Cheese and Bacon Quiche - Simple Summer Recipes

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Quiche With Cheese And Bacon

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 40 minutes

By Patricia

Quiche is a versatile dish eaten cold or hot at any time of the year, it will serve as a main meal with salad or vegetables or even as a starter. If you want to make small individual Quiches use a fluted pastry cutter to cut the pastry.

This is a recipe for the basic Quiche (Cheese and Bacon) but there are some other well established alternatives like: Cheese & Broccoli, Cheese & Onion, Cheese & Leek, Cheese & Fish.

Ingredients: Serves 4-6
Pastry
180g plain flour
90g butter
30g cooking fat
Pinch of salt
Cold water to mix

Filling
1 egg
30g grated cheese
5 liquid ounces milk
60g bacon
1 small onion or 10 spring onions
15g butter

Cooking Instructions:

1. To make the pastry, put all the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and rub together until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs, add the cold water gradually and mix to a firm dough.

2. Then line a 7inch flan tin

3. To prepare the filling beat the eggs in a basin adding seasoning cheese, and milk.

4. Melt the butter in a small saucepan add the diced bacon and onions; if you are using spring onions leave them whole.

5. Cook slowly until golden then put the contents of the saucepan into the pastry case.

6. Cook in oven gas mark 190�C until firm and golden brown (30-35mins).

7. Serve hot or cold.