Recipes

Smoked Mussel Quiche

Ingredients:

• 500g savoury short pastry
• 30mls milk
• 4 eggs
• 200g packet Tatua Cheese sauce
• 200g smoked mussels
• 1 spring onion

Roll out the pastry to a thickness of a half centimetre. Line a fluted 24cmm/9& a half inch tart tin with the pastry and chill for at least 2 hours.Preheat the oven to 180degC. Line the pastry with baking paper and fill with baking beans. Bake for 15 minutes then remove the beans and brush the pastry lightly with the milk.

Bake for a further 5-8 minutes until the pastry is slightly brown.Whisk the eggs with the Tatua Cheese sauce until smooth. Remove the tongues from the mussels and chop roughly. Top and tail the spring onion then slice very finely. Fold the mussels and spring onions into the egg mix.Pour the mix into the tart shell and bake for 15 minutes. Spin the quiche180 degrees, then bake a further 5 minutes until the eggs have set.

Serves 4-5

Recipe © Copyright Genevieve McGough 2006

< Back to Recipes