Homemade Cheesy Potato Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• pie crust, ingredients
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/3 cup vegetable shortening (if you have no shortening you can substitute it with one egg yolk and vegetable oil)
• 2 -3 tablespoons cold water
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
• pie filling, ingredients
• 4 -5 potatoes
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4-1/2 cup cream cheese (depends on how much cheese you want)
• 1 pinch basil
• 1/4 cup cream (when i did it i only had coconut cream and it worked well!)
• 1/2 cup bean sprouts (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• 2 pie crust.
• 3 mix all dry ingredients together.
• 4 cut shortening into mix and fold until you see crumbles (if using the oli and yolk poor into mix stirring until you see crumbles).
• 5 add the cold water until mix holds together.
• 6 roll out mixture to fit pie pan and mold onto the pan.
• 7 filling directions.
• 8 wash potatoes and cut in half. boil them until semi cooked not too hard but hard enough to cut into.
• 9 slice potatoes into almost potato chip like pieces about half an inch to an inch thick.
• 10 in a small sauce pan melt cream cheese and butter together until its smooth.
• 11 add basil to the mix.
• 12 poor mixture over potatoes and mix well.
• 13 if using bean sprouts add with mixture and mix well.
• 14 add mixture to pie crust and put into the oven
• 15 cook for about 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours.
• 16 pull out pie and shred cheese of your choice on top and pop into the broiler for about 5 minutes.
• 17 let cool for at least 10 mins and serve.