Macaroni pie

Name: Macaroni pie
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 300 g mascarpone cheese; 150 ml double cream; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 200-250 g ready-made short-crust pastry; Plain flour, for dusting; Butter, for greasing; 170 g mature cheddar, finely grated; 150 g macaroni, cooked according to packet instructions

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mark Hix on Baking

By Mark Hix

Published 2012

About

I had something like this in Barbados some years ago which was delicious. I don’t think it’s a native Bajan recipe, but is more likely something that has made its way over from the States. Serve this extremely rich pie with a few dressed green salad leaves. It really doesn’t need anything else.

Ingredients

200-250 g ready-made short-crust pastry
Plain flour, for dusting
Butter, for greasing
300

Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4.

Roll out the pastry on a floured table to about 2mm thick. Lightly grease a 25 x 3cm deep loose-bottomed flan tin, line it with the pastry and trim the edges. Line with foil or greaseproof paper, fill with a layer of baking beans and