I love quiche, but I do not always want the added calories of pastry – with this recipe you really can have your quiche and eat it!
Another handy tip for avoiding the use of pastry is from my adopted new home in Spain. Frequently seen them remove crusts from a loaf of bread, roll out until thin and line a lightly oiled (olive oil is preferable) tin with the slices. Add further pieces of bread if holes develop. Now, more often than not they utilise white bread, but I personally prefer granary or wholemeal.
Generally speaking you can blind bake the bread a little to make sure you dont get a soggy bottom! Lets face it, none of us like one of those…
For different versions of the quiche look to the bottom of the list – replacing the bacon with the suggested options there… have a play, the beauty of quiche is it is so flexible and can be adjusted to your tastes.
Ingredients
4 oz grated Cheddar cheese
6 rashers of bacon
1 medium red onion – finely chopped
1 tbsp olive oil
2 large organic eggs
¼ pint milk and single cream
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tomatoes, thinly sliced – optional
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius
Lightly butter a flan dish
Method:
Sprinkle half the cheese on the bottom of a flan dish
Fry the bacon and onion together until just cooked, spread over the cheese
Whisk together the eggs, milk/cream and seasoning, pour over the mixture and then sprinkle over the remainder of the cheese, lay the sliced tomatoes on top
Bake on the middle shelf of a preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until set
Serve with a mixed salad and crusty bread
You can vary the quiche by replacing the cheese, onion and bacon with the following:
Mushroom: 6 oz mushrooms, 3 oz bacon lardons – fry the mushrooms and lardons in little butter, place in the bottom of the flan dish and continue from addition of eggs
Salmon: 8 oz flaked freshly cooked salmon – put the flaked salmon into the bottom of a flan dish, continue as above from addition of eggs
Tuna and cheese: 8 oz can tuna and 4 oz cheese – sprinkle half the cheese in the bottom of a flan dish, add the tuna (flaked), the continue from the addition of egg mixture