Asparagus & Goat Cheese Quiche · Thyme for Cooking

Inexperienced asparagus season is over right here in France. Fortunately it’s nonetheless going sturdy in Spain.

I didn’t listen once we lived within the U.S. however I don’t bear in mind seeing the ‘nation of origin’ on meals on the grocery store. Right here, not solely can we see the nation, if it’s France we see the area or the village or, typically, even the identify of the farmer.

All of that permits me to resolve who / which international locations I need to assist and which of them I do a private, one-person boycott.

It’s the little issues….

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• Creator: Kate
• Prep Time: quarter-hour
• Rice: quarter-hour
• Cook dinner Time: 45 minutes
• Complete Time: 1 hour quarter-hour
• Yield: 2 servings 1x
• Class: Quiche

• Crust: 
• 2/3 cup (4.4oz, 125gr) quick-cooking brown or common Basmati rice
• 1 1/3 cup (11oz, 330ml) hen broth
• 1/4 cup (1 oz, 30 gr) shredded cheese 
• 1 egg
• Filling:
• 4 – 5 skinny slices (3oz, 90gr) Prosciutto, reduce into massive items
• 8oz (240gr) asparagus, trimmed, Reduce into 1″ (2.5cm) lengths
• 4oz (125gr) goat cheese, sliced, 1/4″ (.75cm) 
• 2 tbs snipped recent chives
• 2 tbs snipped recent basil
• 2 tomatoes, thinly sliced
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup (8oz, 240,ml) milk

• Crust: 
• Cook dinner brown rice based on bundle instructions. 
• Oil a 9″ (22 cm) pie or quiche plate. 
• Calmly whisk 1 egg.
• Add 1/4 cup of cheese and the cooked rice. Combine effectively. 
• Pat into the quiche plate, working it up the edges as greatest you’ll be able to. 
• Bake in 400F (200C) oven for 10 minutes. Take away and put aside.
• Filling: 
• Warmth water in a saucepan over excessive warmth.
• When boiling, add asparagus and blanch for 3 minutes. 
• Drain and refresh below chilly water. 
• Dry on paper towels.
• In medium bowl whisk 3 eggs effectively. Add milk and whisk to mix.
• To assemble:
• Lay Prosciutto evenly over the underside of the crust.
• Lay the goat cheese on prime. 
• Sprinkle with herbs.
• Lay the tomatoes on prime of the herbs and prime with the asparagus.
• Pour the egg combination over all and bake for 35 minutes. (Verify after 30)
• Let stand 5 minutes earlier than serving.

Notes

Rice might be completed forward or the day earlier than. If it’s simply cooked, unfold it on a plate to chill for five minutes earlier than including to egg.
You may substitute a shredded potato crust: combine 10oz (300gr) uncooked shredded potato with the egg. Pat into quiche plate and bake quarter-hour.
The goat cheese is the type that is available in a log with a white (edible) rind.
I put the quiche/pie plate on a pizza pan earlier than pouring the egg/milk over. Makes it simpler to get into the oven and catches any drips and spills – saving oven clean-up.

Diet

• Serving Dimension: 1/2 recipe
• Energy: 786
• Sugar: 14.4 g
• Sodium: 1712.9 mg
• Fats: 34.6 g
• Saturated Fats: 17.6 g
• Trans Fats: 0.3 g
• Carbohydrates: 70.5 g
• Fiber: 6 g
• Protein: 48.1 g
• Ldl cholesterol: 453.3 mg

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I’m going to do one thing I very, very not often do – however why not?

It is a prep photograph – Prosciutto on the underside, then the goat cheese, then herbs.

Subsequent are the tomatoes, topped with the asparagus.

Often, prepping meals is neither neat nor colourful.

This was.