Name: Torta di Cipolle (Onion Savory Pie)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 3 large eggs, beaten; 2 pounds/900 g sweet onions, chopped; Fine sea salt; 2 large potatoes, peeled, cut in half, boiled, cooled, mashed; 3 tablespoons/45 ml Ligurian extravirgin olive oil; 4 tablespoons/30 g unsalted butter; Freshly ground black pepper; 1 cup/115 g freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Recipes from Paradise

By Fred Plotkin

Published 1997

About

Try to locate sweet onions, which will give this pie a lovely flavor.

Ingredients

1 basic torta recipe #1
3 tablespoons/45 ml Ligurian extravirgin olive oil

Method

Heat the olive oil and butter together in a large pan and sauté the onions until they are translucent. Let cool slightly. Then combine the onions with the mashed potatoes, the beaten eggs, grated cheese, salt and pepper to taste. You should use more pepper than usual.

Place one layer of dough in the bottom of a lightly oiled baking dish. Then fill the shell with filling. Add the top lay