Eggless onion pepper quiche

Hi
Challenges do indeed push you a little more than what you think U CAN!!! After joining SWEET PUNCH i have definitely tried to come out of the comfort zone of cooking just south Indian dishes:-).This month’s sweet punch challenge was to bake a savoury !!!!YEAH yeah !!! I can hear many of you saying “good”:-)Well! RIA asked us to bake a Golden onion quiche.

i made minor changes in the recipe because i wasn’t comfortable with eggs in the filling , so decided to make the filling without eggs. I substituted silken tofu for eggs. Having made this i thought i could as well bake the pastry without eggs too.

INGREDIENTS

For the pastry:
Maida 200g

Butter(frozen) 100g

Baking powder 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Ice cold water as required

PREPARATION

Sieve in the maida, baking powder and salt together.

Grate the frozen butter in it and gather the flour till it resembles coarse sand.

Mix the flour with a little ice cold water. The dough should resemble chapathi dough

Roll it out on a lightly floured surface and lift it up carefully and line the tart mould that you will be baking it in.If it breaks up and you need to do a patch work

Make sure the dough comes a little way up the sides, so that it can hold the filling in. prick the base with the fork and let it rest in the refregerator till the filling is ready

FILLING

Onion 1 sliced

Green, Red,Yellow pepper 1 each cut into slices

Silken tofu 1/2 cup( substitute for 2 eggs)

Cheese 1/4 cup

Milk 1/2 cup

salt to taste

pepper 1 tsp

Whisk the tofu, milk and cheese in processor. Add pepper powder and salt to it.

Heat 2 tsp of oil in a pan and saute the onions till golden brown. Add the peppers to it and saute for 5 more minutes.cool for a few minutes

Take out the prepared pastry shell and layer the onion pepper mixture in it. Now add the tofu milk mixture and bake this at 190 C for 25 minutes or till done

Yummy egg less quiche ready.

We can add as many vegetables as we want. Cheese could be increased if your child demands:-)
Pretty fast to prepare and bake
Do try it!!!!

Veena