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Revision as of 18:11, 18 March 2014
This tasty flan would work as a starter or a main course and would be great cold on a picnic.
Ingredients
Ingredients
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- 350 g (12 oz) Ready rolled shortcrust pastry
- 25 g ( 1 oz) butter
- 1 onion, peeled and chopped
- 1 small clove Garlic
- 1 bell pepper, de-seeded and chopped into thin slices
- 6 lambs kidneys, trimmed and chopped finely
- 1 teaspoon of sherry vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of freshly chopped parsley
- 3 free range eggs, beaten
- 45 ml (3 tablespoons) of milk
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Mise en place
- Pre-heat the oven to 200° C (400° F - Gas 6)
Method
- Roll the pastry and use it to line a greased 20 cm (8") flan tray, a pastry mat is a useful aid for this.
- Bake blind at 200° C (400° F - Gas 6) for 10 minutes
- Beat the eggs and the milk and season to taste with salt and pepper
- Melt the butter in a frying pan or wok and gently fry the onions and garlic until soft, about 5 minutes
- Add the chopped kidneys and fry for 4 minutes, stirring all the time
- Season with pepper and then deglaze the pan with a teaspoon of sherry vinegar
- Mix the chopped parsley into the kidney mixture
- Fill the flan with the kidney mixture
- Pour the beaten eggs over the kidneys
- Reduce the heat of the oven to 180° C (350° F - Gas 4)
- Bake for a further 40 minutes
Serving suggestions
Serve hot or cold
Chef's note
In the photographs, I also added parsley to the egg mixture, but when poured into the kidneys, it was way too much parsley (which would then probably have burnt) so I removed it from the egg mixture before baking.
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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