Recipe: Chicken and mushroom quiche

Don’t you just love different kinds of quiches offered at fancy cafes? Be it veg or non-veg, quiche just melts in your mouth. Quiche actually originated in Germany and the word ‘quiche’ is from the German ‘Kuchen’, meaning cake. 

Try it out this chicken and mushroom quiche recipe and enjoy it, friends and family, this Ramzan. 

Ingredients:

For short crust pastry

Flour 500 gms

Butter 300 gms

Eggs 2

Salt 11/2 tsp

For the filling

Chicken 20-25 gms

Mushrooms 50 gms

Cream 200 gms

Cheese 1/2 cup

Egg yolks 2

Ginger garlic paste 1 tsp

Salt 1 tsp

Black Pepper a pinch

Water 1/2 cup

Method:

First of all, preheat the oven to 180 ¼C

Mix flour, butter and salt in electric stand mixer and beat till it becomes lumpy.

Add eggs one by one until all the ingredients are mixed. Your short crust pastry is ready.

Now roll the pastry with a rolling pin and then put it in a baking pan. And keep it aside.

In a saucepan, add salt, pepper, chicken, and half a glass of water. Add ginger garlic paste. Boil until chicken is cooked.

Add diced mushrooms, egg yolks and cream. Mix well

In the baking pan, pour the cream mixture over the crust.

Sprinkle the top with cheese and put it in the oven for baking.

Bake at 180 C for 25-30 minutes, or until golden brown.

Serve it hot or cold. Enjoy!

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