“It looks like a tart” you might say..”but is it a Quiche! …or a Tart?”
What defines one or the other?
It’s the amount of Appareil you use, I say. What is Appareil?
APPAREIL is a prepared mixture of ingredients used alone or as an ingredient in another preparation.
In this case is a mix of eggs, milk, cream, salt and nutmeg. If you use a little, you have a tart.
If you use a lot of it, you will end up with a Quiche. This is my story, and I’m sticking to it.
However, today I had something in between. I made a Tartish. Not a tart or a quiche per se’.
I didn’t use a lot of Appareil, so it wasn’t a quiche. It looked more like an “enhanced” tart.
Because of its richness, I am pretty sure that once you make it, slice it, and bite into it…the technicality of its name won’t be as important any more.
It is ohhh sooo good, one could even attempt to serve it as a dessert.
Dessert-iche, anyone?
Pate’ a Quiche
Ingredients ~ Makes one “tartiche”
7oz of AP flour
1 lg egg
6 1/2 Tbs of unsalted butter
4 1/2 tsp of ice water
1 tsp salt
a pinch of sugar
FILLING
Ingredients
4 1/2 oz Greek yogurt
3 oz cream
5 oz of Gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
2 oz Walnuts, chopped
1 large Anjou Pear or Bosc
2 Eggs
Salt, white pepper and a little pinch of lavender to taste.
DIRECTIONS:
For the Pate’ a Quiche, place the flour, sugar, and the salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse to mix. Add the chilled butter and pulse until the dough resembles the texture of course meal. (about 10 seconds)
With the motor running, add the eggs and the water. The dough will come together and form a ball.
Wrap the dough with clear wrap and refrigerate a few hours or overnight.
For the filling:
Pre heat oven to 350 F.
Mix the yogurt, the Gorgonzola, lavender, milk, eggs, salt, pepper.
Roll out the dough, about 1/8 of an inch. If it’s too hard, beat it with the rolling pin until it softens up.
Place it in the tart pan and poke it with a fork. Slice the pear and cover the bottom of the Tartiche with it.
Pour the egg mixture over it and top it with the walnuts.
Bake for 40 minutes or until golden and nicely browned.
Serve it with honey, sliced pears and Powdered Blue Cheese
Until next time, mangia!
