Vegetable Quiche

Method

1. To make the dough, take butter and egg in a mixing bowl and beat gently. Do not overbeat. Add refined flour and salt and mix well to make a dough. Roll the dough in cling film and keep it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
2. Dust the worktop with flour and roll the dough. Keep a quiche mould over the rolled out dough and mark a roundel and cut a roundel slightly bigger than the marked one.
3. Grease the mould and spread the rolled dough on it compressing from all sides. Chill it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
4. Preheat oven to 200º C.
5. Bring the mould out of ♦the refrigerator, fill it up with some raw kidney beans and keep the mould in the preheated oven. Bake for 15 minutes or till its edges are lightly browned.
6. Take mushrooms, spinach, red capsicum, yellow capsicum, green capsicum and mozzarella cheese in another mixing bowl and mix well.
7. When the base is ready, put the vegetable mixture in it.
8. To make custard, beat eggs into a bowl, add salt and beat. Do not overbeat. Pour this mixture over the vegetables.
9. Keep the mould in the preheated oven and bake for 25-30 minutes.
10. Take the mould out of the oven, cool slightly, demould, place it on a serving plate and serve.

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