Leek Globe Artichoke Pie Recipes

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, melt the teaspoon of butter over medium heat. Add the leek and 1 tablespoon of water. Cover and cook, steaming the leeks for about 5 minutes, until very tender.
• Add the salt, then the cream, and warm through. Remove the saucepan from the heat, puree the mixture in a blender and strain through a fine strainer. Makes 1 1/2 cups.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees.
• Butter a gratin dish with 1 tablespoon of butter. Set aside.
• In a large frying pan over medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the onions and sweat them down, cooking for 20 minutes until caramelized and full of flavor. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside.
• To the pan, which is off the heat but still warm, add the spinach, artichokes, eggs, thyme, parsley, leek crema and nutmeg. Gently mix together and season with the salt and pepper. Pour this into your buttered gratin dish and top with Parmesan and breadcrumbs.
• Bake for 30 minutes. Serve warm.

Steps:

• Saute artichokes in olive oil til softened.
• season with garlic salt.
• While artichokes cool slightly, in bowl beat eggs.
• grate mozzarella cheese into eggs then add artichoke mixture & mix well.
• Pour mixture into a pie shell, sprinkle on parm. cheese then top with other inverted shell.
• Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
• Note: 2nd pie shell may break up a bit, just piece it together as best you can, it tates so good it doesnt matter.
• This also reheats in microwave nicely the next day for breakfast lunch & dinner!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute garlic until it starts to brown. Stir in the artichoke hearts and cook 10 minutes before adding the bread crumbs and half of the parmesan cheese. When heated through, transfer half of artichoke mixture to pie crust.
• Pour eggs over artichoke mixture and sprinkle in the rest of the parmesan cheese. Spoon the rest of the artichoke mixture into the pie and top with mozzarella cheese.
• Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until crust begins to brown.