Italian Snacks and Light Meals Recipes - Onion Flan (Pasticcio di Cipolle) Recipe

 

Ingredients

• 225 g/8 oz short crust pastry (basic pie crust)

• 15 ml/1 tbsp oil

• 450 g/1lb large onions, chopped

• 2 garlic cloves, chopped

• 20 anchovy fillets

• 20 olives, stoned (pitted) and halved

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Method:

1. Roll out and line a shallow, 23 cm/9 in flan tin (pie pan) with the pastry. Prick the bottom of the pastry with a fork.

2. Heat the oil in a frying pan (skillet). Add the onions and garlic and fry (sauté), stirring occasionally for 5 minutes.

3. Arrange the onion mixture in the pastry case (pie shell). Place the anchovies in a lattice pattern over the surface of the onions.

4. Press the olives into the surface of the onions and bake for 20 minutes in a preheated oven at 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5 until the pastry is golden.