Tiger's Quiche - Jamie Oliver

Submitted by Swiss Miss

"Fabulous quiche by Jamie Oliver for cheese lovers like I am. The recipe is from foodnetwork.com."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• For the pastry

• 500 g plain flour
• 100 g lard
• 150 g butter
• salt
• 2 large eggs

• For the filling

• 5 large eggs
• 560 double cream
• salt, to taste
• pepper
• ground nutmeg
• 200 g cheddar cheese or 200 g gruyere cheese, finely grated
• 1 bunch chives, finely chopped
• 50 g goat cheese, crumbled
• 10 slices pancetta (thin slices)
• thyme, tips mixed into
• olive oil

directions

1. Preheat the oven to 190° Celsius.
2. Rub together the flour and the fat.
3. Add the eggs and bring together carefully.
4. Chill in the refrigator for 1 hour.
5. Once your pastry has chilled roll it out to fit an 11-inch/28-centimeter tin with a removable bottom and bake it blind for 10 minutes.
6. Lower the oven temperatur to 180° Celsius.
7. Mix all the filling ingredients together then pour the filling into the pastry case.
8. Sprinkle over the goat's cheese, lay over the pancetta slices and then finish off with a drizzle of thyme oil.
9. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.

Reviews

[Tornado Ali]

This quiche, while very delicious, did not set well at all. It could be, since the recipe does not state how much cream to use, that I used too much (I used 2 cups) or it needs some flour added. I might play around and try to firm it up, because it does have a very good flavor.