Recipe - Ham Loaves

375 g Shortcrust pastry; (12oz)
1 tablespoon Olive oil
1 Onion; chopped
2 Cloves garlic; crushed
1 lg Courgette; cut or sliced up
1 Yellow pepper; minced
1 397 gram can chopped
tomatoes; (14oz)
2 tablespoon Freshly chopped parsley
1 tablespoon Tomato puree
Salt and freshly ground
black pepper
1 113 gram pac outdoor reared
gammon ham; cut into large
; cubes (4oz)
1 150 gram pac mozarella
cheese; cubed
1 Egg; size 3, beaten

1. Preheat the oven to 200øC/400øF/Gas Mark 6.

2. Roll out Three fourths of the pastry and use to line a 20cm (8 inch) fluted flan
case.

3. Bake blind in the preheated oven on the middle oven shelf for 1015
minutes.

4. Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the onion, garlic, courgette and pepper
and cook for 34 minutes.

5. Add the tomatoes, parsley, tomato puree and seasoning and cook for 10
minutes.

6. Stir in the ham and mozarella cheese and spoon into the pastry case.

7. Roll out the remaining pastry and cut into 1 cm (One half inch) strips. Lay
the strips diagonally across the pastry case to make a lattice effect.

8. Brush with the egg and return to the oven for a further 3040 minutes,
until golden brown.

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NOTES : A delicious supper dish served with new potatoes and a leafy salad,
alternatively an ideal picnic dish.

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.