Mini Vegetable Quiches
Mini Vegetable Quiches
This is an easy, fun recipe to do, allowing the kids to get the rolling pin out!
Ingredients
- For the flan
- 100 g Plain flour
- 50 g Margarine
- 3 tbsp Water
- For the filling
- 1 Egg
- 150 ml Milk
- 25 g Cheese
- Your choice of tomato/mushroom/broccoli/peas
- Note: You will need a greased muffin tin and a large pastry cutter
Instructions
- Finely chop tomato/mushroom/broccoli
- Grate the cheese
- Preheat oven to 190C, 170C for fan ovens or gas mark 5
- Tip the flour into a large bowl
- Cut the margarine into small pieces and add to the flour
- Rub in the butter / margarine with your fingertips. Do this as lightly as possible
- When the mixture looks like breadcrumbs, add water – one spoonful at a time – to make the pastry. Try not to handle it too much
- Grease the bun tins with oil using a pastry brush
- Roll the pastry to about ½ cm thick
- Use large cutters to cut out circles – about six
- Put the circles into the tins. Pierce the pastry cases a few times with a fork
- Measure out the milk in a jug
- Add the egg into the milk and whisk with a fork
- Put a small amount of filling in each case, including the cheese
- Pour the egg and milk mixture into the cases, filling as much as possible but avoiding the risk of spilling over
- Pop in the oven for 15 – 20 mins
