Corn pie — cropped photograph of the dish

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Corn pie

Corn pie

Corn pie

Creamy and sweet-savory corn pie, filled with beef, black olives, raisins, eggs, and parmesan.

Creamy and sweet-savory corn pie, filled with beef, black olives, raisins, eggs, and parmesan.

Creamy and sweet-savory corn pie, filled with beef, black olives, raisins, eggs, and parmesan.

Préparation
12 min
Cuisson
1 hr to 1 hr 05 mins
Difficulté
Intermediate

Ingrédients

Les quantités s’adaptent automatiquement.

4 convives
  • 25 clvegetable oil
  • 1 tbspgarlic paste
  • 1 oniondiced onion
  • 400 gbeef fillet, cut into 1 cm cubes
  • 3 tbsppitted and chopped black olives
  • 65 graisins soaked in hot water
  • 1 eggraw egg
  • 2 eggschopped hard-boiled eggs
  • 6 earsears of corn
  • 15 clyellow chili paste
  • 25 clwhole milk
  • 200 gcaster sugar
  • 1 tbspsel
  • 150 ggrated parmesan
  • 4 sprigsthym or parsley for garnish, optional
  • to tasteblack pepper

Préparation

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
  2. Heat half of the oil and sauté the garlic paste with two-thirds of the onion for three minutes.
  3. Add the beef, olives, raisins, and hard-boiled eggs. Cook for four to five minutes until the meat is browned, then season with salt and pepper.
  4. Husk the ears of corn and puree the kernels in a blender.
  5. Heat the remaining oil. Sauté the remaining onion with the yellow chili paste, then add the corn puree and milk. Cook, stirring, until the corn is just cooked through.
  6. Add the sugar and salt, remove from the heat, then stir in the raw egg and four tablespoons of parmesan cheese.
  7. Pour half of the corn mixture into a baking dish. Add the meat filling, cover with the remaining corn, and finish with the parmesan.
  8. Bake for forty to forty-five minutes until the pie is cooked and golden brown. Let cool, unmold, cut into four pieces, and decorate.

The suggested quantities are a starting point: adjust the seasoning and cooking time according to the products used.