Quiche Recipe

Bridal shower food is a vague term, to be very honest with you. You could include a never ending list of snacks, eateries, main courses, desserts and drinks under the term “bridal shower food”. After all, bridal showers allow plenty of space for fun and flexibility when it comes to bending traditional formalities.

The bridal shower menu should reflect all of that. The bridal shower organizer should enjoy herself when it comes to planning the menu. Mix and match a wide assortment of dishes adhering to a very few rules (all of which can be found on our 'Menu for Bridal Shower' page). However, there is also a (much smaller and much more finite) list of most appropriate kind of bridal shower food. And one of the most traditionally expected savories at a bridal shower happens to be the quiche!

Bridal Shower Quiche

These happen to be a staple at bridal showers. This yum-tacular goodie comes in a diverse range of flavors and preparations, potato being the most addictive (and fattening one of them all!). An event like a bridal shower calls for something more festive and unique. While the potato flavor happens to be the most popular, a tomato based flavor is more appropriate for bridal showers (a tomato tends to be much kinder to the waist line than her stepsister, the potato!).

Tomato Quiche Recipe

Below you will find the recipe for the tomato flavor with an addition of bacon to set the taste buds on fire! However, all bacon involvement is optional so even if you have strict non-meat eaters on your guest list, our recipe takes their eating sensibilities into account as well.

So let us jump into the heat of the action immediately! First we begin with a list of the

Ingredients

• Pie crust (Pre-baked and about nine inches)
• If you are using pastry dough, get a pound of it or so
• Grated cheese (about three to four ounces)
• Eggs
• Milk
• Tomatoes (A couple will do)
• Onion
• A pie / tartlet pan (about the same inch as your pie crust)
• Salt and pepper

Procedure

There are two ways of preparing this savory. Either with pre baked pie crust or pastry. If you are using the former then skip the next step of the recipe.

Start rolling out the pastry on a board. Of course you need to flour the board otherwise your pastry is going to stick to it and well, you don’t want to waste all that pastry dough now, would you? Now, the way you usually do with pie batter, take your pastry and stick it on the pie/ tartlet pan. Expand it by rubbing it all over the surface, the corners and up the sides. See that no excess is left falling over the sides of the pan. Cut off any such excess with a knife. Later, start making holes with a toothpick on the pastry stuck on the bottom surface of the pan. Yes, just like you do for a pizza! This is done to ensure that no air is trapped on the underside of the base crust while baking so as to avoid the bubbling of such trapped air on the surface of the pastry.

Baking usually tends to shrink the pastry dough so take a pre-emptive step to avoid this. Refrigerate your pastry pan for about half an hour. Then you may keep it in the oven (baking temperatures of 180 to 190 degree C). Continue baking for about ten to fifteen minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and let it cool outside for some time.

Next up, we prepare the egg flan. With the help of the mixing bowl, we mix together the eggs (about two) and salt and pepper. One by one pour in the milk (which should preferably be warm), then toss in the grated cheese, an lastly chop your onions neatly and toss them into the bowl; use a potato masher to beat them all together in the mixing bowl. Pour the flan into the baked pastry crust without spilling and wasting any of it.

Since these are tomato flavored quiches, bring in your tomatoes and finely chop them into tiny, teeny pieces. Sprinkle these tomato pieces on your flan inside the crust. Set the pie pan back into the oven and bake for another half an hour or so, at the same temperature as before, until the filling rises or attains a crispy, brownish gold hue.

Serving Bridal Shower Snacks

When your tartlets have cooled, you may either cut them and thread them on toothpicks, or serve them to your shower guests just the way they are. You may also ornament them with shredded cheese or sprigs of basil.

These are one of those dishes which can be prepared and stored for a long, long time. So you could bake them about three to four days in advance of the shower and have them in the refrigerator. This opens up opportunities for you to concentrate on other aspects of the bridal shower, like décor and games setup. Non messy, highly adorable in presentation, light on the calorie count and a regular at every bridal shower, these little darlings have to exist in some form or the other on your bridal shower menu. And if they happen to be tomato flavored, even better. Cheesy line alert! For what better way to paint the town red than with a bride to be and a tomato quiche?