Pie recipes - 107 recipes
Our picnic recipes are just what you need on a sunny weekend, bring the blankets - and a wicker hamper if you're feeling quaint - and feast on sandwiches, salads, cold meats and all sorts of chutneys, relishes and jams to add a zing to your munches. Don't forget the desserts for your picnics either - bring along a whole cake or pick something from our range of cupcake and tart ideas - perfect for finishing off your picnic!
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Top rated Pie recipes
Shepherd's Pie (beef mince)
By Mrstilly
Peel potatoes and set on stove to cook
- 3 large potatoes
- 1lb organic beef steak mince
- 1 large onion
- 1 organic beef stock cube
- Dash of Worcester sauce
- Enough water to cover ingredients in saucepan
- Organic Cheese for topping
- Knob of butter and dash of milk for mashed potatoes
Traditional Family Fish Pie
By AdzDalton
Selection of fish topped with soft creamy mash
- Approx 2lb of selected fishes (smoked haddock, cod, prawns, salmon)
- Cornflour
- Milk
- 2lb Potatoes
- Butter
- Cheese (optional)
Gluten-free No-bake Banoffee Pie
By whatsfortea
A great no-bake Banoffee Pie, delicious and gluten-free!
- 1-1 1/2 Packs of gluten free biscuits (depending on size of pack and size of your serving dish).
- Optional-handful of gluten free fibre flakes
- several knobs of butter
- 3 or 4 ripe bananas
- 1 to 1 1/2 small tins of caramel flavour condensed milk (approx 350g)
- 1 large tub of whipping cream
- Chocolate sprinkles
ultimate makeover: Fish pie
By hanzvallance
Mix 3 tbsp of the milk into the cornflour and set aside
- 500ml semi-skimmed milk
- 3 tbsp cornflour
- 100g cooked prawns in their shells
- several thyme sprigs, preferably lemon thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 750g new potatoes, such as Charlotte (no need to peel)
- 1 medium leek, thinly sliced (175g prepared weight)
- 400g skinned haddock fillet
- 350g skinned salmon fillet
- 175g skinned smoked haddock fillet
- 125g tub low-fat soft cheese with garlic & herbs
- 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp snipped chives
How to Make Awesome Banoffee Pie
By Fay
Follow this easy recipe to make a simply irresistible Banoffee Pie - one of our most brilliant British dessert dish
- 250g of finely crushed chocolate/ plain digestive biscuits
- 100g melted butter
- 3 large thinly sliced over ripe bananas
- 1 x 397g tin of Carnation Caramel
- 300ml of double or whipping cream, whipped to soft peaks
- 1 chocolate Flake bar
Leek,onion and mushroom pie
By Alisha1
Beautiful short crust pastry filled with succulent seasoned mince and herbs
- Filling
- 500g mince
- Gravy
- 1 Leek,6 mushroom, 2 onions,garlic
- Chives,mixed herbs,salt and all purpose seasoning
- Pastry
- 420g plain flour
- 220 of butter or pastry fat
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- 2 egg s Beaten (reserve a little of the egg to glaze the pie)
Romantic Chocolate Kissing Pie
By Vick11, Foodie
A rich chocolate tart with big pieces of chocolate on the top
- 1 bar dark (melted)
- ½ bar milk (cut into chunks)
- 25g butter
- 2 tablespoon strong coffee
- 1 tablespoon coffee liqueur
- 2 pastry cases
Easy chicken & mushroom pie
By Mrstilly
Roughly chop the onions and mushrooms and cut the chicken into 1" cubes
- 2 large onions
- 450g chicken breast
- 200g mushrooms
- 1 desert spoon tomato pure (optional)
- 1 desert spoon garlic pure (optional)
- 1 egg
- 2 tins of soup - chicken, mushroom or 1 of each
- 1 pack of defrosted puff pastry
- Knob of butter
- Teaspoon olive oil
good and proper steak pie
By lawriemc2013
this one is a favourite
- Serves: 6
- 6 rump steaks
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion
- 2 glasses red wine
- 1 litre beef stock
- 2 egg yolks
- 500g puff pastry
Romantic Apple pie
By Vah11
These apple pie are delicious and easy to make
- 300g short crust pastry
- 300g cooking apple
- 100g sugar
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Clonakilty Blackpudding Topped...
