MINI QUICHE

I like to think of Mini Quiche as muffins savoury cousin. Great for breakfast or a snack.

Serves: 6

Baking tin: 12 cup Muffin tin

Oven Setting: 180°C

• Ingredients and method for the base (Mix A): Mix all the ingredients, listed below, into a bowl and set aside. Don’t try making it a smooth dough. Those stray strands of grated potato are really tasty when baked.
  • Crushed Cream cracker biscuits – 1½ cup
  • Boiled grated potato – 1 cup
  • Crushed pepper -1 teaspoon
  • Salt to taste

• Ingredients and method for the Stuffing (Mix B): Coarsely pound the garlic, basil, parsley, oregano and red chilli flakes and mix along with all the other ingredients into a bowl and set aside
  • Cooked macaroni, sweet corn kernels and carrots chopped tiny or grated – 4½ cups, all put together
  • Garlic – 6 cloves, crushed
  • Dried Basil – 1 teaspoon
  • Dried Parsley – ½ teaspoon
  • Dried Oregano – 1 teaspoon
  • Red chilli flakes – 2 teaspoons (reduce or increase as per spice preference)
  • Salsa – 1 tablespoon (optional)
  • Grated cheese – ½ cup (optional)
  • Crushed pepper – ½ teaspoon
  • Salt to taste

• Ingredients and method for the Topping (Mix C): In a bowl beat together the eggs, milk, pepper and salt and set aside.
  • Eggs – 2
  • Milk- ¾ cup
  • Pepper – ¼ teaspoon
  • Salt to taste
  • Grated cheese – 1 cup (to top up)
  • Salsa – 1 tablespoon (optional)
  • Softened butter – 2 tablespoons (alternatively you can use olive oil)

Method to put together the Quiche:

• Divide the base (Mix A) into 12 equal portions (since we’re using a 12 cup muffin tray) and press down each portion into each of the cups, lining them. Push the mixture as far up the sides as you can.
• Divide (Mix B) between each of the lined cups, heaping up as much as possible.

• Pour a little of (Mix C) over each of the muffin cups filled with the stuffing (Mix B). Ensure that the egg mixture fills up the muffin cups.
• Top up with grated cheese, a few drops of salsa and a little butter or olive oil.
• Bake in the middle shelf of a preheated oven for 20 – 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into one of the quiches comes out relatively clean.

Note:

• Crush the biscuits in the sealed pack.

• Alternatives to:
  • Cooked macaroni, sweet corn kernels and carrots – Cooked Broccoli florets, cooked chopped boneless chicken, bell peppers cut tiny, cooked green peas.
  • Salsa – Tomato ketchup. Taco seasoning is also an interesting alternative.
  • Crushed Cream cracker biscuit – any savoury biscuit will do fine. If you use a salt biscuit then do not add any salt to the base ingredients.