Spinach & Wild Mushroom Quiche

Carmella · #1 11-08-2007, 06:43 PM

Ah man! Me and this guy have a thing going... I've been working on a mushroom quiche and was planning on perfecting it with Fairygirl next week. Guess he beat me to it! lol

Spinach & Wild Mushroom Quiche
By Russell James
Published in his 'News From the Kitchen' eZine, Issue #6*

Makes 4 small quiches

This recipe will require you to make the bases ahead of time.

For the base
1c cashew
1/4c macadamia nuts
2T flax meal (ground flax seed)
1 clove crushed garlic
1T nutritional yeast
2t olive oil
1/4t salt
3T water
1T lemon juice

Grind all ingredients in a food processor until thoroughly mixed, leaving some texture to the nuts.
Press into plastic film lined individual tart cases *so you have a thin crust. You will find that regularly dipping your fingers in a bowl of water helps with this.
Place bases onto a mesh dehydrator sheet and dehydrate at 115 degrees F for 2 hours. They should now be firm enough to remove from the tart cases so you can continue to dehydrate them for a further 6 hours.

*Tart cases should be approx 11cm wide and no than about 1cm high, to allow the mixture (details to follow) to dehydrate inside.

For the filling
2c wild mushrooms (or substitute for any type of available mushroom)
1/2t salt
1T lemon juice

Wash and roughly chop the mushrooms, then marinate them in the salt and lemon juice and set aside.

2c courgettes (zucchini)
1/4c water
1 1/2c cashews
1/4c white miso
2t lemon juice
1/2 medium white onion
3T nutritional yeast
1T powdered psyllium husk
1/2t salt

Blend all ingredients in a high-powered blender until smooth.

2c tightly-packed spinach
2T olive oil
1/4t salt

Pulse spinach, olive oil and salt in a food processor for 10 to 20 seconds until broken down.
Drain the mushrooms from earlier and transfer them to a large bowl, along with the blended courgette (zucchini) mixture, and spinach. Then also mix in the following ingredients:

1/4c finely sliced spring onions
1c diced tomatoes
1T minced basil

Once thoroughly mixed, pour this mixture into the bases. You'll need to slightly overfill the bases as the filling will reduce slightly in the dehydrator.
Dehydrate overnight and during the day, for anything up to 24 hours.
Remove from the dehydrator and decorate with slices of tomato and fresh basil sprigs. It's also a good idea to brush the top of the quiche with a small amount of olive oil, to make them more appealing in their appearance.

*To sign up for Russell's ‘News From The Kitchen’ bi-monthly eZine, Click Here!

wyjoz · #2 11-08-2007, 08:05 PM

It just hot off the press and I got e-mail to make this for our Raw Thanksgiving Pot Luck ! Yah Right ! I would have to make like 20 of them if not more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks good we'll have to do my own private Quiche Pot Luck !

Russell every time he comes out with a recipe; I 'bow down' to him !!!!! yeah doing it again !

Joz

aisah · #3 11-08-2007, 10:28 PM

*bows bows to the quiche*

This will have to be one of the many PROJECT R.A.W.

Danke Russell James

best ~ a

wyjoz · #4 11-08-2007, 10:47 PM

First we do '''GREEN' I Screeeeeeeeeeem and then the Quiche? we are waiting for you to set the date; remember?

to Greeeeeeeeen ! to Health ! Joz

Carmella · #5 11-08-2007, 10:52 PM

Jozzie, what are you doing still up? It's past your bed time!

aisah · #6 11-08-2007, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carmella

Jozzie, what are you doing still up? It's past your bed time!

Ja Jozzie!!!?? *tsk tsk*.... *tweety shaking her head with her wings on her hips*....

Mosaica · #7 11-08-2007, 11:03 PM

OMG, this looks amazing! But it's quite a time-consuming recipe, I'm sure I'd make it for hours and hours... So I'll wait until someone else makes it first.

aisah · #8 11-08-2007, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wyjoz

First we do '''GREEN' I Screeeeeeeeeeem and then the Quiche? we are waiting for you to set the date; remember?

to Greeeeeeeeen ! to Health ! Joz

Okay okay... calling out to Carmi Hippie cRAWkie.... hey you guys can go ahead and make the green *sheesh what a name to call it dodo??* i-scream and we will ogle from the other side of the screen....

ja ja Jozzie, I will keep you track of my PROJECT R.A.W. green(???) i-scream.... no Mr K will not eat it if its green

its mint, pistachios me dear... he loves those and cacao and me....

Pansy · #9 11-09-2007, 06:27 AM

Awe Carmella,

This looks great and that crust! Yummy!

Pansy

wyjoz · #10 11-09-2007, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mosaica

OMG, this looks amazing! But it's quite a time-consuming recipe, I'm sure I'd make it for hours and hours... So I'll wait until someone else makes it first.

If you choose to make it with us on a set day RAW PROJECT it will not be a time consuming recipe; it will become FUN ! ask Aisah !

so we post a day and everyone will be making the Quiche Fun not complicated or time consuming; trust me, that's how it works ! Joz

wyjoz · #11 11-09-2007, 09:27 AM

ah Aisah; we are ALL doing this TOGETHER ! Ja Ja ?

teach Mr Kandy '''''GO GREEN GO HEALTHY""""" that's a world project ! LOL

Carmi Ja I was sooooooooo wound up last night made to bed later than I wanted to; then in bed just rolled 'things' in my head!

Mosaica · #12 11-09-2007, 09:43 AM

Tak, tak Jozzie... That's the only way for me to make it. I'll go and get some spinach today.

Aisah, maybe you shold start to wear GREEN underwear... That way mr. Kandy will fall in love with green! See, everything is just a question of training.

wyjoz · #13 11-09-2007, 10:01 AM

I think we will be doing this 'raw' woldl effort day in January? miss Aisah is toooooooooooooooo buisy now. If you want to wait for the group and do it with us? Joz

Mosaica · #14 11-09-2007, 10:04 AM

Sure I can wait. January would be even better for me because I have to get some nutritional yeast what I couldn't find locally so hopefully I can get some next month when we go to Vancouver.

wyjoz · #15 11-09-2007, 11:09 AM

Aisah; will announce and/or post the date and we will ???? do the 'joint thingy' I love love this! Joz