RECIPE: Claire's mum's Broccoli and Bean flan

As mentioned in previous posts, my lovely friend Claire cooked an amazing tea for me on Saturday night. She made broccoli and kidney bean quiche, which isn't an obvious combination. It was one her mum cut out of a magazine decades ago and used to feed to Claire when she was a child, and she has very kindly agreed to let me post the recipe here:

INGREDIENTS:

Claire's mum's original cut-out

75g butter

175g wholemeal flour

200ml milk

100g broccoli florrets

300g can kidney beans, drained

100g cheddar or double Gloucester cheese

3 eggs

100ml single cream

METHOD:

Rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Mix to a dough with about 3tsps of the milk. Roll out onto a floured surface, work into a greased flan tin and bake blind at 200C for 10 minutes. Meanwhile boil or steam the broccoli for 2-5 minutes (to taste). Take the pastry case out of the oven and arrange the broccoli, kidney beans and cheese at the bottom of the flan. Beat eggs and mix with cream and remaining milk, then pour over the flan to form a topping. Bake for 35 minutes or until set.

Mmmmmmmm amazing tea - thanks Claire!