Courgette and cheese pie

From https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/lincolnshire-poacher-pie/

Serves 4

This was an amazingly delicious way to use up a large number of courgettes. Jamie's right: cooking them in this way makes them absolutely delicious!

Vegetarian (depending on cheese)

Ingredients

300 g Lincolnshire Poacher cheese (this is a delicious cheese worth buying, but you could substitute with a decent mature cheddar)

a small bunch of fresh mint , leaves picked

250 g rock salt

24 shallots

a few sprigs of fresh thyme

PASTRY

500 g plain flour , plus extra for dusting

250 g cold unsalted butter , cubed

white pepper

1 large free-range egg , beaten

FILLING

olive oil

a bunch of fresh thyme

1 whole nutmeg , for grating

1 lemon

1.5 kg courgettes, a mixture of yellow and green if you can get them , finely sliced

Directions

  1. We didn't change anything from the original method, so head over to https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/lincolnshire-poacher-pie/ for the how to.

This recipe tastes even better made with vegetables from Community Harvest Whetstone :)