Pumpkin & Silverbeet Vegan Quiche

Any vegetable works wonderfully in this recipe so mix it up! Make four baby individual quiches or two larger quiches to share.

Serves 2 | Prep  10 mins | Cooks in  50 mins


Ingredients

  • 400g pumpkin, cut in 3cm cubes

  • 1 small red onion, peeled & cut into wedges

  • 2 garlic cloves, unpeeled

  • 2 1/2 tbs olive oil

  • salt & pepper, to taste

  • 1 tbs fresh rosemary, chopped

  • 100g silverbeet, stems chopped & leaves sliced (keep separate)

  • 500g firm tofu

  • 2 tsp rice vinegar

  • 1/2 - 1 tsp sambal oelek

  • 3 tbs lemon juice

  • 2 tbs pine nuts

  • 70g mixed lettuce

  • 1 medium tomato, sliced

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C and lightly grease four small quiche dishes.

  2. Place pumpkin, onion and garlic on a baking paper-lined baking tray, sprinkle over half of the olive oil, season with salt and pepper and scatter over 2 tsp rosemary. Bake for 15 minutes or until starting to turn golden. 

  3. Add silverbeet stems and cook for 5 minutes, then add silverbeet leaves and cook for another 5 minutes.

  4. Reduce oven to 180°C. Remove garlic from baking tray and squeeze roasted garlic out of skin. Combine with crumbled tofu, vinegar, 2 tsp rosemary, sambal oelek and 2 tbs of lemon juice in a blender and whizz until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.

  5. Roughly chop roasted onion, then divide between four dishes with pumpkin and silverbeet. Pour over tofu mixture.

  6. Top with pine nuts and bake for 25-30 minutes or until set and golden.

  7. Toss lettuce and tomato with remaining olive oil and lemon juice and serve with quiche.

Nutritional information per serve

  • Energy: 3438.6kj

  • Protein: 39.1g

  • Carbs: 24.1g

  • Fibre: 22.4g

  • Sat. Fat: 7.4g

  • Fat: 58.9g

  • Calories: 821.3cal

  • Sugar: 19.4g