Flans and Baked Dishes Recipes - Tomato Quiche with Rocket Recipe

Ingredients

• 350 g/12 oz (3 1/4 cups) flour

• 5 g (1 teaspoon) dried yeast

• 1/2 teaspoon sugar

• 150 ml/5 fl oz (5/8 cup) milk, lukewarm

• 200 g/7 oz (1 cup) butter

• salt

• 1 egg

• butter for the mould

• 2 red onions

• 3 beef tomatoes

• 1/2 bunch rocket

• 50 g/2 oz salami

• 50 g/2 oz cooked ham

• 100 ml/3 1/2 oz (scant 1/2 cup) sour cream

•  100 g/3 1/2 oz quark

• 2 egg yolks

• pepper

Serves 4

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Method:

1. To make the dough: sift the flour into a bowl and make a hollow in the centre. Sprinkle in the yeast and sugar and pour in the lukewarm milk. Mix, adding the flour little by little from the edges. Stand for about 10 minutes in a warm place.

2. Add 1 00 g/3 1/2 oz (1/2 cup) butter at room temperature, 1/2 teaspoon salt and the egg. Work into a dough by hand or using the kneading hook of the mixer.

3. Sprinkle flour on the dough, cover the bowl with a tea towel and put in a warm place. The dough can be worked again when it has doubled in size. Knead the dough vigorously after it has risen. Butter a quiche dish generously.

4. Roll out the dough about 1 cm (3/8 in) thick and line the quiche dish. Prick the base with a fork. Pour 60 g/2 oz (4 tablespoons) melted butter over the base. Leave to rise in a very cool oven, 50°C/120°F, for 20-30 minutes.

5. Remove, then preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F), Gas mark 6.

6. Peel the onions and divide into rings. Cut the tomatoes into four, remove the seeds and chop coarsely. Tear the rocket into bite-sized pieces and cut the salami and boiled ham into strips.

7. Put the sour cream and quark in bowl and stir into a smooth mixture. Beat in the egg yolk. Season with salt and pepper. Pour the sour cream mixture onto the base.

8. Heat the rest of the butter in a pan, add the onion rings, fry until transparent and remove. Fry the tomatoes briefly in the same butter and season with salt and pepper.

9. Arrange the onion rings and tomato pieces in the sour cream mixture. Add the strips of salami and ham. Garnish with rocket. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes. Serve hot or cold.

Note: The base of this tomato, onion, rocket. salami and ham quiche is made with a yeast dough. For the best results all the ingredients must be at room temperature, including the egg. All the ingredients should therefore be taken out of the refrigerator in good time.