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Leftover Madness: Stuffed Peppers Into Quiche

It’s time for Leftover Madness! I’m excited! Are you?

Remember those delicious stuffed peppers I made on Friday? Well, today I am turning the filling into a quiche. When I finished stuffing the two bell peppers, I ended up having a lot of the rice/meat mixture left over and right away I knew what I wanted to do about it. I made a pastry crust, added the meat mixture inside and poured in the liquidy egg mixture and voila, I had a quiche!

You can use this recipe as an inspiration for any leftovers you have. Do you have chicken breasts lying around? Maybe some fried vegetables? Just make the pie crust as I do, add whatever you have inside and pour in the egg mixture that I’ll show you below.

Let’s begin!

First let’s make the pastry crust:

Measure out 250gr of pastry flour…

Now add it to a mixing bowl…

Measure out 125gr of butter…

Now break it into small chunks and drop them into the flour…

And with your hand, coat them with the flour so that they don’t stick to each other…

Now the next step is a little hard to explain but hopefully you will understand what I mean and the picture will help!

In between your fingertips (the coolest part of your hands) rub the flour and butter together gently to form it into little crumbs. You do not want the butter to smear together and this is why you use this technique, just to evenly distribute the butter without warming it up and keeping it completely coated in flour…

Continue with that method until the whole mixture has this texture (below)…

Now make a well in the middle…

And add one egg yolk to the well…

Along with 50mL of water…

Mix it around with your hands…

When it gets really thick and hard to mix about, turn it over on the counter and knead it. Knead it only for a brief period of time because we don’t want it to be a chewy pastry!

Form it into a ball shape and wrap it up in some parchment paper (or plastic wrap or something) and stick it in the fridge for 15 minutes or so, just to let the gluten rest…

Take it out of the fridge and it should look like this…

Roll it out…

And place it into a 9 inch circular pan. I put my pan over top…

Then flip it over!

I take a knife and run it along the edges to get rid of the excess dough. It is not sweet dough so I won’t be making any cookies out of it. Into the garbage it goes!