How to Make a Scrumptious Cheese and Onion Pie

A cheese and onion pie is great as an appetizer or serve it with a salad as your entree!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 2 unbaked pie shells
• 3 large Vidalia onions, thinly sliced
• butter
• olive oil
• 1/2 lb grated Italian cheese blend (Mozzarella, Provolone, Asiago, Parmesan, Romano)
• 1/2 lb. grated cheddar
• 2 T. flour
• 5 eggs
• 1-1/2 C milk
• 1/8 tsp. pepper
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/8 tsp. nutmeg

1. Preheat oven to 400°. Bake pie shells for 5 min. While pie shells bake, sauté onions in butter and olive oil until tender. Pour onions into baked pie shells.

2. Toss cheeses and flour in a separate bowl, then cover over onions. Beat together eggs, milk, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Pour over cheese and onions.

3. Place pies on baking sheet, bake for 20 minutes at 400°. Reduce heat to 300° and continue baking for another 15-20 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Check your pies the last ten minutes of baking to make sure they don't get too brown. Serve hot.
   
   * Also, try this: to the cheese mixture add meats such as chicken or ham, or seafood such as lobster, shrimp or crab meat.
   * For a vegetarian approach, you can add sun dried tomatoes, basil, garlic and pine nuts to the cheese mixture.

Tips & Warnings

• You can cover with tin foil to prevent the crust from burning.