Ham and cheese cake with béchamel sauce, recipe step by step

When making a ham and cheese cake there are several variants, for example, it is delicious if you add bechamel sauce, cream cheese, grated cheese, cream cheese, sautéed onions or tomato slices to the filling. There are even those who decide to add hard boiled egg. On this occasion, I will show you how to make one of my favorite options: Ham and cheese cake with béchamel sauce . Let's go for the recipe!

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Ingredients

For the salted dough

• 250g of butter
• 500g of flour
• 50g of corn starch
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper

For the filling

• 150g of cheese in fetas
• 150g cooked ham
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
• 500 ml white sauce

Elaboration step by step

Preparation of the dough

1. To make the dough of the salt cake , cut the cold butter into cubes and place it in a bowl together with the sifted flour.

2. Join both ingredients with a cornet, or with the tips of your fingers to achieve a gritty preparation .

3. Add the corn starch, salt, sugar, egg yolks and ground black pepper. It removes very well and incorporates as much cold water as necessary to achieve a homogeneous mass.

4. Work quickly and form two equal buns. Wrap them in plastic wrap and let sit in the refrigerator for 60 minutes. When the dough has rested, work it with a rolling pin until you get a 5mm thick circle and the diameter of the mold you will use to bake the cake.

5. Line the base of the mold previously greased with butter with one of the masses and light the oven at 220ºC.

Preparation of the filling and assembly

1. Cut the cheese and cooked ham into strips .

2. Place them in a bowl together with the ground black pepper, the white sauce and the beaten eggs.

3. Integrate all the ingredients very well and place them on the dough that covers the mold, leaving a clean edge.

4. Place the other dough stretched to make the cake lid and seal the edges with a fork or make a repulse.

5. Brush the surface with the milk and bring the ham and cheese cake to the oven for 10 minutes ; Then lower the temperature to 180ºC and cook until golden.