Monday, January 30, 2006

Mexican Style Quiche

Pastry:
(for a nine inch dish)

1 1/4 cup flour
1 stick of butter
1 tbsp cayenne pepper (more or less depending on your tolerance)
1 tsp salt if you used unsalted butter
5-8 tbspns ice cold water

First cut cold butter into cubes. Mix with flour/butter/cayenne pepper using your fingers. Keep pinching it together very fast until you get a bread crumb type mixture. With a mixing spoon slowly stir the crumbs and add the ice cold water until the mix is sticking together in huge clumps. Make a ball and wrap in plastic, and keep in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

Filling

6 eggs
1/4 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
1 chili pepper (your choice of hotness)
1 tomato (or two if small)
1/2 bunch green scallions
1 bell pepper (i used an orange bell pepper for color)
3 tbsp fresh chopped cilantro
2 tsp coriander
2 tsp cumin
a bit of salt
pepper
1 1/2 cups of mexican style shredded cheese

Cut all veggies up into small pieces. Beat eggs, sour cream and milk. Add spices.

Take out pastry from the fridge and roll it out. Put it in a buttered 9 inch pan, cover in aluminum foil, fill with dried beans (I keep a container of kidney beans around for this). Put in the oven for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.

Take pastry out of oven. (Take aluminum out/beans)
Add the veggies and spread out so equally over the pastry. Add egg mixture. Add cheese.

Put back in oven for 30-40 minutes until a light golden brown on top and the egg has firmed.

Serve hot or cold.
I served mine with salsa and my homemade guacamole, which I will post up here shortly.

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