Quiche is a multitasker. It’s a breakfast, a lunch and even dinner if you feel like it.
It’s flexible. It can be hot or cold, vegetarian, meaty, seafood based, and as simple or complex as you want it to be.
In our family, quiche is the Easter brunch. It’s never a question of ‘should we’, but rather a question of ‘what type’. This year, I’m using one of the best known combinations in vegetable history- carrots and peas.
Now, I could have just chucked in some carrots and peas to a normal quiche recipe and called it a day.
But take a few more minutes, add in these extra ingredients and you’re taking not only carrots and peas, but quiche making, to a whole new level.
Peter Rabbit; Carrot & Peas Quiche
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Author: Bryton Taylor | Food in Literature
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- shortcrust pastry, cut and fitted into a mini tart pan
Filling
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 1 cup frozen peas
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup fresh carrot juice
- ¼ cup fresh basil, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp butter, melted
- ½ cup almond meal
- 1 small green apple, grated
- pinch of nutmeg
- ½ tsp cardamom
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
- Preheat oven to 170oC.
- Scoop filling into pastry.
- Bake for 20 minutes
That photo is BEAUTIFUL Bryt! Absolutely gorgeous. I’m definitely going to try the recipe too, I am a big fan of quiche and the addition of carrot, apple and peas definitely makes the idea a little bit more virtuous. Unusual but undoubtedly wonderful! xx