Spicy Pumpkin Quiche with Goat Cheese
By: Claudia Luehrs
Published: Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 1:01pm

Ingredients




What you need for the pastry:
150g whole wheat flour
2 eggs
100 g butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
What else do you need:
1 small Hokkaido pumpkin, peeled and cut into chunky pieces
2 leeks, sliced
A good handful of fresh basil leaves
200g sour cream
2 eggs
150 goat cheese
Ground nutmeg
½ teaspoon turmeric
5 dried chillies, finely chopped
Pepper and salt

Preparation

1 Combine flour, butter, salt and eggs in a bowl 2 Mix with a blender (dough hook) and then knead the dough with your hands until smooth 3 Form a little dough ball, wrap it in plastic foil and put into the fridge for one hour 4 Roll out the dough on a workplate 5 Grease the Quiche pan and lay out the dough 6 Roast the pumpkin pieces gently over medium heat for about ten minutes 7 Preheat oven on 180°C 8 Combine sour cream with the cheese, eggs and spices and stir well until smooth 9 Put the hot pumpkin pieces in the Quiche pan and then add the leek slices and scatter the basil leaves on top 10 Pour the egg-cheese-sour-cream-mix on top and put the pan into the oven for about 30 minutes

About

This weekend is all rainy. So I decided I want to try some new things in the kitchen. Pumpkin is kind of a new territory for me that needs to be discovered and the Hokkaido was waiting in the kitchen for more than a week now until this morning I decided to make a pumpkin Quiche. A spicy orange and yellow Quiche.
The season has changed so fast. Last weekend we were sitting outside in the sun having ice cream and this weekend you need a coat, a scarf and gumboots. It has been raining all day. But I think it’s nice for change. Getting all comfortable at home, being lazy and preparing nice snacks to lounge on the sofa. Well for a couple of days it’s nice I guess.
So I made a pumpkin quiche. The quiche has a very nice colour because of the pumpkin obviously but also because I used turmeric, which became one of my favourite spices recently. I also added dried chillies, which give the quiche a nice heat. The soft Hokkaido and the smooth goat cheese are a nice complement.