April 11, 2011: Cheese & Tomato Plant Quiche

making pastry again, this fourth dimension amongst my recipe calendar every bit an excuse.  It's a straight-up quiche arrangement; amount of tomato, lined amongst a piddling mustard together with topped amongst extra cheese inwards the shape of brie slices.  Actually the brie centre melted correct into the quiche filling inside the commencement few minutes that it spent inwards the oven, the rind sticking merely about inwards lazy stripes on top.

It was lovely fresh out of the oven together with virtually every bit skillful when gently reheated for luncheon later.  I consider home-made shortcrust is the ane pastry that nonetheless holds upwards convincingly every bit leftovers.

Cheese together with love apple tree quiche
(recipe slightly adapted from Quick Vegetarian Recipes)

175g apparently flour
common salt together with pepper
75g butter, diced
2 tablespoons mutual frigidity H2O
1 tablespoon wholegrain mustard
50g mature cheddar, grated
four tomatoes, sliced
125g brie, thinly sliced
1 loving cup milk
2 egg yolks
1 clove garlic, crushed

In a nutrient processor, pulse together the flour, common salt together with pepper. Add the butter together with blend until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.  Pour inwards the mutual frigidity H2O together with blend the mixture until it comes together every bit a dough.  Bring it together into a balls, twine it inwards plastic wrap, together with refrigerate for at to the lowest degree twenty minutes.

Roll out the dough betwixt 2 sheets of plastic twine together with repose it into a pie dish.  Refrigerate the pie crust for some other 10 minutes or so.  Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Blind bake the pie crust for 10 minutes, hence take away whatsoever weights together with newspaper together with bake it for a farther v minutes.  Spread the base of operations amongst the mustard together with sprinkle over the grated cheddar.  Layer the love apple tree together with brie slices on top.

Whisk together the milk, egg yolks together with garlic, hence pour them over the tomatoes together with cheese.  Bake the quiche for at to the lowest degree xxx minutes, until the eggs convey gear upwards together with the laissez passer on is golden.