Spinach and Cheese Souffle
Number of People: serves 4 (with a salad etc)
Ingredients:
1 slice of bread (grate speed 8 for 15 seconds to make breadcrumbs)
100g cheese (i used half parmesan and half tasty)
2 leaves of spinach (if you have your own garden use 3-4 medium sized young leaves so they are nice and sweet)
2 spring onions (or 1 leek)
handful of oregano
handful of parsley
250g milk
4 eggs
50g butter
50g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste
70g cream
Preparation:
Rub butter over base and sides of 4 single serve souffle dishes. Coat with breadcrumbs and shake off excess.
Preheat oven to 200'C
Grate cheese speed 8 for 10seconds. Set aside.
Place spinach, spring onions, herbs in bowl and chop at speed 7 for 15 seconds. Cook 2minutes at 100'C on speed 2.
Set aside.
Scrape the bowl out well but no need to wash in between.
Add milk, eggs, flour, butter and seasonings to bowl and mix at speed 4 for 30 seconds to combine.
Heat for 4min at 90'C on speed 3.
With 20 seconds to go I stopped the blades just long enough to measure in the cream through the lid. Then continued to heat/stir while i added the spinach mix and cheese through the lid at speed 3 to combine and warm.
Pour into souffle dishes and place on baking tray before putting into the oven.
Bake for 30minutes until lightly golden brown.
Photos:
i have a photo but it didn't load and i lost the recipe last time so i'll try again in a second...
Tips/Hints:
They didn't rise up as much as i had hoped. Perhaps you really do need to separate the eggs for that. But i was really happy with both the texture and flavour.
It was a simple recipe and the kids ate it so i'll make it again.
