Goats Cheese & Onion Quiche

This is on for those lazy weekend brunches or mid week suppers.
SO Simply, but oooh! so decadent.

You will need:

For the Pastry:
2 Scant Cups Plain Flour, make up to 2 good cups by adding freshly grated Parmesan Cheese
125g Butter/Margarine, softened
Cold Water to mix

What to do:

• Pre heat oven to 200ºC.

• Sift flour & parmesan into a bowl, cut the butter into small pieces, add to the flour mixture. Then its time to get those fingers dirty.. Oh yes! WASH your hands first..

• With your fingertips rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs, cold hands are wonderful for this!

• With a blunt knife, one you eat your meal with is perfect, make a small well in the center of the flour mixture and add a small amount of water, mix with the knife adding more water slowly, until a stiff but flexible dough is achieved.

• Tip out onto a lightly floured surface, turn around in the flour a bit until finely coated.

• Now with a rolling pin, roll out the shape very lightly, moving the pastry on the surface, you don’t want it to stick.

• Pat the sides into the shape desired.. eg: square or round depending upon your tin shape. Try not to handle more than necessary.

• Make the size slightly larger than the tin, place pastry over the tin and press gently into the sides of the tin, trim off any excess, then pinch all around the sides, making it neat.

• Pick over the base gently with a fork, DON’T pierce the pastry all the way through.

Baking the Pastry Case Blind:

• Put some greaseproof paper onto the base of the pastry, cover with baking beans or rice (uncooked) and bake for 10 mins.

• Reduce the oven temperature to 150C.

For the Filling:

150g Goats Cheese Feta is nice, cubed
2 Red Onions, sliced
2 White Onions, sliced
4 Eggs, beaten
1 cup Milk
A Mixture of Grated Cheese: Parmesan & Mozzarella is good

What to do:

• In a little oil, fry the onions gently until golden, takes about 10mins. Cool.

• Mix the beaten eggs with the milk & some seasoning, add the onions & diced cheese, tip mixture into the pastry case.

• Pop into the oven for 15mins until the surface is just beginning to set, then sprinkle the grated cheese over the top, return to the oven and bake until golden.

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