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    This document provides a recipe for a chicken quiche with savory short crust pastry. It involves making a basic short crust pastry dough and lining a flan ring. The filling includes sautéed chicken, onions, mushrooms, spring onions, maize, and cheeses. The filling is poured into the pastry shell and baked until set, about 20-25 minutes. It is then cooled, garnished with a tomato rose and spring onion, and served.

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    This document provides a recipe for a chicken quiche with savory short crust pastry. It involves making a basic short crust pastry dough and lining a flan ring. The filling includes sautéed chicken, onions, mushrooms, spring onions, maize, and cheeses. The filling is poured into the pastry shell and baked until set, about 20-25 minutes. It is then cooled, garnished with a tomato rose and spring onion, and served.

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    This document provides a recipe for a chicken quiche with savory short crust pastry. It involves making a basic short crust pastry dough and lining a flan ring. The filling includes sautéed chicken, onions, mushrooms, spring onions, maize, and cheeses. The filling is poured into the pastry shell and baked until set, about 20-25 minutes. It is then cooled, garnished with a tomato rose and spring onion, and served.

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    Savoury Short Crust Pastry Chicken Quiche

    Chicken Vegetable Quiche


    Ingredients
    Pastry Dough
    200g plain flour, plus extra for
    dusting

    1 tsp salt

    100g unsalted butter or hard


    margarine

    8 tsp. cold water or milk

    Optional for a Richer Short Crust pastry


    1  egg
    Custard Filling
    75 ml light cooking cream 50g Cheddar cheese, finely grated

    2 medium eggs 75 g cooked chicken (marinated with 1


    tsp ginger and garlic paste, salt and pepper)
    1 tbsp. paprika
    1 onion, roughly chopped
    1 tbsp. nutmeg powder
    25 g spring onion finely chopped
    salt and freshly ground black
    pepper 15 g mushroom sliced

    50g Parmesan cheese, coarsely 10 g maize canned


    grated

    Garnishes
    2 tomatoes
    2 – 3 Sprigs of Spring onion

    Method
    1. Prepare and weigh in all ingredients to be used. Sieve flour and salt together.

    2. Grease a flan ring of 17-18 cm in diameter thoroughly with butter or oil.

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    3. Wash chicken, dice and marinate chicken with 1 tsp ginger and garlic paste, salt and pepper)

    cover and refrigerate.

    4. Place flour and salt into a large mixing bowl.

    5. Cut the hard fat into small pieces and add to the flour

    6. Rub in the butter with the finger tips until resembles breadcrumbs.

    7. Add the cold water and start to mix together to form a soft dough.

    8. Lightly flour a piece of greaseproof paper / cling film and place dough.

    9. Through the greaseproof / cling film roll out the dough and carefully line the pastry on the

    flan ring. Prick with a fork, cover the dough with the cling film and refrigerate in the refrigerator

    for 10 -1 5 minutes so that the dough take the shape of the ring.

    10. Adjust shelf and preheat Oven at 190°C.

    Wash and chop onions, place in a frying pan, Add a little oil/butter followed by dice marinated

    chicken and sautéed for 4-5 minutes until cooked.

    11. Wash and chop spring onion, slice mushroom.

    12. Remove pastry from refrigerator and place a greaseproof with bean and bake blind for 10 –

    12 minutes.

    13. Grate cheese (reserve 2 T aside), break eggs and lightly beat it to mix the yolks and the white.

    14. Measure cream and add the eggs and whisk lightly to combine well, add seasons, spices,

    mushroom, maize, spring onion and blend everything thoroughly.

    15. After bake blind remove pastry and place some grated cheese then add chicken.

    16. Carefully pour the custard mixture over the chicken and cheese.

    17. Bake quiche for 20 – 25 minutes until custard is well set and when inserted knife comes

    clean indicating that pastry and custard is well set and cooked. During baking prepare garnishes;

    wash tomato and prepare a tomato rose.

    18. Remove quiche let to cool on cooling rack. Prepare spring onion for decoration.

    19. Garnish quiche with tomato rose and sprigs of spring onion creatively and serve hot.

    Note: Dish can be made into a main meal by serving with a fresh vegetable salad.

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    Savoury Short Crust Pastry Chicken Quiche
    For the making of the pastry the step by step recipe for basic short crust pastry can be followed for steps 3 – 7 skipped.
    Tip: During bake blind after 10 minutes remove pastry and then brush with egg and then put to bake blind without beans
    for another 5 - 8 minutes. This will stop the pastry absorbing liquid from the filling and becoming soggy.

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