Italian Cheese Spinach Flan

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 quantity basic pastry dough, basic dough
• 6 eggs
• 2 cups whipping cream
• 1 cup pecorino cheese, grated
• 1/2 cup asiago cheese, diced
• 2 cups spinach, blanched and finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• sea salt and freshly groung pepper

Recipe

• 1 pre heat the oven to 200c (180c fan forced).
• 2 roll out the dough thinly and line 2 x 20 cm pie plates.
• 3 place piece of foil in each base and cover with raw rice or pastry weights to prevent pastry from bubbling up during the cooking & prevent shrinking.
• 4 cook the pastry 15 minutes. remove from oven and remove the foil and rice.
• 5 put eggs & cream in a bowl and whisk until well blended. add the cheese's. spinach, cayenne and salt and pepper to taste. mix well and divide the mix between the pastry shells.
• 6 reduce the oven temp to 185c (165c fan forced) and cook the flans for about 25 minutes or until the centres are set. remove and cool on rack.