Not just
kids will love these Mini Cheerio Pies –
and they are so versatile as well – you can change up the ingredients to your
hearts content. These are called pies but there is no pastry involved.
Ingredients
1 cup diced
potato and kumara (sweet potato)
2 eggs
¼ cup of
milk
1 zucchini
(courgette) grated (and squeezed as dry as you can)
1 tblsp
chopped parsley
100g grated
cheese
8 cheerios
(small cocktail sausages)
1 tblsp
breadcrumbs
Salt and
pepper
Method
Cook your
diced potato/kumara mix in salted water for 5 minutes - your potatoes need to
be a dice not in chunks so they'll cook evenly
Drain and
let this cool while you are heating your oven up to 180C
Line your
muffin tins (I need to buy some new ones – my cheapos are now rusting)
In a bowl,
whisk together your eggs and milk with some salt and pepper to taste. Then add all the other ingredients except the
cheerios, half the cheese and the breadcrumbs.
Mix
Spoon your
mixture into the muffin cups, putting the remaining cheese on top – pop half a
cheerio on top of each and sprinkle with breadcrumbs – if my cheerios had been
a bit smaller I would have nestled a whole one into each muffin cup.
Bake for 20
minutes or so. These were good straight
from the oven and also the next day from the fridge and also freeze well. These quantities made 9 pies
Variations
you could try include changing the
cheese to cream cheese or blue cheese.
You could add other veges as long as they weren't too watery. And spices such as cayenne, paprika or cumin
(in small amounts) would also be tasty.
Sounds easy enough and a nice treat. In the USA Cheerios is a type of breakfast cereal! This sounds better.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, and I was thinking this involved breakfast cereal. Sounds like it would be great with cocktails, or parties. We call them pupus here in Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of cheerio sausages before -- I thought you were referring to the cereal. :) These mini pies are adorable.
ReplyDeleteI was looking for breakfast cereal too!
ReplyDeleteColloquially we call those small sausages "little boys"
I could a massive amount of these babies! Great recipe.
ReplyDeleteToo funny, I'm with the others and only know Cheerios as a cereal. I had to come check out what you were up to over here ;-)
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