Honey, let me tell you about one of my favorite recipes — Tart Crust for Quiche is something I’ve been making for years and it never disappoints! This is the kind of dish that fills the whole kitchen with the most wonderful aroma and has everyone asking when dinner will be ready.
Made with simple, wholesome ingredients like wheat flours, white flour, butter, this recipe comes together without any fuss. That’s the way Gran likes it — good food that doesn’t keep you in the kitchen all day.
Whether you’re making this for a weeknight dinner or bringing it to a gathering, I promise it will disappear fast. Don’t forget to scroll down and let me know how it turned out in the comments!
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Tart Crust for Quiche
Ingredients
- 65 g Wheat Flours
- 65 g White Flour
- 60 g Butter
- 50 ml Water
- 3 g Salt
Instructions
- Be sure to keep all of the ingredients chilled.
- After combining the ingredients to create salt water, put it in the refrigerator.
- Grease the pan with butter.
- Add all of the ingredients to a bowl.
- Use a scraper to mix together by covering everything with flour.
- When the butter has become pebbly and crumbly, cut it up with the scraper.
- Make a dent in the center and pour in the salt water.
- Fold it into itself and bring the dough together to form one lump until the flour has been completely mixed in.
- Cover it with wrap and let it sit in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
- Roll out the dough until it’s 1-2 cm thick.
- Lay out the dough into the tart mold and pierce with a fork.
- Gently push the sides of the dough into the mold.
- Leave it as-is in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Cut off the edges of the dough, fill with pie weights, and bake for 20 minutes at 200C.
- Take out the pie weights, and let it finish cooking on its own for 5 minutes.
