This is a delicious Quiche costing $2.00 a serve
Goes well with a tossed side salad.

• Easy
• 0:15 Prep
• 1:15 Cook
• 8 Servings

Recipe by Australia's best Recipe​

Ingredients​

• 600g butternut pumpkin peeled cut into 2cm pieces
• 1 olive oil spray
• 2 sheets frozen ready-rolled reduced-fat puff pastry thawed
• 1 leek pale section only halved lengthways ( or a purple or red onion)
• 4 eggs free range
• 100ml reduced-fat milk
• 100g Don 97% fat-free ham (deli)
• 25g baby spinach leaves
• 3/4 cup Mainland reduced-fat cheddar cheese grated

Method​

1. Preheat oven to 210°C or 190C fan-forced. Line a roasting pan with baking paper. Place pumpkin in prepared pan. Spray lightly with olive oil and season with pepper. Roast for 25 minutes or until tender and light golden.
2. Meanwhile, wash, dry and thinly slice the leek then place into a microwave-safe bowl. Cover with damp paper towel and microwave on High/100% for 1 and 1/2 minutes, or until leek is soft. Set aside to cool.
3. Cut 23cm round from 1 pastry sheet and 3cm x 5cm wide strips from the second sheet. Press the pastry round over the base of a lightly greased, 6cm deep x 22cm base springform pan. Use the strips to line the side, press strips and base together to seal. Place a sheet of baking paper over pastry. Half-fill with dried beans. Bake for 18-20 minutes until edges light golden. Remove the paper and beans and bake a further 10-15 minutes until the base is golden. Remove from the oven.
4. Whisk the eggs and milk together in a jug and set aside for 5 minutes to allow the bubbles to subside. Combine the pumpkin, leek, ham, spinach and cheese then spoon into the pastry case. Pour egg mixture evenly over the filling, return to the oven and bake for 30 minutes or until set in the centre. Stand 5 minutes before cutting into wedges to serve.

NOTES​

You can replace the leek with one large red onion; thinly sliced if you wish for a stronger, sweeter onion flavour.
Blind baking the pastry (where the pastry shell is partially cooked before the filling is poured in) is an important step – this will ensure that the bottom of the quiche is cooked through. After all, there’s nothing worse than biting into raw pastry.

 

[Penny4]

Another nice quiche recipe rather than your non pastry recipe which I still make.
I love leeks and often use them instead of onions.

 

[Suzanne rose]

Another nice quiche recipe rather than your non pastry recipe which I still make.
I love leeks and often use them instead of onions.

I made the non pastry quiche yesterday when we had two unexpected visitors and they loved it. The wife insisted I give her the recipe before they left.

They were trying to talk us into keeping our kitchen. I told them if they liked it that much they can have the lot including fridge and oven for free

 

[Penny4]

I made the non pastry quiche yesterday when we had two unexpected visitors and they lived it. The wife insisted I gave her the recipe before they left.

They were trying to talk us into keeping our kitchen. I told them if they liked it that much they can have the lot including fridge and oven for free

It is a nice, quick recipe that everyone enjoys.
Hope they accepted your offer!

 

[Irene Anthony]

Thank you again

 

[mylittletibbies]

Another one to add to the list.
I am making the Cauliflower & Sweet Potato Soup today, should be nice for this cold, wet day.
Can't complain about the weather though, our local farmers are very happy, lol.
Thank you again Suzanne Rose

 

[Jo Piper3]

Sounds wonderful thanks.

 

[Suzanne rose]

It is a nice, quick recipe that everyone enjoys.
Hope they accepted your offer!

No because they not long ago renovated.

I'm thinking of putting it on ebay for 3 days starting at 99c . With oven and fridge. Hubby's ready to demolish in less than 2 weeks. The kitchen guy wanted $1400 to remove. He said he would use some if it in his shed. I'd rather pay the kitchen man. That price was to get rid of it as well .

Do you believe we are still debating over the black / grey bench top or the wooden one.

Lucky we can order in a week .

Also we are doing floating floorboards over our tiles.



It's out of these two floorboards



We also have other wood with the table n chairs and fishtank ( which I can't get him to get rid of)

 

[Littleboy8]

No because they not long ago renovated.

I'm thinking of putting it on ebay for 3 days starting at 99c . With oven and fridge. Hubby's ready to demolish in less than 2 weeks. The kitchen guy wanted $1400 to remove. He said he would use some if it in his shed. I'd rather pay the kitchen man. That price was to get rid of it as well .

Do you believe we are still debating over the black / grey bench top or the wooden one.

Lucky we can order in a week .

Also we are doing floating floorboards over our tiles.


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It's out of these two floorboards

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We also have other wood with the table n chairs and fishtank ( which I can't get him to get rid of)

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Don’t be sel”fish” it’s his house as well.

 

[Suzanne rose]

Don’t be sel”fish” it’s his house as well.

Like he keeps saying its my kitchen and whatever I want then he tries getting a white porcelain sink.

That fishtank is big and I'm always stuck helping him clean it. He said he would get someone into clean it. and pigs will fly. He isn't going to part with money to get someone else to clean it when he has me to help

 

[Suzanne rose]

Don’t be sel”fish” it’s his house as well.

Those pumpkins in the picture are all from our garden

 

[Penny4]

It's certainly a hard decision with the bench tops and I can still believe you would be debating them.
I like both of them! Maybe toss a coin, or your family could place a vote and go with the winning entry out a hat.

 

[Littleboy8]

Those pumpkins in the picture are all from our garden

I’ve given up trying to grow no matter what I do the possums always dig up the seeds and eat them.

 

[mylittletibbies]

Like he keeps saying its my kitchen and whatever I want then he tries getting a white porcelain sink.

That fishtank is big and I'm always stuck helping him clean it. He said he would get someone into clean it. and pigs will fly. He isn't going to part with money to get someone else to clean it when he has me to help

I refused to clean ours anymore, I wasn't the one who wanted it.
It didn't take long to go once he had to clean it himself.

 

[Suzanne rose]

I refused to clean ours anymore, I wasn't the one who wanted it.
It didn't take long to go once he had to clean it himself.

I thought he would get rid of it after the baby carp grew and he put it in his fish pond in the backyard ! But no ! He is putting tropical fish in now

One little grey shark is $35 and then if / when they die

 

[Suzanne rose]

I’ve given up trying to grow no matter what I do the possums always dig up the seeds and eat them.

We had literally 100 pumpkins that year. My daughter took the photo and made a canvas

 

[mylittletibbies]

I thought he would get rid of it after the baby carp grew and he put it in his fish pond in the backyard ! But no ! He is putting tropical fish in now

One little grey shark is $35 and then if / when they die

I had the same problem with birds. I never wanted parrots or chooks because of the mice.
My husband and daughter used to gang up on me and I'd get outvoted.
Last year there was a terrible mouse plague in the wheatbelt because of the bumper crop, they got into everything. We were having more than the neighbours because of the bird feed. I made them dispose of all the dead mice.
Guess what, all the birds are gone.
Still get fresh eggs from a friend, so I'm happy.
Not quite sure how you can solve your fish problem, lol

 

[Mina vriesekolk]

I love this quiche recipe , get nearly daily recipes of Australian Best recipes online and made this one many times and you can change to broccoli , cauliflower , capsicum etc.
Also, I have many pumpkins- butternut- growing at the moment , coming up from seeds in my compost heap and only keep them to a part of it , they grow like mad as there is no tomorrow . No possums here , only bandicoots, but they just dig around the plants for worms , but don’t destroy anything . There are also hares visiting , keep fingers crossed and leave my verges alone . Thanks Suzanne for the recipe .