Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, flaky quiche crust. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Flaky Quiche Crust is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Flaky Quiche Crust is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Preparation In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the egg and ice water. Our favorite butter pie crust recipe that makes consistent flaky pie dough every time. Jump to the full Pie Crust Recipe.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have flaky quiche crust using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Flaky Quiche Crust:
- Prepare For The Crust
- Get 1 Large Egg
- Take 2 1/2 Tbs ICE COLD Water
- Get 1 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- Get 1/2 Tsp Salt
- Get 140 Gr UnSalted Butter - Cubed
- Get For The Filling
- Get 200 Gr Lardon - Smoked or UnSmoked
- Make ready 50 Gruyere Cheese
- Make ready 200 ml Creme Fraiche (I used Sour Cream - Also Good)
- Make ready 200 ml Double Cream
- Prepare 3 Eggs, Well Beaten - (I used 2 medium Chicken eggs and 1 Duck egg and it was Amazing)
- Take Pinch ground Nutmeg
By adding Bacon you will make quiche Lorraine, or mushrooms for a mushroom quiche. This crust is so flaky and tender. Flaky and rich from the cheese. I was a bit leary of the amount of flour–it's not enough compared to other quiche pastry recipes but it does work.
Steps to make Flaky Quiche Crust:
- In the Bowl of a food processor, add flour and salt and Pulse, add the butter and pulse until looks like course meal. Add in the egg and Ice Water, pulse until dough forms
- Transfer the Dough onto a floured surface and roll out to over the size of your flan dish. Put ontop of the dish and press lightly into place. Then using a knife remove any excess.
- Put into Freezer for 20-25 mins - this needs to be very cold before filling is added.
- Method for Filling - Heat a frying pan and cook the lardons, drain the fat and cook again but do not allow to crisp. Remove from pan onto paper towels.
- Cut 3/4 of the Cheese into Cubes and Great the rest.
- Slacken the crème Fraiche and whisk in the cream, then slowly whisk in the eggs. Add a little salt and the nutmeg.
- Sprinkle the Lardons and 3/4 of the cheese into the pastry base and pour in about 1/2 of the mixture. Then put half way into the oven on a baking sheet (pre-Heated to 220c). Then Pour the rest of the mixture in and close the Over - Lower Temp to 190c and cook for 25 mins until top is golden.
- Remove the quiche and let settle for 5 mins remove from tin and eat - it is also good cold :)
Unlike other pie crust, flaky pie crust does not have sugar in it. It makes it perfect for savory meat pies, fruit pies, and quiche. Some recipes use butter as fat because it renders, well, buttery tasting crust. Make quiche according to recipe directions. The crust turned out flaky as promised.
So that’s going to wrap it up with this special food flaky quiche crust recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I am confident that you can make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
