SPINACH AND CHEESE QUICHE

For my next blog I was juggling between the idea of making an  Apple pie or Quiche But then again I haven’t really made anything savory in any of my previous posts therefore  I thought of making these  spinach and cheese quiches.  These quiches are absolutely delicious and kind of melts in your mouth.  I have used spinach but you can use any kind of fillings like chicken, mushrooms, ham, onions etc.  I just had the regular processed cheese in my kitchen which also works fine but these would taste heavenly with a bit of cheddar and Gorgonzola.

Ingredients (Makes 12 small quiches)

200 gms of refined flour

100gms unsalted butter

5gms salt (Omit the salt if using salted butter)

1 egg

10ml cold water.

Filling

1 bn spinach

1 tsp garlic
100gms Cheddar/Gorgonzola
(Even processed cheese would work)
1 Egg
100 ml Milk
100 ml fresh Cream
1 Gr Chilly
1 Tbl sp Oil

Method

In  a mixing bowl take refined flour and butter make sure the butter used for making the short crust pastry should be chilled. Grate butter and mix it with the flour and chill the mixture for some time.

With your finger tips mix the flour butter mixture the mix should look like golden sand.

Now add the chilled egg and sprinkle water.

Don’t knead the dough but just get it together until it forms a round ball

Now dust the surface of your work table with some flour .

Roll the dough in to 1 cm thickness.

As making mini quiches i have not blind baked the pastry instead i have  Pricked the rolled dough with a fork this stops the pastry dough from rising.  I did not have a pastry cutter of the desired size therefore i have used lid of a bottle as a cutter.

You can  use individual pie moulds .  I find using  muffin tins much more convenient also should work fine. Go on putting the pastry in each individual moulds

Preheat the oven to 160 and half bake the pastry for about 10 mins till it starts getting slightly golden colour.

For the filling Heat oil add garlic and one chilly .   

Just cook the spinach till its wilted don’t over cook it.  This will result in the spinach being soggy and watery.

Now remove the pastry from  the oven put come chopped cheese at the base . Next add the spinach mixture

Make a quiche mixture by just mixing milk, cream and egg. 

Slowly pour the quiche mixture try not to spill it .

TIP:  Its a good idea to pour this mixture when its half way inside the oven, so u you avoid spilling the mixture all over.

Bake the mixture at 160 for about 15 min or till it gets a nice golden colour.