Tacopaj (Swedish Taco Pie)

Ingredients:

for the pie crust:

1/2 loving cup butter, cubed
1 1/2 loving cup flour
iii tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoon paprika

for the filling:

1 1/4 lb 93% lean terra firma beef
1 teaspoon Chili powder
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon terra firma chipotle
1/4 teaspoon terra firma cayenne
1/4 teaspoon granulated garlic
1/4 teaspoon dried onion
freshly terra firma dark pepper
1/2 loving cup water
1-pint cherry tomatoes, halved
1 minor onion, sliced into 1/8 inch thick rings



for the topping:
1 2/3 loving cup crème fraîche (or sour cream thinned alongside a combat of milk)
five oz shredded quesadilla cheese or cheddar

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350.

In the bowl of a stand upward mixer, using the paddle attachment, shell together the butter, flour, together with paprika until the butter only tiny chunks together with the mixture looks shaggy, similar rocky sand. Slowly flow inwards the H2O together with mix until a thick dough forms. Roll out the dough on a floured surface. Place inwards a measure pie plate. Prick alongside the tines of a fork together with bake x minutes. Set aside.

In a large skillet, saute the terra firma beef and spices. Saute, breaking upward whatever chunks of meat alongside a spoon, until nearly fully cooked. Add the H2O together with simmer until the H2O has evaporated.

Pour the meat into the prepared pie shell. Top alongside onion rings together with love apple tree halves. Spread the Crème fraîche on transcend of the pie. Sprinkle alongside cheese. Bake twenty minutes or until bubbly together with lightly browned. Serve alongside tortilla chips to scoop issue filling.


Note: Feel gratis to purpose my homemade taco seasoning mix inwards this recipe.

My thoughts:

I've been looking for an excuse to brand tacopaj e'er since I offset came across a moving painting of it on instagram. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 production of a force of Tex-Mex spice mixes inwards Sweden, it is unopen to other American Tex-Mex international crossover. After the success of Takoraisu, I felt bold plenty to larn inwards myself. It was pretty slow to brand if slightly fourth dimension consuming cheers to having to brand a pie crust. It was a combat tricky creating the recipe, the bulk are inwards Swedish together with land my nutrient Swedish is genuinely pretty good, I looked at dozens of recipes to exercise the virtually authentic tacopaj I could using American measurements. I saw a few variations: unopen to had corn, unopen to had sliced whole tomatoes, unopen to had tomatoes inwards the meat but this 1 seems closest to what I saw on menus together with inwards Swedish nutrient magazines. The solely affair is that they all called for "shredded cheese" but no recipe said what form of cheese. I used quesadilla cheese because I had it but cheddar would last a skilful alternative too. The destination trial is surprisingly good, it is sort of similar a cross betwixt quiche (without eggs) together with taco dip I guess? According to my research, 1 serves it alongside tortilla chips which is an fantabulous persuasion because land it was somehow sliceable without whatever sort of binding agent, it is a combat crumbly 1 time you lot start eating thence you lot tin purpose the chips to scoop upward errant meat.