Delicate quiche with juicy curd filling, tomatoes and aromatic herbs is a great snack for the whole family. The recipe lists the amount of ingredients for a small cake with a diameter of about 20 cm.
Ingredients:
- 75 g butter;
- 180 g of cottage cheese;
- 250 g of fleshy tomatoes;
- 100 g of Adyghe cheese;
- 100 g of Dutch cheese;
- 1 egg;
- 100 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon of your favorite dried herbs
- salt, red and black peppers to taste.
Preparation:
- Grate half of the hard cheese on a coarse grater. Just sift the flour, cut the butter into random pieces, grind the dried herbs in your hands. Combine these ingredients in one container, knead until smooth, kneading elastic, pliable and soft dough.
- Roll the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Cover the bottom of a split form (about 20 cm in diameter) with food paper. Note that you can take the usual form, but in this case the quiche can be taken out of the form only after it has completely cooled down.
- Turn on the oven and heat up to 170 degrees.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator, roll it into a cake layer, beat it with a fork and transfer it into a mold, forming the middle sides.
- Bake the dough base in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Grind Adyghe cheese on a coarse grater, put in a bowl, combine with egg yolk and cottage cheese, season with salt and pepper, mix until smooth.
- Beat the egg white until a white foam forms, put in the curd filling and stir in.
- Cut the tomatoes into 5 mm rings. Grate the other half of the hard cheese on a fine grater.
- Remove the baked base from the oven and cover with the curd filling. Place the tomato rings on top of the filling.
- Place the formed quiche in the oven for 10 minutes, then remove, cover with plenty of grated cheese and send back to the oven for 25-30 minutes. During this time, the quiche with tomatoes and cheese should not only cook, but also acquire a fragrant golden brown crust.
- After half an hour, remove the form from the oven, sprinkle its contents with any fresh herbs, and serve immediately.
