Recipe: Cheese and onion quiche
Posted 9 months ago
Wed 24 Jan, 2024 12:01 PM
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A quiche is a savoury pie made with a flaky pastry crust and a creamy egg custard filling that can be flavoured with all your favourite ingredients.
Ingredients:
- 1 bag short-crust pastry mix
- 2 onions
- 3 eggs
- Milk - splash
- 50g mature cheese
- Cooked broccoli or any preferred veg
Seasoning: salt, pepper, oil and herbs
Method:
- Make up the short-crust pastry by following the packet instructions
- Preheat the oven at 180°c
- Set pastry aside and place in the fridge to cool
- Peel and dice the onions (small as possible)
- Cook the onion in a pan until soft, colourless and translucent
- When cooked leave the onions to cool
- Boil your broccoli until cooked and set aside
- Crack the eggs and milk into a jug and beat until all the eggs have been blended with the milk
- Rub a small amount of oil onto a flan dish to prevent the pastry from sticking
- Dust a small amount of flour over the oil – to provide a non-stick surface
- Roll out the pastry on a flour-dusted surface to the size of the flan dish
- Leave an overlap on the dish as the pastry will shrink during cooking
- Blind bake the pastry case in the oven for 10 mins
- Once out of the oven trim off the excess pastry around the edge
- Evenly spread over the cooked onion, grated cheese, veg and season with herbs, salt and pepper
- Pour over the eggs mix over all the ingredients
- Make sure all the ingredients are dunked in the egg mix or they will burn and taste bitter
- Gently place the flan dish in the oven
- Cook until the quiche is golden brown and has an even wobble
Serving suggestion:
- Additional herbs can be used at this stage, based on your preferred taste e.g. Parsley, Tarragon or mixed herbs (fresh or dried) would work well
- Self-raising or plain flour can be used
- Any kind of cheese can be used
- Do not flip the pastry over while rolling as it will become dry and hard to handle
