Spinach, bacon & fetta cheese quiche Recipe

  Brunch

Ingredients:
Pastry.
1 cup plain flour
90g butter
1 egg yolk
1 tblspn lemon juice (approximately)

Filling:
1 bunch english spinach
2 tblspns oil
4 bacon rashers chopped
1 onion, sliced
125g fetta cheese
3 eggs
200g carton sour cream
2tblspns grated parmesan cheese

Directions:
Pastry: Sift flour into bowl, rub in butter, add egg yolk and enough lemon juice to mix to a firm dough. Cover refreigerate 30 minutes. Roll dough out large enough to line a 23cm flan tin, trim edges. Cover pastry with greaseproof paper, fill with dried beans or rice. Bake in moderately hot oven 7 minutes, remove paper and beans, bake further 7 minutes. Spread spinach mixture evenly over pastry, top with feta cheese. Pour in egg mixture, sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Bake in moderate oven for about 30 minutes or until set.

Filling:
Chop spinach leaves finely. Heat oil in pan, add spinach, cook stirring until spinach is just wilted: drain well. Add bacon and onion to pan, cook stirring, until onion is soft, drain. Crumble feta cheese: whisk eggs and cream together in bowl.

Spinach, bacon & fetta cheese quiche
 

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