Sunday, July 1, 2012

Eggless Spinach & Emmental Cheese Quiche

Eventhough quiche is loaded with eggs and cheese, its one of our favourite savoury tart and we have it occasionally for our dinner with salads.For this month's Baking Eggless, Gayathri choosed an incredible quiche, initially i wanted to make a quiche with spinach and loads of veggies, somehow finally i went for making the same spinach quiche recipe she choosed. To subsitute the eggs, i went for bechamel sauce,silken tofu with grated emmental cheese. Honestly, this quiche is super cheesy,addictive and definitely eggless to enjoy with a simple lettuce salad.

After baking and having few wonderful sweet eggless bakes for this baking eggless challenge, we truly enjoyed this month's challenge of baking this savoury eggless quiche.Thanks to Gayathri for this beautiful challenge, i simply loved this eggless quiche and truly amazed the way they came out super prefect without eggs, coz for me quiche cant be baked without eggs. Sending to Jagruti's COG guest hostes by me.


Pie dough:
2cups All purpose flour
Salt
1/2tsp Sugar
1/2cup Butter
1/4cup Olive oil

Take the flour in a bowl, add the salt,sugar,butter and olive oil, mix with your fingers to make a crumble like texture.

Gradually add the water and make a smooth dough. Wrap it and arrange in fridge for an hour.

For Bechamel sauce:
1/2cup Butter
1/2cup All purpose flour
2cups Milk
1no Onion (diced)
5nos Cloves
2no Bay leaves
Salt
1/2tsp Pepper powder
1/4tsp Nutmeg powder

Heat the butter in a pan in medium heat, once they start melting, add the all purpose flour and cook it for 5 minutes, they should nt change their colour n not to get burned,remove them from fire.

Heat the milk with onions,cloves and bayleaves for few minutes, let them sit aside and for more minutes.

Remove the onion, cloves, bayleaves from the milk, gradually add the hot milk to the butter flour mixture, stir them contiously..flame should be in simmer.

Cook them for few minutes until they turn thick,whisk well  and strain the sauce, add salt, pepper powder , nutmeg powder to the sauce.

For Quiche:
2cups White sauce
2cups Spinach (chopped)
1tbsp Olive oil
1/2cup Silken tofu (grinded as paste)
1cup Emmental Cheese (grated)+1/2 cup Cheese for topping

Preheat the oven to 350F, roll the already prepared pie dough as medium thick disc and tranfer it gently to a tart mould,meanwhile heat the oil and saute the chopped spinach until they shrinks a bit.

Spread the spinach to the prepared dough,add the emmental cheese,tofu paste to the white sauce,check for salt.Pour this mixture to the already prepared  pie dough.

Sprinkle generously the emmental cheese on the top and bake for 30-35minutes until the crust turns golden brown.

Serve with a simple salad.

28 comments:

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

making me hungry here.. very delicious..

Mélange said... Reply To This Comment

Awesome worth recipe to have Priya..thank you so much.

Supriya's Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Wow looks very inviting. And excited to participate in the olympics event.

Faseela said... Reply To This Comment

Drooling here....awesome dear....

Culinary Vibes said... Reply To This Comment

this has to be surely tried... bookmarked :) ... awesome recipe..

Zareena said... Reply To This Comment

mmmmmm..... perfectly baked

Alessandra said... Reply To This Comment

Wow, a eggless quiche! I love it!

Ciao
Alessandra

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

woow.....Looks delicious and very tempting...Love this:)

Archana said... Reply To This Comment

Looks so yum Priya, I love it.

Vimitha Durai said... Reply To This Comment

Can i come over for dinner when u make this... looks so yum

Elisabeth said... Reply To This Comment

Hi Priya, so sorry for neglecting to comment. I'm so tied up with the little doggies at my daughter's house/dog watching, just seem to forget about my own blog!

Love the delicious quiche...and no eggs?...wow, that's a new one, and a pleasant surprise for someone to watch their cholesterol. I happen to like to use tofu in recipes, and this is a keeper! Yumm!

Mythreyi said... Reply To This Comment

quiche - egg less.. that is too much.. it came very crispy and yummmy.. Love it..

-Mythreyi
Yum! Yum! Yum!

Asiya @ Chocolate and Chillies said... Reply To This Comment

I also just posted a recipe for quiche! But it had eggs....I never knew you could make quiche without eggs...very interesting use of tofu!

R.Punitha said... Reply To This Comment

Hi Priya ,

Looks delicious and Great !!!!!

Keep on Priya :))))

Julie said... Reply To This Comment

Quiche looks beautiful & irresistible!
Erivum Puliyum

Kannada Cuisine said... Reply To This Comment

Eggless quiche! superb

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious eggless quiche.

Vidhya said... Reply To This Comment

Love this delicious looking quiche.

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

looks like I missed out a nice recipe for this month's challenge. I shall have to try out sometime in the future.

Sensible Vegetarian said... Reply To This Comment

Looks perfect Priya, quiche looks awesome.

Sangeetha Nambi said... Reply To This Comment

I am in diet priya... Pls dont tempt me, by posting such recipes :( Bad girl u r....

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Nammi said... Reply To This Comment

very creative priya, I am clueless when it comes to replacing eggs in recipes which have eggs

Ivy said... Reply To This Comment

Looks delicious!!!

Myvegfare said... Reply To This Comment

looks absolutely delicious.., beautiful clicks too....

Kaveri Venkatesh said... Reply To This Comment

Mmmmm....looks really yum...and the eggless bake sounds super good

Spice up the Curry said... Reply To This Comment

fantastic looking eggless quiche

Gayathri Kumar said... Reply To This Comment

Quiche looks so inviting. I came to know about this sauce while watching master chef. Is it a variation of the white sauce?

Priya Suresh said... Reply To This Comment

Yep Gayathri,its a variation of white sauce,usually bechamel sauce are used for preparing gratins and as sauce over the pastas.