Friday Pie-Day: Egg Pied Rice

A while back, I randomly thought up this recipe name and since then, wondered what this might consist of. Then one day, AHA, it came to me: a scrambled egg (and friends) filling encased in rice!

Do you think it works?

It wasn't too hard to make actually. Looking back, it might have been better to make this with basmati rice, rather than plain rice, as it has a bit more flavour when baked.

The rice in this dish goes nice and crusty which is not to everyone's taste but I've always loved the crusty bits at the bottom of the rice cooker :-)

But I warn you now, it's very tricky trying to cut this into neat pie slices! I eventually managed to get a decent-looking slice that looked like a real pie (I thought so anyway...) You'll need to cut through the crusty base a few times so you don't end up with the filling toppling out everywhere when you try to lift a slice out and find that it's still stuck to the rest of the pie at the base. (I didn't make this mistake at all...)

Egg Pied Rice

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For an 8" pie dish (serves 3-4):

300g rice
3 large eggs, beaten with a bit of soy sauce
3 unsmoked bacon rashers, chopped
large handful of frozen peas
large handful of sweetcorn
small red onion, chopped
1 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp oyster sauce

1) Put the rice in a pan with water up to about half a centimetre above the rice. Bring to the boil, then turn right down and cover. Leave for 20 minutes.
2) Preheat oven to 240 degrees C. Pour the eggs into a hot wok and remove when cooked through.
4) Fry the bacon and onion, followed by the peas and sweetcorn. Return the egg back in to mix together, adding the oyster sauce.
5) Lightly butter a pie dish. Sprinkle the paprika evenly across the base and sides.
6) Spoon a layer of rice evenly onto the base, pushing outwards to cover the sides as well.
7) Tip the egg filling into the middle, and cover over with the rest of the rice.
8) Dot a little butter over the top, cover with foil and bake on the bottom shelf for about 45 minutes.

And there you have it - Egg Pied Rice!

Pie out.

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