Friday, August 2, 2013

Quiche

I first tasted quiche during outing and I really liked its creamy and cheesy richness, so I decided to give it shot at home :) So here is my version for the same.

Quiche is a savoury, open-faced pastry crust with a filling of savoury custard with cheese, vegetables or meat.
practically you can fill anything in it :) and that's the beauty of quiche. I had put veggies in quiche and here is how I made it.
Ingredients:
1. Pie crust (refer to http://vinitsjoyofcooking.blogspot.in/2013/08/pie-crust.html)
2. 1/2 cup grated cheese
3. 120 ml heavy cream
4. 120 ml milk
5. 1 egg + 1 (yolk)
6. salt, pepper, spices, herbs for taste (your call)
7. Half onion in thin strips
8. Half capsicum in thin stripes
9. Half tomato (remove stem and seeds) in thin stripes
10. 1 tsp oil (any cooking oil shall do)


Method:
In a skillet/pan heat 1 tsp oil and sauté onions, tomatoes and capsicum until they are done, turn heat off and set it aside to let it rest to room temperature 

Now mix in 1 egg + 1 yolk and whisk together.
Add in grated cheese, cream and milk and keep whisking. If you want your quiche to be very creamy then replace milk with cream or vice versa, if you want it more cheesy then reduce cream a little and add extra cheese. You can play with it as you like. Key thing is quiche should be creamy thats all :)
Add in salt, pepper any other hrebs/spices as per your wish. Cheese already has some salt contents so you may need to keep eye on how much salt you are adding in :)
Now add sautéed veggies to this mixture and give it a nice mix.

Baked quiche

Make sure you have aligned pie crust in baking teen and oven is pre-heated to 180 degree Celsius.
Pour mixture over pie crust in tin and make sure it does not spill over edges of tin.
Bake this upto 10-15 minutes and check for firmness, and then cook for 10-15 minutes more or till quiche starts browning. Your quiche is ready, it may appear little bit wobbly but its fine, thats how it should appear :). you can serve it right away.

A nice quiche piece

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