Spinach and Cream Cheese Quiche
From annielikestocook 16 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 10
Another recipe by Lancewood! Love this one. Great with side salad.
Ingredients
- Pastry shopping list
- 150ml self-raising flour shopping list
- 75g butter, cut into small cubes shopping list
- 1 tsp salt shopping list
- Cold water to mix shopping list
- Filling shopping list
- 230g Lancewood Plain cream cheese shopping list
- 900g fresh spinach, washed thoroughly to remove all grit. Discard stalks and damaged leaves shopping list
- 25g butter shopping list
- 150ml milk shopping list
- 4 eggs, beaten shopping list
- 2 Tbls parmesan cheese - grated shopping list
- Freshly grated nutmeg shopping list
- 1 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice shopping list
- salt and freshly ground black pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Pre-heat oven to 180 C.
- Pastry:
- Sift the flour and salt into a large mixing bowl.
- Add butter and Transfer to a food processor and process till mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- With the processor running, add the water little by little till a soft dough forms.
- Remove to a floured surface, roll into a ball.
- Cover with cling film and place in refrigerator to chill for 20 minutes, before rolling out.
- Line a 25-cm quiche tin with pastry and prick base all over with a fork.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven, brush pastry case with beaten egg and bake for a further 5 minutes.
- Remove from oven and set aside.
- Filling:
- Drain spinach leaves thoroughly. Place them in a saucepan together with the butter and some salt and pepper. Cover and cook for about 7 minutes, stirring occasionally until the spinach is limp but colour is still bright.
- Drain thoroughly, pressing out excess liquid.
- Beat Cream Cheese in a bowl and gradually add the milk, beaten eggs, parmesan cheese and the seasoning.
- Chop up drained spinach and stir into cream mixture, adding lemon juice and more seasoning if needed.
- Pour mixture into pastry casing and bake for 35 minutes or until filling is firm and golden in colour.
The Rating
Reviewed by 3 people-
wow--this sounds really good.
choclytcandy
in Dallas loved it
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This looks beautiful and sounds fantastic. Great post and a high 5. Yummers.
chefmeow
in Garland loved it
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