Homemade quiche recipes please.

[eightsixandtwo]

Hi! I love quiche and wanted to try and make my own. Does anyone have a simple recipe they would like to share please. Also, can u use ready made pastry?

You can use ready made pastry, but the problem with shop bought shortcrust is that its just not that buttery and light. It is fine though, so it depends how fussy you are. If you have a food processor and a rolling pin, it takes 5 minutes to make plus 30 minutes chilling in the fridge.

The other thing with making your own pastry is that if you like you can get fancy with the flavouring of it - I have a recipe for a pea and ricotta one with a thyme pastry.

I have lots of quiche/tart recipes. Let me know what sort of thing you like, a lot of my favourites involve a vegetable or two with a strong cheese eg red pepper and goats cheese or stilton and celery or spinach and gruyere.

Thanks. Love goats cheese and red pepper. In fact like most things!! Stilton combinations also sound delicious x

search quiche on good food website, they have some lovely ones

I buy ready made flan pastry bases

3 eggs, 250ml cream. Load of grated cheese, cooked chopped bacon or ham, chopped tomato and chopped onion.

whisk the eggs and cream - put everything else in the base add the egg/cream mix and whack in the oven for about 45 mins on 170

Scrummy - I would never buy a quiche again

goats cheese and red pepper tart

stilton tart

Sarah Raven's new book, Food for friends and family has lots of great tart/quiche recipes in. I adore her cookery books though, so am biased.

Thanks all. Looking forward to trying them