I love quiche and just because I have Coeliacs I don’t see why I should miss out!
So, gluten free pastry. Basically forget everything you know about regular pastry, I don’t roll this out, it’s too sticky, think more along the lines of a rustic tart, that way any wonky edges can be explained away! As sticky as this can get it does make lovely “short” pastry, I have given it to friends and nobody picked up on it being gluten free.
If you would rather regular pastry use, 175g flour, 100g butter and 1 egg yolk.
I always double this recipe as these quiches freeze really really well, ideal for lunch boxes and picnics at a later date, I even tend to make the spare quiche in a long rectangular tin, the slices fit more easily in the lunch boxes.
Makes one quiche, I use a 23x 3cm fluted edge tin. Serves 6-8.
Ingredients
Pastry
75g glutinous, sticky, rice flour, plus extra
75g buckwheat flour
75g fine corn polenta
150g butter, salted, cubed
1 egg
1-2 tablespoons water
Filling
3 eggs, beaten
150mls cream
200mls sour cream
150g Gruyere cheese, 125g cubed, 1cm, 25g finely grated
200g speck or bacon, cubed, 0.5cm
a little freshly grated nutmeg
salt and pepper
Method
Process the flours and polenta.
Add the cubed butter and pulse until forming breadcrumbs.
Beat the egg with 1 tablespoon water.
With the motor running, add the egg to the flour.
Give it a minute to come together, if it isn’t, add the remaining water.
Allow the processor to bring the dough together a little.
Take a large piece of plastic wrap, lay it on your work surface, sprinkle with a little more rice flour.
Scoop the pastry onto the prepared plastic wrap, sprinkle with a little more rice flour and top with another large piece of plastic wrap, forming the dough into a large disc.
Pop in the fridge for 30mins.
Cook the cubed meat in a frying pan with no added fat, set aside to cool on some kitchen towel.
Remove the pastry from the fridge, break off small pieces and start pressing them into the tin, I tend to do the base first and then work up the sides.
Return to the fridge for 30mins.
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Centigrade.
You need to blind bake the pastry first so, line the inside of the pastry, where your filling will go, with a piece of baking parchment and pour on a layer of baking beans or dry rice.
Bake for 15 mins.
Remove from the oven and gently lift out the paper and beans/rice.
Cover the base of the quiche with the cubed cheese followed by the cooked bacon.
In a jug, whisk the eggs, cream and sour cream, add the nutmeg, salt and pepper.
Place the quiche tin on a baking sheet. Move it onto your stove top, so it is nice and close to the oven, less spills!
Fill gently with the egg mixture and top with the grated cheese.
Place in the oven and bake for 25mins.
Remove once golden and puffy, it will sink back down.
Allow to cool a little before serving.
Yum. Like the “gluten free” part.
I LOVE the gluten free part youthfoodblog! 🙂 Ros
yum I love quiche lorraine! Now I’m hungry!
One of my favourites Gusface Grillah! 🙂 Ros
This looks delish! Great tip about making quiche in a long rectangular tin for lunch boxes – thanks 😀
Thanks Nina 🙂 Ros
Yum! I’ll have to try this.
Enjoy Kate. 🙂 Ros
Something I haven’t tried in a while – thanks for the inspiration !
this looks yummy and I love quiche too but like to do gluten free wherever I can!
Hi Rebecca, you really can’t tell this if gluten free, the polenta gives it a lovely crunch. 🙂 Ros
Thanks for this! Looking forward to making the gluten-free pastry 🙂
My pleasure Lili, just ignore everything you know about regular pastry and it will work a treat! 🙂 Ros
This looks delicious! I think I need to make more quiche!
Thanks Jessica, I love quiche! 🙂 Ros
My brother has Celiac and I once did his diet for 40 days and it was tough! What a great recipe to try-it looks delicious!
-Sarah
http://www.catecrafts.wordpress.com
Hi Sarah, a celiac diet is a challenge, I’ve been diagnosed over four years but it gets easier! 🙂 Ros
I love quiche for breakfast, brunch or even dinner with a nice salad. Freezes well too so I can pull out a piece when I want one 🙂
It is one of the handiest things to have in the freezer! 🙂 Ros
I do melt when I see a beautiful quiche – and this one looks stunning! And your pastry looks really interesting. I might not be a coeliac, but this is making me curious ( I adore buckwheat). Thanks of sharing!
Delighted you like the look of it afracooking, we eat a lot of buckwheat flour,I love the nutty flavour. 🙂 Ros
Beautiful! Wow. I’m doing this.
Thanks Sara, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, we ate the quiche in the picture but I made two so a rectangular one is in the freezer for a lazy weekend lunch! 🙂 Ros
That gluten free crust sounds great – I’ve made a polenta one before, which is delicious, but a proper GF shortcrust sounds lovely! How do you defrost? Do you have to crisp it up in the oven?
Hi Beck, I just defrost in the fridge and then a quick warm through in the oven, people don’t realise it’s gluten free, it’s very short and the polenta gives it a nice crunchiness. 🙂 Ros