Tuna Pie

Background

After making a Sweet and Sour Chicken dish one night I was impressed with how good the baked chicken tasted. The extra effort was rewarded with a great tasting dish. This inspired me to want to cook a nice meal the following night. Some time after dinner I picked up the recipe book that Luke was given for Christmas as a present from his parents. The first dish was Tuna Pie. I had a tin of tuna in the cupboard that had no purpose yet so I decided to give it a go. Like all good chefs on a budget, you learn to improvise. Following is a copy of the original recipe.

 

Tuna Pie

Shell:

2 cups cooked rice

1small onion

1 egg

1 oz butter

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 } Mix together and press into 20cm (9") pie Dish.
   

Filling:

7 oz tune (small tin) - reserve liquid

2 beaten eggs

4 oz Cheese

3/4 cup of milk

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1/4 tsp dry mustard

1 dsp chopped parsley

1 small onion chopped

Drain Tuna (keep liquid). Flake Tuna over shell. Combine all ingredients including liquid. Pour over tuna. Bake in Moderate oven for 1 hour.

 

 

Here is a picture of the finished product (after dinner) and my preparation method

 

 
  • Cook the rice which looks like it might be 2 cups when cooked.
  • Combine the rice with an onion that was finely chopped, an egg, a heaped dessert spoon of butter and lots of salt and pepper.
  • Create a base and sides with this in a glass dish because there are no pie dishes. Use the back of a spoon to sculpt evenly around the dish.
  • open the tin of tuna (which happens to be the cheapest that the supermarket had) and save the fluid.
  • Press tuna lightly and evenly onto the base that you have prepared. This is because this tuna wasn't in flakes.
  • In another dish, combine 2 beaten eggs with 2 small hand fulls of grated mature cheddar cheese,  salt and pepper, 3/4 desert spoon of English mustard (no dry), 1 dessert spoon of chopped parsley, the tuna oil, 2 heaped dessert spoons of butter and another finely chopped onion.
  • don't add the milk (because I forgot).
  • Also combine grated parmesan cheese and shallots. These were added because Wendy was making a salad on the same chopping board and they somehow ended up in my dish.
  • Add a small amount of dried chilli flakes.
  • Carefully pour on top of dish and bake for 1 hour at 180c. Add grated cheese to the top 5 minutes before the end.

 

The pie tasted really good. I enjoyed it some much that I decided I wanted to keep a copy of the recipe. Instead of writing it down on a piece of paper I made a web page. This way you to can have a go at it and I don't have to keep a copy on paper. I would also like to note that Luke continuously explained how my dish was not like his mum's. "To much rice!", "It's not going to cook in the middle", etc. Eventually he said he would stop giving advice because it was "Neil's Pie" and not his mum's. In the end he had a second helping.

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