Spicy three cheese flan with sesame seeds

A deliciously spicy quiche made with three cheeses, the pastry is flavoured with curry powder and the quiche is topped with sesame seeds. This makes a great accompaniment to a salad, any time of year.

Spicy three cheese flan with sesame seeds

Servings:	Serves 6
Calories per serving:	1082
Ready in:	1 hour 20 minutes
Prep. time:	40 minutes
Cook time:	40 minutes
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	Chef
First published:	25th April 2015

Best recipe review Nice and cheesy 5/5 That's for sure! The Judge

Ingredients

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• 60 ml olive oil (about 4 tablespoons)
• 1 large onion, peeled and chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed
• 50 g blue cheese
• 225 g cream cheese
• 1 tablespoon plain flour
• 3 eggs, whites and yolks separated
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons chives, finely chopped
• 225 g pre rolled shortcrust pastry
• 50 g Cheddar cheese
• 4 pinches of curry powder
• Pinch of fine salt
• Pinch of freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons of sesame seeds

Mise en place

• If the pre rolled pastry has been refrigerated, remove from the fridge 30 minutes before you want to work with it.
• Preheat the oven to 200° C (400° F - gas 6), [fan oven 180° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour]

• 

  Ready for the oven

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  Cheddar cheese and curry powder rolled on to the pastry

• 

  Filling mixed and ready

Method

1. Heat the oil in a frying pan or wok and add a good pinch of black pepper
2. Saute the oil over a low heat until soft and transparent. Do not allow it to brown
3. Add the crushed garlic and stir-fry for the last few minutes
4. Remove from the heat and set aside and allow to cool
5. Crumble the blue cheese into a bowl and mix in the cream cheese
6. Stir in the flour, egg yolks, cooled cooked onions and garlic, chopped chives and season with a pinch of salt, not too much as the blue cheese is quite salty
7. Using a 20 cm (8 inch) push out flan tin, mark a circle that will fit snugly in the bottom
8. Grease the inside of the flan case with a little olive oil or butter
9. Sprinkle the grated Cheddar cheese over the prepared pastry and dust with the curry powder
10. Use a rolling pin to press this into the pastry
11. Line the base of the tin with the disc of pastry, cheese side up. Rolling this up first is the easiest way to transfer it to the fan tin.
12. To make the edge strip you will need to re roll the remaining pastry. Using your hands, roll into a long sausage, about 60 cm long (2 feet) long, and then roll that out to match the height of your tin.
13. Use this strip to line the edge of the tin, cheese side up.
14. Crimp the two pieces of pastry together with your fingers so they make a good seal
15. In another bowl, whisk the egg whites until they create still peaks and sprinkle with a little salt and pepper
16. Gently fold the egg whites into the cheese mixture and spread evenly to fill the flan case
17. Sprinkle with sesame seeds
18. Bake in the middle of the oven for 30 minutes at 200° C. Check it after 20 minutes and lower the heat to 180° if it looks too browned.

Serving suggestions

Serve with tomatoes and a green salad

See also

• Asparagus and broccoli flan
• Basic quiche case
• Bean and roasted red pepper flan
• Crayfish chili quiche
• Egg and bacon quiche
• Frankfurter quiche
• Kidney flan
• Prawn 'n' Pepsi flan
• Quiche Lorraine
• Smoked salmon quiche
• Spicy kidney flan
• Three cheese quiche
• Spicy three cheese flan with sesame seeds

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