How to Cook the Perfect Quiche Lorraine
A Simple and Quick Quiche Recipe
This recipe is a firm family favourite, and with only forty minutes of preparation and cooking time, it can work just as well as a quick fix for a dinner, or a great recipe for entertaining friends.
Quiche is a highly adaptable dish, as just about anything from the bottom of the refrigerator or salad drawer can be added in to make it more interesting! There is nothing nicer than taking a wholesome and delicious piping-hot quiche dish from the oven, with its lovely texture and cheesy filling. This recipe can be served hot with peas and a jacket potato, warm with a hearty salad, or cut into slices and served cold as part of a buffet meal when entertaining for large numbers of people.
This recipe serves six people.
Ingredients:
- 250 g of stoneground flour
- 125 g of butter, very cold
- 1 pinch of salt
- 4 medium eggs
- 200 g slab of bacon
- 250 g of crème fraîche or cooking cream
- 200g of swiss or cheddar cheese, freshly grated
- 1 pinch of nutmeg
- salt and pepper to taste
Method:
- Sieve the flour into a bowl, then add the butter chopped into small cubes. Add the salt and one egg. Knead quickly to form a smooth dough. Cover the dough and leave in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to chill.
- Blanch the bacon rashers in boiling water for two minutes, and then pot all excess moisture off the rashers with kitchen paper. Mix the remaining three eggs with the crème fraîche and cheese, and then add in the spices and salt.
- Grease the baking tin. Roll out the dough on a floured surface. Place the dough into the baking tin, making a 3 cm edge around the side. Cover the dough with the bacon rashers, and then pour the egg and cream mixture into the tin.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180c for 35 min, or until the centre of the quiche has set firmly. Leave the quiche in the tin to serve.
Additional Information
This recipe can be modified by adding in herbs such as fresh chives, tarragon or coriander to vary the flavour. Small cubes of boiled potatoes, peas or sweetcorn can also be added in. for an interesting dish, try omitting the bacon and using a tin of tuna flakes instead. The beauty of quiche is that it is an ideal simple recipe to cook when there are spare ingredients left over in the fridge that need to be used up. Some people put a layer of tomato puree in the bottom of the quiche, spread on to the pastry, to live it up a little before the topping is added in.
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