Palatable Two Cheese Baby Portobello Quiche Recipes

PALATABLE TWO CHEESE BABY PORTOBELLO QUICHE

Steps:

• Preparation of Simple Flaky Pie Crust In a large bowl add flour and margarine. Using a fork, press flour and margarine together until uniform. The margarine-flour mixtures should resemble wet oats. Add 1/4 cup of ice water and form flour into a ball. Be sure not to over-work the dough or it will loose it's flaky properties. you may add more ice water (a tablespoon at a time) if you can not form dough into a ball. Leave ball of dough in bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, roll dough out for crust. Crust should be 1/8 of an inch thick. Preparation of Quiche Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Roll out crust, cut to fit each muffin tin. Make sure crust covers sides of tin. Press tin foil onto each crust to hold shape. Bake for 10 minutes, remove from oven, and reduce oven temp to 400 degrees. Remove foil, you should now see nicely formed crust in the tin. On your stove-top over medium heat in a large skillet, combine olive oil, garlic, mushrooms, and crushed red pepper. Cook till mushrooms become tender (approximately 10 minutes). Remove from heat and drain mushrooms. Place one mushroom cap (stem side up) into each into each of the newly formed crusts. Mix grated mozzarella and grated cheddar cheese together. Then evenly sprinkle into each crust shell. Whisk eggs, heavy cream, black pepper, and salt together in a medium sized bowl. Evenly pour mixture into crust shells. Bake at 400 degrees for 15-17 minutes. The quiche will be done if you poke them with a knife and the knife comes out clean. Enjoy your meal!!

PORTABELLA MUSHROOM QUICHE

Steps:

• Saute mushrooms in hot butter until they are crisp and browned, then stir in garlic and stir fry for 2 minutes; stir in the tomatoes and set aside.
• Now, make pastry: Mix flour and salt in bowl, then cut in butter and shortening with a pastry cutter until crumbly.
• Add milk, one tablespoon at a time; mix lightly until all is moistened; add more milk if necessary.
• Gather in a ball and roll out between 2 sheets of wax paper, peel off one sheet, place pastry onto 8 or 9-inch pie plate and peel off 2nd sheet; fit nicely into shell and crimp edges; paint edges with small amount of unbeaten egg white.
• Or, if you don't want to make pastry, use a prepared crust and paint edges as above.
• Now make custard: Beat together the whipping cream, egg yolks and spices; stir in basil.
• Now fill unbaked pie shell with mushroom mix, then pour custard over.
• Bake in a preheated 375F oven for 40 to 45 minutes, until custard is set and deeply browned.
• Let set 5 minutes before cutting.