Summary

Ingredients

• 190 g flour
• 120 g butter
• 3 tablespoons water
• 1 pinch (s) salt
• 4 egg (s)
• 1 green pepper
• 2 tomato (s)
• 1 onion (s)
• 200 g cream cheese or cottae cheese, fine-rained
• 1 pinch (s) salt
• 2 pinches chili powder
• 1 pinch nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon, heaped sugar

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Instructions

1. For the shortcrust pastry, put the softened butter in small cubes in a bowl. Add the flour, water and salt and mix with a hand mixer until a batter forms. It is best to knead it again by hand and form a ball that you place covered in the refrigerator. The dough stays there for about 10 minutes until you have finished preparing the filling.
2. For the filling, cut the peppers, onions and tomatoes into small cubes. Add the 4 eggs, salt, chilli powder, nutmeg, sugar and the cottage cheese to the cubes and mix with the dough hook of the mixer you have already used for the shortcrust pastry.
3. Roll out the dough 0.5 cm thick on a work surface dusted with flour. Rub a flat baking pan with butter, dust with flour and cover the base with the rolled out dough. Guide the dough up along the edges so that the later filling does not come into contact with the edge of the baking pan.
4. Now pour the filling into the baking tin with the dough, sprinkle the parmesan on top and place on the middle shelf of the non-preheated oven. Bake with convection and bottom heat for around 30 minutes at 200 ° C until the surface turns a nice brown color.
5. Notes and variants:
6. You can also use other vegetables in equal proportions if possible. Instead of the cottage cheese, you can also use sheep`s cheese, which gives the whole thing a completely different note. Together with quartered olives, tomatoes and basil, a quiche Méditéranéenne is created in no time.
7. If you love game dishes, you can also cut one or two slices of the leftover game roast into small cubes, use a small tin of sliced mushrooms or chanterelles and roughly equal parts of leek and conjure up a quiche forestière with the cottage cheese.
8. Take diced salmon (approx. 200 g) and spinach (approx. 100 to 150 g blanched and drained or frozen) and, if necessary, a red bell pepper, this creates a quiche maritime with the cottage cheese.
9. A particularly exotic variant is the Quiche Mexicaine, in which you add a small can of corn to the cottage cheese and about 200 g of minced meat, which you fry in the pan with half an onion and a little oil.
10. If you like it heartier, you can also use sour cream or crème fraiche instead of the cottage or sheep cheese.
11. If you don`t have any chilli powder, use normal pepper or you can use a chilli pepper for the Mediterranean quiche, core it, cut it into small pieces and add it to the filling.