Sausage and Onion Tart with easy Corn Meal Crust

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This sausage and onion tart is very easy to make as the crust is made with an easy corn meal batter.  Don’t be fooled by the picture.  It is neither a Pizza nor a Tart.  

I call it a tart as I baked it in a tart pan and it looks like a tart.  It’s more like a Greek open faced pie, which we call “plastos”.

This tart was not in the menu yesterday.  Actually, I was planning to make Fakes Moudjentra (lentils with rice) and when I opened the closet to get the onions and saw that I had only one small one left.

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That’s not a problem any more because we still have a lot of onions in our garden.  During winter, we planted a couple of varieties and we ate a lot while they were still green.

However, we still have a lot and I took a bag with me and pulled some out of the soil.  I don’t know much about gardening but I noticed that the bulbs were divided in two, some times in three parts, although each bulb was planted separately and spaced apart.

I also noticed something which I never came across with onions I buy from the farmers’ market.  The inner part of some of them, where the green leaves used to be, was hard inside, which I had to remove before chopping.

Anyway, I put them in the sink and removed the withered leaves. When they were cleaned I took a  few photos which I posted on Facebook.

 

While posting a description I wrote “freshly picked onions, now I want to make an onion pie” and without second thought I forgot about the lentils and started thinking how I could make the pie with the ingredients I had at home. Hmmm, I liked the idea.

To my regret, I discovered that I had no feta in the fridge because our local supermarket was doing some kind of renovation and all their refrigerators were empty.  

I did have some leftover grated gouda cheese and had some sausages from yesterday’s recipe Gemista me Loukanika (sausages), which were wrapped and stored in the deep freezer, as i did not anticipate to use them again soon.

I noticed that the sausage can be cut much easier to cut when frozen, as well as removing the casing was easier.   

As I mentioned in my previous post, don’t use sausages that you do not like.  For example, if you don’t like leeks, don’t use sausages which have leeks in them, as that would spoil the taste.

 

You may be wondering why I added some breadcrumbs in the filling. The reason is to absorb the juices so that the base will not become soggy.

While I was sautéing the onions, I prepared the crust.  I was rather lazy to start making tart dough and rolling it, so I was lucky enough to have corn meal, milk and eggs with which I used to make a quick batter, which I used as the base of the “tart”.

The result was amazing.  Sweet onions and delicious sausage, with cheese combined with a delicious, crispy cornmeal crust was more than I expected of this humble pie made out of minimal ingredients!  Did I mention that it was so easy to make?

Note:  If I had the ingredients, I would add some crumbled feta in the batter and would use graviera cheese instead of gouda.

 

Other similar recipes:

Savoury Cornmeal Crumble with Butternut squash, Spinach and Feta

Plastos Spanakopita

Badjina, the naked Pie

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