Green tomato quiche
( Torta salata con pomodori verdi )

Green tomato quiche recipe

Preparation and cooking

• - Wash tomatoes and divide into quarters.
• - Cut off zucchini ends. Wash them and cut into coarse pieces.
• - Clean leek. Wash and cut into large slices.
• - Clean hot chilli pepper and remove its seeds if you want.
• - Put all your vegetables in a large pan.
• - Add capers and sugar.
• - Season to taste with salt and stir very well.
• - Cover with cold water.
• - Bring to a boil, lower heat and continue cooking, stirring now and then, until all vegetables are tender, about an hour.
• - Turn off the stove, let your mixture cool and then put it through a food mill.
• - Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
• - Grease a baking pan with olive oil and sprinkle with flour.
• - Line your baking pan with pizza dough.
• - Prick its bottom with a fork.
• - Spoon tomato mixture and level surface.
• - Sprinkle chives on the top.
• - Bake until dough is golden, 25 to 30 minutes.

Just before serving

• - Let your savory tart rest for few minutes and serve, sliced.

Tips and menu planning

Tips

• - This savory tart can be made in early autumn when you can find green tomatoes easily.
• - You can modify some doses according to your own taste: increase capers or hot chilli pepper ...
  Besides you can use pizza dough with whole wheat flour as you can see in the photo.
• - You can use homemade pizza dough or ready-to-bake pizza dough or, if preferred, salt shortcrust pastry. Links to recipes below.

Menu planning

• - This quiche is a vegan recipe.
  But you can combine it with smoked salmon or tuna or salami if you don't follow a vegan diet.
  It may be a perfect starter if you have guests (in this case it serves more people) or one-plate meal in your family menu.

Useful links for this recipe

• - Here's the link to pizza directory where you can find a lot of recipes to do homemade pizza dough with different flours and yeasts.
• - On the contrary, if you prefer salt shortcrust pastry, follow this link.

Healthy eating

• - If you compare this savory tart filled with green tomatoes to other similar recipes, you can notice it is not a high.calorie dish but be careful to servings :))

Loretta

What's the right wine for " Green tomato quiche "?

My suggestion is to match this vegetable quiche with a new wine (vino novello) if you make it in november. Alternatively choose a red wine that mustn't be tannic or aged.