out, leaving the grease in.
- ½ whole yellow onion
Cook the diced onion in the bacon grease about five minutes until starting to turn translucent.
- butter
- ½ tbsp garlic paste
Add a knob of butter and the garlic paste; cook until fragrant, then spread on a sheet pan to cool.
- 1 pack cream cheese
- 2 tbsp soft butter
Cream the softened cream cheese with the soft butter.
- 10 oz defrosted spinach
- 4 whole eggs
Mix in the bacon, the squeezed spinach, the beaten eggs and the mushrooms and onions, breaking up the cream cheese clumps.
- 8 oz shredded Monterey Jack
Mix in the shredded Monterey Jack.
- kosher salt
- pepper
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes
Season with kosher salt and pepper and add the red pepper flakes.
Spread into a nine-inch tart pan with a removable bottom (or a nine-inch pie plate); an eight-inch would be too small, as it puffs.
- butter
- French fried onions
Melt butter in a pan, toss the French fried onions in it and toast about two minutes; take off the heat and cool in a separate pan.
Buttered crispy onion topping