GREEN PARCEL PIE
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 100g/4oz soft cream cheese with chives
- 1 tablespoon ready-grated parmesan
- or similar vegetarian hard cheese
- black pepper
- 60g/2oz courgette
- grated
- 50ml/2fl oz rapeseed oil
- 3 sheets filo pastry
- pinch of pepper
Directions
- Wash your hands and put on an apron. Weigh or measure all the ingredients. Ask a grown-up to preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- Start by making the pie filling. Break an egg into a bowl then beat with afork. Then add the cream cheese and mix into the egg until well combined. Add the parmesan and some black pepper. Stir well
- then add the grated courgette and give the mixture another good stir.
- Brush the inside of a small (500g) loaf tin with the oil and line with a sheet of filo pastry with the extra falling over the outside of the tin.
- Brush with more oil
- then lay another sheet on top creating extra overlap on the side. Brush that layer with oil
- then add the third sheet on top.
- Pour your eggy filling into the pie then fold the extra pastry over the top
- a layer at a time
- hiding the filling. Dot the pastry with oil as you build the layers. Finally dab the top of filo pastry with more oil.
- Ask a grown-up to put it in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until the filo topping is golden-brown and crisp.

