Pakaraka Pie Is A Special Dish

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30399, 25 March 1964, Page 2

Pakaraka Pie Is A Special Dish

For an easy—but very special week-end luncheon dish—make a Pakaraka Pie which looks as appetising and as colourful as a magazine picture. The special joy of it is that it uses only things likely to be found in your store cupboard, so it is one to remember for the unscheduled moment when you feel like ringing your friends to say: “It’s such a lovely day, come and have lunch with me in the garden.” Ingredients: i cup rice 1 chopped green pepper 2 sliced tomatoes 1 medium tin salmon 1 tin whole kernel corn t tablespoons tomato sauce Salt and pepper 2oz butter 2oz flour 2 cups milk White breadcrumbs Butter 2 tomatoes 3 rashers bacon.

Method: Cook rice and drain. Melt 2oz butter and blend in flour. Stir in milk and cook until smooth and thick and boiling. Season with salt and pepper. Add rice, salmon broken into pieces, drained whole kernel corn, chopped green pepper and 2 tomatoes and 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce. Turn into a large ovenware dish and cover with a thick layer of white breadcumbs. Dot with butter and dust with salt and pepper. Peel and slice tomatoes and arrange evenly over the dish in pattern. Remove rind from bacon and cut into pieces. Strew these over. Bake about half an hour in a moderate oven.