- 200g Clonakilty Blackpudding
- 800g Fish – Haddock, Smoked Cod, Salmon
- 200g Frozen Green Peas
- 2 Hard Boiled Free Range Eggs (optional)
- 600ml Full-fat Milk
- 1 Small Onion Quartered
- 4 Cloves
- 2 Bay Leaves
- 100g Butter
- 50g Plain Flour
- Salt and Pepper
- 1 Kg potatoes peeled and halved
- Flat Leaf Parsley, Chervil, Chives
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Red velvet Whoope Pie
- 75g unsalted butter
- 125g soft sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 175g plain flour
- 50ml buttermilk
- 1 tsp red food colouring
- For the icing
- 50g soft cheese
- 30g unsalted butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 225g icing sugar
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Simple Cottage Pie
- 500g Minced Beef
- 1 Large Onion
- 3 Carrots
- A Handful of Peas
- Tomato Purée
- Gravy Granules
- 5-6 Potatoes
- Butter
- Milk
- Cheese (optional)
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Fuss Free Cottage Pie
- 250g lean steak mince
- 6 medium size potatoes
- ½ onion
- 2 sticks of celery
- 2 carrots
- 200g mushrooms
- 1tsp sage
- 1tsp cracked black pepper
- ½tsp dried parsley
- 1tbsp gravy granules
- 1tsp mustard
- 1tbsp butter
- Milk
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Blackberry & Apple Crunchy Pie
- For the pie:
- 2lb approx blackberries and apples
- ½ cup water
- 1 handful sugar
- 6 oz caster sugar
- 6 oz margarine
- 3 medium free-range eggs
- 8 oz self-raising flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- For homemade custard:
- 2 tbsp real custard powder (I use Bird's)
- 2 tbsp sugar
- ¾ pint semi-skimmed milk
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Easy Peasy Cottage Pie
- 250g Butcher's Selection Lean Beef Steak Mince or Lean Beef Steak Mince
- 1 small onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 tbsp. tomato ketchup
- 100ml beef stock (made with half a stock cube)
- 1 tbsp. brown sauce
- Half 400g pack Fresh Tastes Carrot and Peas
- 2 level tsp. corn flour
- 300g Maris Piper, Desiree or King Edward potatoes (peeled weight), cut into even-sized pieces
- 300g Sweet Potatoes (peeled weight), cut into even-sized pieces
- 2 tbsp milk
- 15g butter
- 15g grated Cheddar cheese
- Trimmed Fine Beans, to serve
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Steak Pie
- For Pastry:
- 6oz Plain Flour
- 2oz Margarine
- 1 Egg
- Small drop of Water
- For Filling:
- 400g Stewing Steak
- Gravy
- Milk for glazing the pie
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Quorn cottage pie
- 60g Quorn Mince
- 1 clove Garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 medium Onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 medium Carrot, raw, grated
- 1/2 medium Courgette, grated
- 120 g Potato, Raw, Cut into 1cm disks
- 2 teaspoons Gravy Granules, Dry
- 1 tablespoons Tomato Purèe
- Fry Light FryLight Sunflower Oil
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Timeless Apple Pïe
- 1&1/2lbs Apples
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 100g Sugar
- 4 - 6 tbsp Cold water
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 25g Sugar
- Deep Heat proof dish
- Preheat oven to Gas mark 7
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Delicious pie
- 2 medium potatoes,
- 200g chopped cooking bacon or lardons,
- A small chopped onion,
- A handful of mushrooms,
- A tin of mushroom soup,
- 50g cheese
- Salt, pepper and mixed herbs to season.
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Apple and Nutella pie
- For a 26 cm cake tin :
- 400 grams of flour type 00
- 180/200 grams of sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 apples (about 300g )
- 130 grams of vegetable oil
- 150 ml of milk
- 130 grams of Nutella
- a small packet of yeast
- a teaspoon of vanilla extract
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Festive Mini Mince Pie Pastries
- 1 x 375g sheet ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
- 1 x sheet of ready rolled puff pastry
- 300g jar of mincemeat
- Zest of one orange
- handful of dried cranberries and sour cherries
- 1 egg, beaten
- 100 g icing sugar sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
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