Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, ham, leek and cheese quiche. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have ham, leek and cheese quiche using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ham, Leek and Cheese Quiche:
- Prepare shortcrust pastry
- Make ready large leek
- Prepare bacon
- Take dried or fresh tarragon
- Get eggs
- Get double cream
- Take mature cheddar cheese, grated
- Make ready Generous knob of butter
Instructions to make Ham, Leek and Cheese Quiche:
- Heat the oven to 180c (fan). Using a loose-bottomed tart tin unroll the pastry out and squidge into the corners and up the sides. Line with baking paper and then fill with rice or dried beans to weigh it down. Cook in the oven for 15 minutes. This is called blind baking. Once done discard the paper and keep the beans/rice for next time.
- Finely slice the leeks and cut the bacon into chunks. Melt the butter in a large frying pan and gently fry the leeks for 10 minutes and set aside in a bowl.
- Next, fry the bacon until browned, add the leeks back in and add the tarragon. Cook for a few minutes and set aside.
- In a separate bowl crack the eggs, and gently beat. Add the double cream and cheese and make sure all mixed in.
- Spread the bacon and leek mix over the pastry base, pour over the cheesy egg mix, make sure evenly distributed. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes, until golden.
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