Ricotta and silverbeet pie

Yes I do like cooking pies and I do like silverbeet and cheese. And I like being able to come home and just cook something from ingredients I have lying around. So this is another pie that I am making in puff pastry - even though it could be made in phyllo which I also have on hand.

Ingredients

Half bunch silverbeet (including stalks)

2 spring onions

2 garlic cloves

1 tsp Sambal oelek

1 tsp crushed ginger

375 gr ricotta

2 sheets frozen puff pastry

Poppyseeds 

Mode

Place a steamer on the stove and bring water to the boil

Remove pastry from freezer to thaw

Turn on oven to preheat to 180c

Meanwhile roughly chop half a bunch of silverbeet including white stalks

Add to steamer

Chop spring onions and add to steamer

Crush garlic and ginger and add to steamer

Add Sambal oelek

Steam until vegetables tender

Place one sheet of pastry in the bottom of a square oven dish

Spoon the vegetables onto the pastry

Spoon the ricotta over the vegetables 

Place the second sheet of pastry over the vegetables and cheese

Fold the two sheets of pastry together and press to seal

Sprinkle poppyseed on top

Cook in 180c oven for 45 minutes

Salmon pie

I puzzled for a while this evening about what to cook but then decided I needed some comfort food. Hmm I had some salmon, some silver beet and red pepper. All I needed to do was thaw the pastry, turn on the oven and steam the silver beet!

Ingredients

3 silverbeet leaves including stalks

1 spring onion

1 clove of garlic crushed

1 tsp Sambal oelek

1 tsp crushed ginger root

2 sheets frozen puff pastry

450 gr skinned salmon fillets

1 red pepper

Poppyseeds

Mode

Place water in steamer to boil

Preheat the oven to 180c

Take the pastry sheets from freezer to thaw

Roughly chop the silverbeet and stalks and add to steamer

Chop spring onion and add to steamer

Add garlic, ginger and Sambal oelek to vegetables 

Add lid to steamer bring to boil

Place a thawed sheet of pastry on the bottom on a baking dish

Arrange the salmon fillets on top of it

Roughly chop the red pepper and add to the salmon

Spoon the steamed vegetables on top

Cover with other slice of pastry and pinch edges to seal

Sprinkle poppyseeds on top

Bake in 180c oven for 45 minutes