Vegetable water softens pastry. Sauté the vegetables before mixing with egg and milk. The ham bakes inside this filling and its texture changes.
Serves 4 · about 80 minutes · 24 cm tin
Ingredients and timing for 4
Serves 4 · 80 min
Approximate timings for this editorial recipe proposal, which has not been kitchen-tested. Adjust cooking to your ingredients and equipment.
- 1 shortcrust pastry sheet, about 250 g
- 250 g courgette
- 250 g button mushrooms
- 1 onion, about 100 g
- 3 eggs and 200 ml milk
- 80 g cured ham strips
- 2 tablespoons olive oil; pepper and salt to taste
Step-by-step method
- Heat the oven to 180 °C. Line a 24 cm tin, prick the base and blind bake with paper and baking weights for about 12–15 minutes, following the pastry pack.
- Wash and cut courgette, mushrooms and onion. Sauté with oil for about 10 minutes until liquid evaporates. Cool slightly. Beat eggs and milk and add vegetables and ham.
- Remove paper and baking weights. Pour into the crust and bake about 30–35 minutes until the centre is firm and reaches at least 72 °C on a thermometer. Shield the top if it browns early. Rest about 10 minutes before cutting into four.
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A golden edge does not prove the centre is cooked: check it. Timing varies with tin and oven.
Contains egg, milk and usually wheat; check pastry and ham labels. Use clean utensils after raw egg contact. No cream is added.
The selection follows the Jamones Paco Heredia catalogue. Editorial photographs illustrate formats; check the collection for current products and their details.
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