Egg And Bacon Pie

We had this on Thursday for tea and there was enough pastry for 8 mini jam tarts to.

Here's the recipe 

You will need

1 bag of Tesco shortcrust pastry mix (had a bag lurking in the back of a cupboard)  64p

6 eggs 60p

1/2 a pack of cooking bacon 40p

8 heaped tsp of strawberry jam 8p

4 baking potatoes £1                                                   Total cost £2.72

Make up your pastry as per the instructions on the pack and roll out quite thinly

Line a pie dish with the pastry keeping some of the pastry to one side for the lid

Add 5 eggs slightly whisked together

Part cook the bacon, chop into bite sized pieces and add to the pie

Crack and add one egg to the center of the pie

Roll out the remaining pastry to create the lid trimming any excess pastry, crimp the edge of the pastry using your finger

As you can see I had some pastry left over

Which I turned into 8 mini jam tart cases

Place in the oven at 190 for half an hour keep checking though as all ovens are different

After about 15 mins in the oven pull out and add one heaped teaspoon of jam to each case and then return it all to the oven for the remaining 15 mins

I also turned the 4 baking potatoes into chips and deep fried to go with our pie. I am afraid I don't have any end result pictures as we were so hungry and promptly ate the lot.

So egg and bacon pie with chips plus 2 jam tarts each for pudding cost £2.72 for 4 people which works out at 68p per person for a dinner and dessert.

We also had a slice of zebra cake for supper which cost nothing as Brad had made it at school and brought it home with him.

He is becoming quite the little chef is our Brad

Much Love 

Claire xx xx xx