Kiwi blue cheese quiche
- Serves 6
- Prep time: 30 mins | Cooking time: 1 hour 5 mins
"This is a very delicious Quiche. I first had Blue Cheese Quiche in London but I have added my own favourites to make this very different and given it a lot more colour, flavour and bite. (Locally known as Chewy Pie)."
Recipe by: Lorna Mullens
Ingredients
Pastry flan case:
225g Plain Flour
100g Butter
2 tbsp of water
1/2 tsp of salt
Filling:
25g butter
2 different coloured peppers
1 large red onion
6 jalapeño chilies
5 eggs
100g creamy blue cheese
1 cup of milk
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Mix flour and salt in a bowl and add the softened butter and rub between fingers until fine. Then add the water and knead in to dough.
Roll out the pastry and line the 23cm flan dish.
Blind bake for 15 minutes on 150 C.
Clean and roughly chop the Onion and Peppers into bite size chunks.
Clean and finely chop the chillies.
Melt the 25g of butter in a frying pan and gently cook, for 5 minutes, the chopped onions, peppers and chillies.
Beat the eggs with the cup of milk and add salt and pepper to taste.
When the Flan is ready line the pastry with the onions, peppers and chillies and crumble the blue cheese over the top.
Pour the egg mixture in to the Flan.
Bake in the centre of the oven on 150C for 50 minutes.