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Pascualina

A savoury pie made with chard, whole eggs and cheese, enclosed in puff or shortcrust pastry. Very common in families of Italian origin, it is eaten warm or cold, for lunch or on a picnic.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Garniture

Spices & seasoning

Optional extras

On the side

Instructions

  1. Wash the chard, separate the stalks from the leaves, chop the stalks into pieces and the leaves into strips.
  2. Sweat the onion and garlic in the oil, add the stalks for 5 minutes, then the leaves until they wilt, about 8 minutes. Let it cool.
  3. Preheat the oven to 190 °C. Roll out half the pastry and line a buttered 24 cm round tin, leaving the edges overhanging.
  4. Mix the ricotta, grated cheese, cream, parsley and nutmeg, then fold in the cooled chard and season.
  5. Spread the filling over the base, make 4 little hollows and crack the whole eggs into them.
  6. Cover with the rest of the pastry, seal the edges, prick a few holes and bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until golden. Let it rest for 10 minutes before unmoulding.

Variations and tips

Cheese-free version. Replace the ricotta with mashed silken tofu and the grated cheese with nutritional yeast for a vegetarian version.

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Original Ecomely recipe.