Provencal-Style Vegetable Pie
Comments: Excellent hot, or cold.
Preparation time : 30 minutes
Baking time : 55 minutes
Sodium : 31 mg per serving
Servings: 8
IngredientsPreparation
  • 14 ounces [400 g] tomatoes
  • 7 ounces [200 g] zucchinis
  • 7 ounces [200 g] eggplant
  • 7 ounces [200 g] onions
  • 5 garlic cloves
  • 3 1/2 ounces [100 g] any color sweet peppers, membranes and seed removed
  • 4 teaspoons [20 mL] olive oil
  • Marjoram, to taste
  • Thyme, to taste
  • Pepper, to taste
  • 2 egg yolks, beaten
  • 3 1/2 ounces [100 mL] heavy cream
Salt-Free Dough
  • 2 1/4 cups - 1 1/2 tablespoons [300 g] flour
  • 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon + 1/2 teaspoon [150 g] sunflower margarine
  • Approxiamtely 2 1/2 tablespoons [37,5 mL] water
  • 1 small egg yolk, beaten [to brush]
  • Preheat oven to 400°F [200°C].
  • Prepare salt-free dough; leave dough to rest for approximately 5 to 10 minutes.
  • Roll dough into a circle, large enough to line an 11-inch [28-cm] buttered baking pan.
  • Rinse tomatoes, zucchinis and eggplant.
  • Cut each tomato into 4 segments; reserve.
  • Mince onions.
  • Crush garlic cloves.
  • Slice zucchinis and egg plat into rounds; cut sweet peppers into fine strips.
  • Heat olive oil into a casserole; brown minced onions.
  • Mix in zucchini and eggplant slices, sweet pepper strips, crushed garlic, marjoram and thyme; pepper mixture.
  • Cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
  • Remove from heat and mix in reserved tomato segments, beaten egg yolks and cream.
  • Prick bottom of dough with a fork.
  • Pour filling mixture into pastry shell.
  • Using a pastry brush, brush pastry rim all over with beaten egg yolk.
  • Bake pie into preheated oven, for 35 minutes.
Salt-Free Dough
  • Transfer flour into a bowl, make a well into the centre and cut in margarine, into tiny pieces.
  • With the tips of your fingers, mix margarine into flour.
  • Mix in just enough water to a firm dough.