German onion pie with smoked meat

The German Onion Pie is a savory open pie filled with a delicious onion and smoked meat filling. There is a lot of onion in the filling, it is he who is the main ingredient, but you should not worry - after preliminary heat treatment, the onion becomes absolutely not bitter.

Ingredients

• For test:
• Flour - 125 g
• Butter - 25 g
• Milk - 75 ml
• Dry yeast - 3 g
• Salt - 0.5 tsp without a slide
• Sugar - 0.5 tsp
• For filling:
• Onion - 250 g
• Butter - 25 g (for onions) and 10 g (for baking)
• Smoked meat - 50 g
• Cumin - 0.25 tsp
• Salt - 0.5 tsp without a slide
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Cream of any fat content - 50 ml
• Flour - 0.5 tbsp.

Directions

1. Pour salt, sugar and yeast into warm milk. Stir.
2. Pour the flour into a bowl, pour in the dough and melted and cooled butter.
3. Knead the dough, gather it into a ball and, covering the bowl with a clean kitchen towel, leave in a warm place to proof for 1 hour.
4. While the dough is proofing, prepare the filling for the pie. To do this, peel and cut the onion into small cubes.
5. Melt the butter in a frying pan or saucepan, send the onion there and cook over medium heat until the onion is soft and translucent. The onion should not become ruddy, in no case should it be fried, it should rather be stewed. Salt the onion while cooking.
6. When the onion becomes transparent and soft, sprinkle it with flour.
7. Stir the onion, heat for a minute and remove from the stove.
8. Cut any smoked meat into strips.
9. Combine the egg and cream in a bowl, mix with a fork.
10. In another bowl, combine the onion, 3/4 of the whole smoked meat, egg-cream mixture and cumin.
11. Stir. The filling for the onion pie is ready.
12. Punch down the risen dough.
13. Roll out the dough into a layer and put it in a mold, forming a side about 1.5-2 cm high. (I baked a cake in a silicone mold with a diameter of 24 cm.)
14. Spread the filling over the dough.
15. Spread the remaining smoked meat and pieces of butter on top.
16. Bake the onion pie in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
17. Transfer the finished pie with onions and smoked meat to a dish and let it cool.
18. German Onion Pie is ready to serve. Such a pie is traditionally served with beer, but it is no less tasty with any other drink.
19. Bon appetit!