Spicy Pumpkin Quiche with Goat Cheese

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

Combine flour, butter, salt and eggs in a bowl

Mix with a blender (dough hook) and then knead the dough with your hands until smooth

Form a little dough ball, wrap it in plastic foil and put into the fridge for one hour

Roll out the dough on a workplate

Grease the Quiche pan and lay out the dough

Roast the pumpkin pieces gently over medium heat for about ten minutes

Preheat oven on 180°C

Combine sour cream with the cheese, eggs and spices and stir well until smooth

Put the hot pumpkin pieces in the Quiche pan and then add the leek slices and scatter the basil leaves on top

Pour the egg-cheese-sour-cream-mix on top and put the pan into the oven for about 30 minutes

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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.