Galician pie

This is another of the big family style dishes that you make stick in the centre of the table and every helps them self, and talk about the day they have had, who they say and what they did. It is not difficult to make and you can use puff pastry from the shops, you do not have to make your own.

Butter

2 tbsp olive oil

150g/5oz spicy chorizo, peeled, chopped

2 rashers smoked bacon, chopped

2 small red onions, finely chopped

3 garlic cloves, finely chopped

A good pinch or two cayenne pepper

250g/9oz  tomatoes, halved, seeds removed, chopped

2 ready-roasted and peeled red peppers, sliced

150g/5oz monkfish fillet, cut into 10 evenly sized pieces

110g/4oz small squid rings

110g/4oz cooked, shelled mussels

50g/2oz cooked, peeled prawns

1 small bunch flatleaf parsley, chopped

2 sheets ready-rolled puff pastry

1 free-range egg, lightly beaten

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.

Preheat the oven to 220°c/425°f , grease a pie dish with the softened butter. Then roll out your pastry and line the dish. Then roll and cut some pastry for the top and put all of this in the fridge while you get on and make the filling.

Heat the olive oil in a deep heavy frying pan on a medium heat.  Get the chorizo and bacon and start to fry that off so it releases all the oils and fats.  Get the onions and garlic and cayenne pepper in to this followed by the tomatoes.  Cook all this so the tomatoes start to go to a pulp.  Then get in your roasted red peppers. Once this has all stated to cook together get all your sea food in to the mix and cook that till it has started to go white but not fully cooked . It will finish cooking in the oven.

Season with salt and pepper and then add a good handful of chopped parsley and take of the heat.  Spoon this in to your lined dish and then cover with the other pastry sheet that you prepared.  Trim the edges and glaze with egg and then bake for about 20 to 30 minutes until golden brown and the pastry has all puffed up.

Try this on a Sunday lunch one summer or instead of a barbeque .