Cheddar shortcrust pastry
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This is a lovely crisp pastry, perfect for meat pies or quiches and now I use nothing else now due to protests from my hubby!
Ingredients
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- 500g Plain flour
- 250g Butter
- 125g Mature Cheddar (yellow)
- 3-5tbsp cold water
- extra flour for dusting
Mise en place
- Food processor with plastic blade required
Method
- Sieve flour, cut butter into 1cm cubes and grate cheddar.
- Add everything to food processor and pulse until mixed into chucky crumbs.
- Add water one tablespoon at a time and pulse food processor until ball of dough is formed.
- Use immediately or freeze for future use
Serving suggestions
This makes 6 individual pie crusts and lids or 2x quiche crusts or 1x large pie crust and lid
Chef's notes
Using a orange coloured cheese will make the cheese noticeable in the pastry
See also
- Asparagus and broccoli flan
- Basic quiche case
- Bean and roasted red pepper flan
- Crayfish chili quiche
- Egg and bacon quiche
- Frankfurter quiche
- Kidney flan
- Prawn 'n' Pepsi flan
- Quiche Lorraine
- Smoked salmon quiche
- Spicy kidney flan
- Three cheese quiche
- Spicy three cheese flan with sesame seeds
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