Carmelized Pear & Gorgonzola Quiche
Carmelized Pear & Gorgonzola Quiche
Enjoy for brunch, lunch or dinner!
Equipment
- 1 Pie Plate
- Tin Foil
- Baking Beans
- 1 Rolling Pin
- 1 Food Processor
Ingredients
Pie Pastry
- 3/4 Cup White flour
- 1/2 Cup Unsalted butter
- 1 fresh, free-run, soya-free, Omega-3 egg yolk
- 1 1/2 Tbsp Water
Quiche Filling
- 2 Pears cut into small cubes
- 1/2 tbsp Butter
- 1/2 tbsp Sugar or equivalent
- 1 medium Onion
- 1 tsp Thyme dried
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
- 1/2 cup Gorgonzola cheese (crumbled)
- 1 1/3 cup Heavy cream
- 2 Fresh, free-run,soya-free, Omega-3 eggs
- 1 Fresh, free-run,soya-free, Omega-3 egg yolk
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pastry
- For pastry, blend together the flour, butter, egg yolk and water using a food processor until it forms a softball.
- Place dough onto lightly floured surface and roll out pastry.
- Carefully lay pastry in pie plate. Trim edges so just above level of the top of the plate.
- Gently flute the edges and prick base all over with a fork. Chill pastry for 15 mins.
- Line pastry with tin foil and fill with baking beans, bake for 20 mins. Remove baking beans and bake for another 5mins.
- Lower oven temperature to 300 degree Fahrenheit.
Quiche Filling
- For quiche filling, fry onions over medium heat with olive oil - 2-3 mins.
- Add butter & sugar to pan and allow to melt, then sauté the small cubes of pear for 3-4 mins until tender.
- Arrange onion and pear mixture onto pastry base and crumble 1/4 cup (half the cheese) over top.
- In a separate bowl whisk together eggs, egg yolk, cream, thyme, nutmeg and seasoning - pour onto pastry base.
- Sprinkle with chopped walnuts and remaining 1/4 cup cheese evenly on top. Cook quiche for 40 mins until filling is set.
- Enjoy this delicious quiche!
