In German, the name of the open tart sounds like "kitchen", which means "pie". Despite its origin, the dish belongs to French cuisine. It is prepared from puff chopped dough with eggs, milk or cream, with the addition of hard cheese (originally gruyere). There are many filling options for such a pie. In our article we will talk about how to cook quiche with broccoli and cheese. We’ll choose three pie recipes at once: traditional, with frozen cabbage and feta.
The story of the famous cake
It may seem strange to many that the name of a traditional French dish has German roots. But the story of this cake is no less amazing. The quiche was first prepared in the French province of Lorraine, which borders Germany. Thrifty Germans did not throw out the remnants of yeast bread dough, but used it as a basis for stuffing from meat scraps, bacon, sausage and vegetables, pouring beaten eggs on top of it. After baking in the oven, the output was a delicious and satisfying pie.
The French accidentally spied on the recipe, improved it, replacing the yeast dough with sand, added a lot of cheese and baked quiche "Loren", which received the same name as the province where it was first prepared. Traditionally, it was made from smoked brisket. Later, other different fillings for quiche pie came up: with onions, fish, mushrooms. Today they are prepared not only in France, but throughout the world.
Quiche pie toppings
Want to diversify your home menu? Then make quiche pie with different fillings. For example, German housewives initially put in it everything that remained in the refrigerator or on the table after the previous meal.
Quiche with chicken and mushrooms is very tasty. Instead of poultry, ham and onions can be put in the same pie. An unusual combination of onion and sour cream as a filling is a French quiche. For a special flavor, grated nutmeg is traditionally added to it. But the Italian version of the filling involves the use of tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. In the quiche you can put green beans, zucchini, green peas, spinach, cherry tomatoes and necessarily broccoli. And you should not be limited only to hard cheese. Mozzarella, goat cheese, roquefort, brie, blue cheese are also suitable. And how tasty quiche with salmon or anchovies turns out!
As a fill, eggs and milk are traditionally used. But here there is a whole field for experiments. The cake can be poured with cream, fat sour cream mixed with spicy cheese, seasoned with nutmeg or mustard. And each time it will be a completely different cake with a new unique taste. But you just need to remember about an important rule - no more than 120 ml of cream or milk should be taken per 1 egg. Otherwise, the filling will flow out of the mold.
How to cook quiche with broccoli and cheese: ingredients
A pie filled with vegetables is considered one of the easiest to make. Even a novice can master this simple recipe.
Quiche with broccoli and cheese is traditionally made from chopped dough, reminiscent of the taste and texture of shortbread. It is mixed with the following ingredients:
- butter - 90 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- flour - 2 tbsp .;
- salt - ¼ tsp
To prepare the filling, you will need the following set of products:
- broccoli - 400 g;
- bow 1 pc.;
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
- egg - 3 pcs.;
- Gruyere cheese or cheddar - 100 g;
- milk - 100 ml.
Quiche is prepared in a round form with low walls.
Pie dough
This unusually tasty quiche is suitable for a festive lunch or dinner. In this embodiment, broccoli fillings are lightly fried in olive oil with onions. Also, cabbage can be used raw, which is considered more useful. Even broccoli can be pre-boiled in salted water for two minutes, after which the inflorescences can be transferred to cold water.
So, the dough for quiche with cheese and broccoli is prepared in the following sequence:
- Grate cold butter on a coarse grater or chop with a knife.
- Mix it with sifted flour and salt. Grind the ingredients with your hands until oil crumbs are formed.
- Beat the egg with a fork. Add it to the crumb.
- Knead elastic dough. Form a ball out of it, wrap it in film and send it to the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
The dough is ready. It can be prepared in advance, frozen, and placed on the shelf of the refrigerator before use until it is completely thawed.
Features of the preparation of the filling
While the dough cools in the refrigerator, it's time to do the filling for the cake. Fresh cabbage, green and dense, without external flaws, is best suited. It should be disassembled into small inflorescences, cutting off the rough part of the fork with a knife.
In general, the filling for quiche with broccoli and cheese is prepared as follows:
- Grind a small red onion with a knife.
- Heat olive oil in a pan. Fry the onion on it until transparent for 5 minutes.
