Easy Cheese and Onion Flan

Serves 6-8
Prep Time 5 mins
Cooking Time 1 Hr 15 mins
Ingredients

• 14oz/400g Ready made short crust pastry
• 1 Large onion, roughly chopped
• 1 Tbsp Olive oil
• 2 Large free range eggs
• 284ml/10fl oz Low fat crème fraiche
• 250g/9oz cheese (of your choice) see cooks tips

Method

• Roll out the pastry until large enough to line a 23cm/9 inch loose bottomed flan tin
• Leave any excess pastry overhanging (pastry shrinks slightly when cooking and you can slice the excess off when cooked)
• Line the pastry with greaseproof paper
• Fill with baking beans (I used dried macaroni)
• Bake in a preheated oven 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 6 for 15 mins
• Take out the paper and beans and cook for another 10 mins
• Meanwhile soften the onion in the oil, over a low heat for about 10 mins
• Whisk the eggs and crème fraiche together and season.
• Blitz all the cheeses together and pull them apart to lay on the pastry case
• Add the onion on top
• Pour in the crème fraiche mixture
• Turn the oven down to 160°C/325°F/Gas mark 3
• Bake on the middle shelf for about 40-50 mins until set (see cooks tips)

Cooks tip
• I used a very large onion
• If you don't have a food blender just pull the cheeses apart into small pieces
• Check the flan after 40 mins (I put it back in for another 10 mins, then put under the grill for a minute or two to get a golden brown top

Equipment

• Large frying pan or wok
• 23cm/9 inch loose bottomed flan tin
• Food blender

Shopping List

• 14oz/400g Ready made short crust pastry
• 1 Large onion
• 1 Tbsp Olive oil
• 2 Large free range eggs
• 284ml/10fl oz Low fat crème fraiche
• 250g/9oz cheese ( I used 85g/3oz Brie, 85g/3oz Stilton, 85g/3oz Cheddar)

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