British

Cheese and Onion Pie

Name: Cheese and Onion Pie
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 3 onion; 3 cups shredded cheddar; 2 tbsp butter; 2 pie crust; 1 tbsp milk; 20 oz baked beans; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

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Cheese and Onion Pie is British home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

65 min Medium Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 onion
3 cups shredded cheddar
2 tbsp butter
2 pie crust
1 tbsp milk
20 oz baked beans
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 400F.
Slice the onions and cook in the butter over medium-low heat until very soft and golden, about 15 minutes, then cool slightly and season with salt and pepper.
Line a pie dish with one pie crust and layer in the cooked onion and cheddar.
Top with the second crust, sealing and trimming the edges, and brush with the milk.
Bake until deeply golden, about 35 minutes.
Heat the baked beans and serve alongside the pie.

Watch how to cook Cheese and Onion Pie

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

How to make a chip shop style Cheese and Onion Pie | A British Classic! Play the video

Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cheese and Onion Pie, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cauliflower Cheese
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cheese and Onion Pie carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Cheese and Onion Pie
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
Gluten	Yes	Bubble and Squeak
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 670 kcal
Protein: 23 g
Carbs: 51 g
Fat: 42 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 8 g
Sodium: 1000 mg
Saturated fat: 22 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Cheese and Onion Pie takes about 65 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.