Quiche Legum

To prepare the pastry sheet, add the cold butter to the APF/ Maida, salt, sugar and rub it in. (Make sure the end result looks like bread crumbs.)

Add in a little water, so that the dough ball is formed. Make sure to knead it for only 10 seconds so as to avoid the over kneading of the dough.

Shape the dough in a round thick disk and wrap it with cling film or plastic wrap. Refrigerate it for 30 minutes or you can refrigerate it for a day as well.

For the filling, heat up a pan first, add small amount of oil, then add in the onion and finally chopped mushrooms into it, saute and cook till the water in the mushrooms evaporate.

Once all the water is gone, add salt to it and mix it well. Next, add the soya sauce directly on the pan so as to give it a good colour.

Take the milk and boil the cauliflower in it, so as to remove the pungent smell of it, which some find very hard to get used too. Add a pinch of salt in the milk along with the cauliflower.

Take the mushroom mixture out and spread it, so that it cools down easily.

In a pan, heat oil, then add capsicum to it and saute till it's half cooked. Also drain the cauliflower from the milk, make sure not to throw the milk away.

Now add the cauliflower to the capsicum and saute it till the capsicum is fully cooked.

Take the pastry sheet out and flour the surface well, start rolling the dough bigger than your 8 inch cake pan.

Roll the dough with 0.3cm thickness and put it gently in the cake pan, line the sheet well inside the round pan and cut the excess off. (Don't forget to poke it with a fork, otherwise the pastry will puff up.)

Preheat the oven to 340 °F/ 170°C on a baking mode. Then bake this pastry for 20 mins till it's light golden in colour. Make sure that you don't stretch the dough while putting it in the cake pan.

Once it turns golden, take it out of the oven and let it cool down completely. Once cooled, line the bottom of the pastry surface with mushrooms and vegetables.

Crack the eggs and whisk it well, scraping the bottom so as to not form any kind of foam. Add the remaining milk along with the one you boiled cauliflower in and mix it well. Adjust salt as per taste and add black pepper to it and mix.

Pour this egg mix on the vegetables, then add the amul cheese on top of it very carefully. Once the oven is done preheating for 165° C/ 330°F bake it for 30-35 mins till the centre is a little wobbly.

Once it is baked, let it sit for 15 minutes and serve it.