Quiche is a French tart consisting of pastry crust filled with savoury custard and pieces of cheese, meat, seafood or vegetables. Quiche is a baked dish that can be served hot or cold. It is popular worldwide. Here we use seasoned spinach & baby corn as stuffing with cream & cheese.
Ingredients for 10 portions
| Qty | Unit | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.50 | Kg | Spinach |
| 0.75 | Kg | Baby corn |
| 0.20 | Kg | Chopped onion |
| 0.10 | Kg | Chopped garlic |
| 0.10 | Litres | Grovers white wine |
| 0.15 | Kg | Cheese mozzarella |
| 0.05 | Kg | Parmesan Cheese |
| 0.05 | Kg | Salt |
| 0.02 | Kg | Crushed pepper |
| 0.02 | Kg | Thyme fresh |
| 0.30 | Kg | Single cream |
| 0.15 | Kg | Shortcrust pastry |
| 0.10 | Kg | Chopped fresh parsley |
| 0.05 | Kg | Butter |
Method
The vegetables
- Blanch the spinach and shock in ice water
- Thinly slice the baby corn.
- Finely chop the onion and garlic.
- Chop the thyme and parsley finely.
- Mix together 1/4 of the cream, some salt, white pepper powder, little parmesan cheese
Cooking
- Take oil in a pan, add in the onion and sweat on a low flame, without color
- Add in the garlic, saute.
- Add in the baby corn.
- Add in the spinach, salt cracked black pepper, cream.
- Check and adjust consistency.
- Line a pastry ring with shortcrust pastry and put in the spinach stuffing.
- Mix some shredded mozzarella in spinach stuffing and use the balance to top it.
- Bake in the oven at 150* c till the pastry is cooked and light brown on the edges.
- To make sauce take butter in a pan add in garlic. Stir, deglaze with white wine.
- Add cream, chopped parsley and thyme. Finish with cubes of chilled butter.