Mini Quiches
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Preparation time:
25 minutes
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Cooking time:
15 minutes
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Total time:
40 minutes
Ingredients
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Basic Quiche Mixture
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200ml milk
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175ml cream
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1 medium egg, beaten
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Fillings
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Grated Cheddar cheese
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Sautéed sliced mushrooms
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Chopped ham
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Flaked tuna
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Chopped cooked bacon
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Chopped cooked onion
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Pastry
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125g butter, cubed
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250g plain flour
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Salt
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Freshly ground black pepper
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1 tsp lemon juice
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3 medium eggs, beaten
Method
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Preheat the oven to 190°C, gas mark 5. Grease three 12-hole fairy cake trays.
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To make the pastry, rub the butter into the flour, with a pinch of salt and pepper. Add the beaten egg, lemon juice and enough water to make the ingredients cling together into a ball. Knead gently until smooth. Roll out the pastry to a thickness of about 5mm and cut 36 rounds with a cookie cutter to line the tins.
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Combine all the ingredients for the basic quiche mixture. Sprinkle your chosen filling into the pastry cases, then fill up almost to the top with the quiche mixture. Bake for 15 minutes or until set. Cool in the tin and eat warm or cold.
Comments
Glossary
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Bake
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Black pepper
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Butter
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Cheese, hard
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Chop
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Combine
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Cookie cutter
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Cream
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Cube
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Egg
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Fish
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Flake
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Flour
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Grease
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Ham
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How to Cook Bacon | Types of Bacon | Waitrose
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How to Cook Mushrooms | Types of Mushroom | Waitrose
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Knead
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Lemon juice
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Line
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Milk
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Onion
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Pastry
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Preheat
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Roll
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Rub in
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Salt
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Sauté
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Set
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Sprinkle
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This recipe was first published in June 2001.
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