Ingredients

The following ingredients have 10 Servings
  • 1 1/4 cups (185g / 5.6 oz) plain white flour ((all purpose flour))
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 100g / 7 tbsp unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1cm/ 1/3" cubes
  • 3 tbsp ice cold water (+ more as required)

Instruction

  • Place flour, salt and butter in a food processor. 
  • Pulse 10 times or until it looks like breadcrumbs.
  • With the motor running on low, pour 2.5 tbsp of water into the tube feeder.
  • Turn up to high and blitz for 30 seconds or until it turns into a ball of dough. Initially it will look like breadcrumbs, then it will turn into a ball of soft dough - some random escaped bits is fine. If it doesn't look like its coming together at 20 seconds, add another 1/2 tbsp of water. Don't blitz longer than 30 seconds at most.
  • Form a disc, wrap in cling wrap. If there are escaped crumble bits, that's fine - just press them in. Refrigerate for 1 - 3 hours.
  • Preheat oven to 200C/390F (standard) or 180C/350F (fan forced)
  • Sprinkle work surface with flour, unwrap dough and place on the flour. Sprinkle top with flour, then roll out into a 27cm/11" round.
  • Gently roll the pastry so it wraps around the rolling pin.
  • Unroll it over the quiche pan or pie dish - 23cm / 9".
  • Press the pastry into the edges of the quiche pan, patching up edges if required (if pastry doesn't quite reach top of rim).
  • Roll the rolling pin across the top to cut off the excess pastry.
  • Optional extra "safe measure" refrigeration - 15 minutes. See (Note 2).
  • Place a large piece of parchment paper over the pastry, then fill with baking beads or lots of rice or dried beans to weigh it down. (Note 3)
  • Bake for 20 minutes, then remove from oven.
  •  Turn oven DOWN to 180C/350F (or 160C/320F fan).
  • Use excess paper to CAREFULLY remove hot beads, then return to oven for 10 minutes or until base is light golden.
  • Remove from oven and fill with chosen Quiche Filling. Quiche Lorraine, Salmon Quiche, Italian Sausage or your other filling of choice. 
  • The pastry will not be 100% cooked, it finishes cooking with the filling. It's cooked enough so the crust will not go soggy.