Beetroot Quiche (with a Side Salad)
A quick and easy veggie quiche with beetroot.
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This quiche is a basic recipe: the version shown here is made with beetroot, but it can easily be modified with other vegetables. The best known is probably Quiche Lorraine, which is essentially a filling of bacon, eggs, and cream. But there are no (well, very few) limits to your imagination: It can be made with spinach, tomatoes, courgettes, asparagus or whatever else you have in the house.
Quiche is the perfect meal to prepare and reheat: it’s delicious fresh from the oven, but you can also eat it cold afterwards or heat it up again.
A small salad is the perfect accompaniment to quiche: the slight acidity of the dressing and the crunch of the fresh lettuce leaves contrast well with the soft quiche and make it a little easier to digest.
If you’re in a hurry, you can use ready-made dough from the fridge - but I haven’t found one I really like yet. The dough is very quick and easy to make: So if you spend the extra five minutes, you’ll be rewarded with what I think is a much better result.
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Recipe
Beetroot quiche
Ingredients
Preparation Time: 20 min
Total Time: 60 min
Servings: 6
- • 250 g flour
- • 2 g salt
- • 125 g butter
- • 1 egg
- • 20 ml milk
- • 1 onion
- • 1 clove of garlic
- • 20 g oil
- • 4 eggs
- • 250 ml milk
- • 500 g beetroot (cooked and peeled)
- • 4 g salt
- • 1 pinch of nutmeg
- • 50 g grated cheese
- • about 120 g salad
- • 4 tablespoons of oil
- • 2 tablespoons vinegar
- • 1-2 teaspoons mustard
- • 1 teaspoon honey, agave syrup or a similar sweetener
- • 1 pinch of salt
- • 1 pinch of pepper
Ingredients
Servings: 6
Preparation Time: 20 min
Total Time: 60 min
- • 250 g flour
- • 2 g salt
- • 125 g butter
- • 1 egg
- • 20 ml milk
- • 1 onion
- • 1 clove of garlic
- • 20 g oil
- • 4 eggs
- • 250 ml milk
- • 500 g beetroot (cooked and peeled)
- • 4 g salt
Instructions
- 1 Prepare the dough: Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl. Cut the cold butter into small pieces and add. Knead the butter into the flour with a spoon and/or your hands (don't use a food processor - it won't work). Add the egg and milk and knead again. Shape into a ball and chill until step six.
- 2 For the filling, peel and chop the onion and garlic. Fry in a pan with a little oil until the onions are soft.
- 3 Dice the beetroot.
- 4 For the glaze, whisk the eggs and milk together in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper, then add the beetroot, fried onion and garlic and mix. Add the grated cheese.
- 5 Preheat the oven to 200°C (fan oven).
- 6 Spread a little flour on the work surface and put the dough on it. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough until it is slightly larger than the tin in which the quiche will be baked. Line the tin with greaseproof paper, spread the pastry into the tin and pull up the sides of the tin to form a rim. Prick the base of the pastry with a fork.
- 7 Blind bake in the oven for about 5 minutes - cover the dough with baking paper and sprinkle the dried lentils/peas/chickpeas on top to prevent the dough from bubbling.
- 8 When blind baked, remove the baking tin from the oven and remove the pulses used for blind baking. (The pulses *don't* have to be thrown away, you can always reuse them for blind baking if you store them in an empty jam jar in the meantime, for example) Then add the actual filling and icing to the dough in the pan.
- 9 Bake in the middle of the oven for 30-40 minutes.
- 10 While the quiche is baking, you can relax and prepare the side salad: For the dressing, mix the oil, vinegar, mustard, honey, salt and pepper in a bowl. Wash the lettuce and add to the dressing just before serving.
Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint: 1440 g CO₂e
This ranks it number 22 out of 58 recipes published on the blog so far in terms of estimated carbon footprint.
The estimated emissions are therefore slightly better than the average of the recipes.
Among the ingredients, butter stands out: We use very little butter in the dough, and it accounts for only 6% of the weight of the ingredients, but more than 25% of the carbon emissions of the dish. This is, of course, due to the carbon footprint of rearing animals to produce milk and the fact that a relatively large amount of milk is needed to make butter: Around 20-25 litres of milk are needed to make 1kg of butter. Of course, it is possible to replace butter with other ingredients - for example, many ready-made doughs in the supermarket use palm oil, which has a better carbon footprint than butter, but is sometimes produced under ethically questionable conditions.
Of the ingredients in the quiche, beetroot and lettuce are roughly the opposite of butter: together they make up about 40% of the total weight of the ingredients, but only about 5% of the carbon footprint.
