John Travolta's Crab Quiche

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 cup chilled butter
• 3 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 5 -6 tablespoons cold water
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 lb cleaned jumbo lump crabmeat (fresh, not frozen)
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chervil
• 1 cup grated monterey jack cheese
• 1 1/2 cups grated gruyere cheese
• 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
• 3 eggs, plus
• 1 egg yolk
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 to make the dough, put chilled butter, shortening, flour, and salt in a mixer with a paddle attached.
• 2 mix on medium until blended, about 3-4 minutes.
• 3 (it will look like cornmeal.) then add the water.
• 4 as soon as the dough comes together, turn the mixer off.
• 5 this should only take about 10 seconds.
• 6 (do not over mix) take dough out of machine and chill in refrigerator for about 1 hour.
• 7 prepare the custard by mixing all ingredients together.
• 8 roll out dough to about 1/4-inch thick.
• 9 line the bottom of a 9-inch pie dish.
• 10 sprinkle 1/2 of each cheese on the bottom.
• 11 add crab meat.
• 12 sprinkle herbs over crab meat.
• 13 sprinkle on the rest of the cheese.
• 14 pour custard over all the ingredients almost to the top of the pie dish.
• 15 cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 325 degrees f.
• 16 let stand 30 minutes before serving.
• 17 (recipe courtesy the national enquirer).