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Mini ham and cheese potato pie with mushroom cream sauce

Small delicious potato pies, filled with cooked ham and scamorza cheese and covered with a delicious mushroom creamy sauce, ideal for a party or a last minute dinner
Preparazione 5 minuti
Cottura 30 minuti
Tempo totale 1 ora 5 minuti
Portata Appetizer, Dinner, Pie
Cucina Italian
Porzioni 5 people

Ingredienti
  

Potato pies

  • 500 gr peeled potatoes
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tablespoon grated pecorino cheese
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch pepper
  • 1 pinch nutmeg
  • 100 gr cooked ham
  • 100 gr diced scamorza cheese

Mushroom creamy sauce

  • 200 gr mushrooms thinly sliced
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 20 gr chopped parsley
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 20 ml milk
  • 20 ml white wine
  • 2 tablespoon breadcrumbs

Istruzioni
 

  • Cut the peeled potatoes into chunks and put them in a microwave safe bowl with a little water.
  • Cover with plastic wrap, make little holes with a knife and put it in the microwave at maximum power for ten minutes. Verify that the potatoes are cooked, it may take five additional minutes.
  • Let it cool.
  • While the potatoes are cooking, prepare the sauce. Wash the mushrooms quickly and cut them into slices.
  • Add olive oil into a skillet and when it's warm add the clove of garlic.
  • Add mushrooms, salt and wine and stir occasionally.
  • Add milk, cover with a lid and reduce heat and simmer until slightly reduced and thickened, in about ten minutes.
  • Turn off the flame, keep two table spoon of mushrooms and whisk all the others. Garnish with parsley.
  • Smash the potatoes and add the egg, pecorino cheese and season with the pinch of salt, pepper and nutmeg and stir until all the ingredients will be blended.
  • Preheat oven at 200°C
  • Grease 5 baking cups and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
  • Take a generous spoonful of the potato mixture and put it in the cups and with your wet fingers make a hollow in the center.
  • Put the cooked ham and the scamorza in the hollow and close with other potato mixture.
  • Cook in oven for 20 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and let cool (otherwise the pie will collapse). Turn the pie upside down on a serving plate and glaze with the mushroom sauce
Keyword Pie