Comparison of Ingredients
| Ingredients | Carbon footprint per kg | Carbon footprint for recipe | % of ingredients | % of CO₂ emissions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flour | 0.9 | 74 | 12% | 5% |
| salt | 1.1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| butter | 9.0 | 375 | 6% | 26% |
| egg | 3.0 | 50 | 2% | 3% |
| milk | 1.4 | 9 | 1% | 1% |
| onion | 0.2 | 5 | 4% | 0% |
| garlic | 0.5 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| oil | 3.2 | 21 | 1% | 1% |
| egg | 3.0 | 200 | 10% | 14% |
| milk | 1.4 | 117 | 12% | 8% |
| beetroot | 0.2 | 33 | 24% | 2% |
| salt | 1.1 | 2 | 0% | 0% |
| nutmeg | 1.1 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| grated cheese | 5.7 | 95 | 2% | 7% |
| lettuce | 0.3 | 36 | 17% | 3% |
| oil | 3.2 | 64 | 3% | 4% |
| vinegar | 1.4 | 14 | 1% | 1% |
| mustard | 1.4 | 14 | 1% | 1% |
| honey | 2.0 | 20 | 1% | 1% |
| salt | 1.1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| pepper | 1.1 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Sauté onion and garlic (5min) | 24 | 2% | ||
| Bake quiche (35min) | 284 | 20% |
Instructions
- 1 Prepare the dough: Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl. Cut the cold butter into small pieces and add. Knead the butter into the flour with a spoon and/or your hands (don't use a food processor - it won't work). Add the egg and milk and knead again. Shape into a ball and chill until step six.
- 2 For the filling, peel and chop the onion and garlic. Fry in a pan with a little oil until the onions are soft.
- 3 Dice the beetroot.
- 4 For the glaze, whisk the eggs and milk together in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper, then add the beetroot, fried onion and garlic and mix. Add the grated cheese.
- 5 Preheat the oven to 200°C (fan oven).
- 6 Spread a little flour on the work surface and put the dough on it. Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough until it is slightly larger than the tin in which the quiche will be baked. Line the tin with greaseproof paper, spread the pastry into the tin and pull up the sides of the tin to form a rim. Prick the base of the pastry with a fork.
- 7 Blind bake in the oven for about 5 minutes - cover the dough with baking paper and sprinkle the dried lentils/peas/chickpeas on top to prevent the dough from bubbling.
- 8 When blind baked, remove the baking tin from the oven and remove the pulses used for blind baking. (The pulses *don't* have to be thrown away, you can always reuse them for blind baking if you store them in an empty jam jar in the meantime, for example) Then add the actual filling and icing to the dough in the pan.
- 9 Bake in the middle of the oven for 30-40 minutes.
- 10 While the quiche is baking, you can relax and prepare the side salad: For the dressing, mix the oil, vinegar, mustard, honey, salt and pepper in a bowl. Wash the lettuce and add to the dressing just before serving.
Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint (2 portions): 1440 g CO₂e
This ranks it number 22 out of 58 recipes published on the blog so far in terms of estimated carbon footprint.
The estimated emissions are therefore slightly better than the average of the recipes.
Among the ingredients, butter stands out: We use very little butter in the dough, and it accounts for only 6% of the weight of the ingredients, but more than 25% of the carbon emissions of the dish. This is, of course, due to the carbon footprint of rearing animals to produce milk and the fact that a relatively large amount of milk is needed to make butter: Around 20-25 litres of milk are needed to make 1kg of butter. Of course, it is possible to replace butter with other ingredients - for example, many ready-made doughs in the supermarket use palm oil, which has a better carbon footprint than butter, but is sometimes produced under ethically questionable conditions.
Of the ingredients in the quiche, beetroot and lettuce are roughly the opposite of butter: together they make up about 40% of the total weight of the ingredients, but only about 5% of the carbon footprint.
Comparison of Ingredients
| Ingredients | Carbon footprint per kg | Carbon footprint for recipe | % of ingredients | % of CO₂ emissions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flour | 0.9 | 74 | 12% | 5% |
| salt | 1.1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| butter | 9.0 | 375 | 6% | 26% |
| egg | 3.0 | 50 | 2% | 3% |
| milk | 1.4 | 9 | 1% | 1% |
| onion | 0.2 | 5 | 4% | 0% |
| garlic | 0.5 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| oil | 3.2 | 21 | 1% | 1% |
| egg | 3.0 | 200 | 10% | 14% |
| milk | 1.4 | 117 | 12% | 8% |
| beetroot | 0.2 | 33 | 24% | 2% |
| salt | 1.1 | 2 | 0% | 0% |
| nutmeg | 1.1 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| grated cheese | 5.7 | 95 | 2% | 7% |
| lettuce | 0.3 | 36 | 17% | 3% |
| oil | 3.2 | 64 | 3% | 4% |
| vinegar | 1.4 | 14 | 1% | 1% |
| mustard | 1.4 | 14 | 1% | 1% |
| honey | 2.0 | 20 | 1% | 1% |
| salt | 1.1 | 1 | 0% | 0% |
| pepper | 1.1 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
| Sauté onion and garlic (5min) | 24 | 2% | ||
| Bake quiche (35min) | 284 | 20% |