It is usually said that we are eating first with our eyes, this is true for me. I usually enjoy most a dish that is well presented and colourful than a similar dish not neatly presented. It is why in my kitchen I have some many small plates and dishes for making sure that the presentation pleased me. I will shortly publish some recipe that I did last time that I had some guests and you will be able to discover that I have a quite extensive collection of small dishes.

As I am trying to cook more and more seasonal vegetable thanks to my organic veggie box, I need to find some new ways of cooking them in order to avoid to be bored. So this time, I was quite pleased with all the colour of the veggies in the box and I decided to combine vegetables and quiche. In order to make sure that it didn’t take ages to bake the quiche, I opted for grating all the vegetable and steaming them before. The fact to grate the vegetable is a real value-added as it changed the usual texture.

This quiche is as good as it is looking like. It is a perfect match some fresh salad for your lunch box or for a light dinner.

• SERVE: 
• PREPARATION: 15 minutes
• COOK: 40 to 45 minutes
• DIFFICULTY: 

What do you need?

For the quiche:

• 2 orange carrots
• 1 white carrot (optional, you can replace it by orange one of you don’t have white one)
• 2 small/medium beetroots
• 50g of grated cheddar
• 2 to 3 tablespoon of sesame seeds
• 1 egg
• 10 cl of soja single cream
• Aromatic herbs such as chives or parsley

For the shortcrust dough:

• 75 g of self-raising plain flour
• 30 g of corn flour
• 45 g of vegetable margarine or butter
• 20 to 40 ml of water

How to make a colourful quiche with carrots and beetroots?

For making the shortcrust dough:

• Mix in a large bowl: corn flour, self-raising flour and vegetable margarine
• Knead the dough with your fingers
• Add water, start with 20 ml and then increase if necessary
• Knead gently the dough
• Wrap it in a plastic film and let it cool in a fridge for 30 minutes

If you have a breadmaker, it is even quicker, you put all the ingredient in the machine and select the dough program

For the quiche:

• Peel all the vegetables and then grate them
• Steam all the vegetable for 20 minutes

the colour of the beetroot keeps colouring the other vegetable, so if you want to keep the 2 colours of carrots, it is better to steam the carrots and the beetroots separately.

• Roll the dough in the tart mould and bake it for 10 minutes at 180°C
• In a pan, heat the sesame seeds for a couple of minutes for roasting them
• Put all the steamed grated vegetable on the pre-baked dough

 it is at that moment that you could play with the colour of the various ingredients

• Add the grated cheddar on top then add salt, pepper and aromatic herbs
• In a bowl, mix together egg and the soja single cream

if you want a thicker quiche, don’t hesitate to add a second egg, and you can even add a tablespoon of flour to the mix

• Pour the mix on top of the grated cheddar
• Then add the roasted sesame seeds on top
• Bake the tart for 20 to 25 minutes in the oven at 180°C

the tart can be served either cold or hot.

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