Cheese, onion, and cherry tomato quiche

I made up this easy recipe last night.

Ingredients:

• 250 g plain flour
• Salt and pepper
• Water
• Oil
• A handful of cherry tomatoes
• An onion
• 100g Gruyère cheese
• Two eggs
• 250ml milk or cream

Equipment:

• Cling film
• A 28 inch tart or flan tin
• Baking beans
• Tin foil

1. Mix 250g flour and a pinch of salt in a large bowl.
2. Heat 6 tablespoons water and 6 tablespoons oil until they combine. Don't overheat or you will burn yourself in the next step.
3. Pour the oil and water into the flour. Mix with a spoon at first and then with your hands until it forms into a ball of dough.
4. Wrap it in cling film and chill it in the fridge for 20-30 minutes (don't skip this step or the pastry will be too difficult to work with).
5. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
6. Put about 12-15 cherry tomatoes in a roasting dish, drizzle with olive oil and season.
7. Flour the work surface and the rolling pin, then roll out your pastry and use to line a 25cm flan tin (see pastry post for tips!).
8. Bake blind (prick all over base, line with foil and baking beans) for 10 minutes, then remove the foil and beans and bake for another 10 minutes. At the same time bake the tomatoes in the oven for 20 minutes.
9. Chop an onion and fry gently in some butter until it's golden and soft.
10. Grate about 100g Gruyère cheese.
11. Remove the case from the oven. Tip the onions into the case and spread them out. Arrange the tomatoes on top of the onion (using some tongs and making sure to not splash too much of the oily-watery liquid which the tomatoes will be sitting in into the case). Sprinkle the cheese over the top.
12. Mix 250ml milk or cream with 2 medium eggs in a jug. Season with salt and pepper. Pour this over the quiche filling.
13. Bake for 25-30 minutes until the filling is set.
14. Enjoy with salad, mashed potato, rice, or whatever you fancy!

This would also be great with some herbs. Basil, for example, goes really nicely with tomatoes, so you could either tear some basil leaves into the filling before you pour the egg mixture over, or just add some dried basil to the egg mixture.