A great way to practice making pie crust with the holidays coming up! This is a simple, delicious, hot breakfast that can even be prepped the night before so it's ready to bake in the morning.
Ingredients
Pie Crust:
8 Tbsp (1 stick) Butter, chilled until very cold
170g All Purpose Flour (about 1 1/3 cups), plus more for rolling
1 Tbsp (13g) Sugar
1/2 tsp Salt
4-8 Tbsp Ice Water (will vary slightly based on your ingredients and climate)
Quiche: (note: I made extra in the video and baked it separately - the quantities below are for one 9 inch quiche)
1 Pie Crust
6-8 Eggs (depending on size)
1/4 cup Milk
1/4 cup Heavy Cream (can substitute with milk)
1 (4 oz) can Diced Green Chiles
2 cups Monterrey Jack (or other) Cheese, grated
Directions:
Pie Crust:
Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Use your fingers to squeeze and flatten the butter into the flour mixture. Continue until mostly small pieces remain - few larger pieces is fine. The mixture should be coarse with a lot of small bits and a few larger pieces of butter visible. Slowly add 4 tablespoons ice water while tossing the mixture then, using your hands, mix and knead together until the dough just barely comes and holds together. Wrap tightly in plastic and refrigerate at least 2 hours. Remove from the fridge, let sit out for 5 minutes to soften slightly, roll out, line your pie or tart pan, and freeze for 10 minutes prior to baking. Remove from the freezer, dock the bottom of the dough with a fork, then line with aluminum foil (you can use pie weights if you have them but if you just press the foil firmly down/around into the dough, it'll hold the dough up on its own). Bake at 425 F for 25-30 mins, remove the weights/aluminum foil, REDUCE the oven temp to 350 F, and bake another 20-25 minutes until par-baked and golden brown.
Tip: keeping the butter cold is the most important thing here. Put your butter in the freezer for ~15 minutes before adding to the flour mixture. The dough will warm as your work it so faster is better - we want little distinct pieces of un-melted butter throughout the dough.
Quiche:
Par-bake your pie crust. Beat eggs in a large bowl. Add milk, cream, chiles, salt, and cheese. Pour mixture into crust (any extra can easily be baked in a greased baking dish without a crust). Bake at 375 F for 45-55 minutes, or until the center is set and cooked through.