- Put broccoli in a pan. Cook with onion for exactly 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove the pan from the heat.
- Grate the cheese.
- Prepare a dressing. To do this, beat the eggs with a hand whisk until smooth. Add milk and 50 g of grated cheese. Mix the ingredients together. Refueling is ready.
- When the broccoli filling has cooled, you can proceed to the next cooking step.
Oven baking and baking
To make a pie, any round shape is suitable. If it has a non-stick coating, it can be used immediately for its intended purpose. Forms from other materials should be lubricated with softened butter.
This stage of preparation of quiche can be represented as follows:
- Preheat the oven to 190 °.
- Put the chilled dough into a mold and distribute it along the bottom and walls, forming high sides.
- Put broccoli on the dough. Spread the filling evenly over the surface.
- Pour the cabbage with dressing from eggs, milk and cheese. Sprinkle the dish with the remaining grated cheese on top.
- Submit the form with the dough and stuffing in the oven.
- Cooking time for quiche with cheese and broccoli is 30-35 minutes. The pie can be considered ready when the edges of the dough are lightly browned and a delicious cheese crust forms on top.
Quiche should be removed from the form only when it is almost completely cooled. The cake is especially tasty when cold, so it can be prepared in advance. It can be stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
Reviews and cooking tips
Judging by the reviews, the quiche with broccoli and cheese really turns out to be very tasty. But based on their own experience, most housewives recommend taking into account the following points when preparing it:
- It is better to bake cake pie in advance, then it certainly will not get wet under a large amount of juicy toppings. To do this, chilled dough should be distributed in shape, prick it with a fork, cover with parchment, and pour beans or peas on top. Bake cake for 10 minutes at 200 °.
- Broccoli for the filling should be preliminarily boiled or fried in vegetable oil. If this is not done, the cabbage will turn out crispy (for an amateur).
- Cheese can be used and more than indicated in the recipes. From this, the taste of the filling will only benefit.
Subject to some amendments, it is safe to say that the quiche is perfect, with impeccable taste and aroma.
Frozen Broccoli Quiche
Such a pie can be served for breakfast as an alternative to the usual omelet or scrambled eggs. The dish turns out delicious, beautiful and healthy.
Cooking it is very simple:
- Knead the dough, distribute it in a form, and then temporarily send it to the refrigerator.
- Thaw broccoli (450 g) in advance. To do this, transfer the cabbage from the freezer to the refrigerator.
- Thin strips of bacon (110 g), cut and fry in a pan. When the bacon becomes crispy, put it on a paper towel.
- Leave 1-2 tbsp in a pan. l fat and fry defrosted cabbage on it. Cool.
- Combine bacon, broccoli and 60 g cheddar together. Put the filling on the dough.
- Make a fill of 4 eggs, 1 cup of milk and 50 g of parmesan. Pour it on top of the filling.
- Sprinkle the cake with the remaining cheddar (60 g).
- Bake quiche with broccoli and cheese at a temperature of 170 ° 50 minutes. Remove from the mold and cut it only after complete cooling.
Quiche with broccoli and feta
Some gourmets admit that they like this particular filling option. In their opinion, it turns out more tender and piquant precisely thanks to brine cheese.
Quiche with broccoli and feta should be prepared in this way:
- Grate 200 g of butter, 350 g of flour and a pinch of salt into a crumb.
- Add 2 eggs and 1-2 tbsp. l ice water or milk.
- Knead the smooth dough, assemble it into a ball, tighten with foil and put in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then get it, distribute in shape, put the load on top.
- Send the form with the test to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. This will be enough to slightly bake the base.
- At this time, 300 g of broccoli to disassemble in inflorescences, boil for 2-3 minutes in boiling water and immediately transfer to ice water.
- Cut feta cheese (300 g) into cubes.
- Break the egg into a bowl, combine with cream (200 ml) and mix until smooth. Salt and pepper.
- Grate 100 g of hard cheese.
- On the finished cake lay the broccoli, feta cubes and thyme sprigs.
- Pour in egg and cream dressing and sprinkle with cheese.
- Put the cake pan in the oven for 25 minutes and bake at 180 ° until the filling hardens.