Quiche Recipe

[thesunflowergal]

Has anyone got a recipe that works please?
My Mum made a really yummy quiche, but she spent about £6 on different cheeses for it . I could just use cheddar, or whatever I need to use up or is on offer. But as always I am interested to see what recipe my ishy friends use.

Thanks Nikki

[JulieSherris]

Well....... I don't exactly follow a recipe.....

Pastry in the quiche tin, whip a few eggs with milk, or if I'm being extravagant, cream.... approx 4/5 eggs & 200ish mls milk or cream.
Into the case (and no, I don't blind bake!) goes whatever fillings I have to hand - tomatoes, leeks, onions, mushrooms, ham, bacon - not ALL of them but whatever you like... then sprinkle whatever cheese I have to hand at the time - sometimes just cheddar (ireland's not that great on cheese as it goes, usually white or red cheddar!!) sometimes stilton, depends on what's the fridge.

Then into a hot oven that gets turned down to about 150 degrees & cooking time is approx 30 mins......

Sorry for sounding a bit vague Nikki, but I read a few recipes & some seemed a bit like hard work - blind bake, separate the eggs, etc etc, so I just throw it all in & hey, it works for us!!

[southeast-isher]

I got this off my friend and it works great.

Cheese & onion Quiche.........

Need:- 4oz Marg;1 tblsp water; 6oz wholemeal flour; 4oz cheddar cheese; 2 eggs; half tsp salt; 1/4 tsp dry mustard; pinch of pepper; 5floz semiskimmed milk; 1 onion diced.

Then....Place marg, water & 2 tblsp flour in mixxing bowl. CREAM until well mixed. Stir in remaining flur to form a FIRM dough. ROLL out fairly thinly to a round & GREASE a 7inch flan dish. Lay in dish, trim surplus pastry + prick all over with fork.
Place all other ingredients in mixing bowl and whisk. Place onion @ bottom of flan case and pour over mixture.

bake gas 6/400F for 30 minutes.

[red]

i use 3 or 4 eggs and enough milk - till it looks right ...sorry...

fillings - usually cheddar cheese or feta + one or more of
onion
tomato
chives
bacon
ham
brocolli
steamed courgette

pour into flan dished lined with pastry.. no blind bake here either

cook until set

[indy]

Wouold go along the exact same lines as Julie, as long as you have enough eggs to make the mix set it will be fine

[Green Aura]

I'd echo the others pretty much except -

I always blind bake the shell (can't stand soggy pastry;
always use cream because again I can't bear that slightly wet sensation you can get
I cube or grate whatever cheese/s I've got and bung them in the base,
lightly saute all the veg and/or bacon and put that on top of the cheese
and finally pour the custard mix - eggs, cream s+p and herbs over the top.

Then put tomato slices round the top - helps OH recognise a portion (the trick is to use small tomatoes!!!)

I don't make it that often - I'm not keen and OH hoovers it down - who said real men don't like quiche? (probably me )

[thesunflowergal]

Thanks everyone for their input.
It was the ratio of eggs to cream/milk that I wasn't sure about. I want to start making them to a use some of the chookie eggs up, but also to use anything else that is in the fridge.
I will have a bash tomorrow. as always.

Nikki

[fran]

I don't always use cheese. Fry some onions very slowly until caramalised, put in pastry case and add mix of egg beaten in cream. Bake until brownish and firm. Yum Yum

[Rosendula]

I have just discovered that scrambled egg with a desert spoon of yoghurt mixed to every 2 eggs comes out really light and fluffy. I used to use milk, but won't go back now I've tried it with yoghurt. I'm going to try that next time I make a quiche. Just not in a baking mood at the moment.

On the baking blind thing: I never used to, and my pastry always seemed uncooked at the bottom, so now I do - not for long, just until it's dry - and it's always burned around the top edges by the time the quiche is cooked.