Quiche Lorraine

Quiche Lorraine is perhaps the most common variety of quiche. In addition to the eggs and cream, it includes bacon or lardons. I know cheese is not really an ingredient of a true Quiche Lorraine, but rather than use double cream, I prefer to use mascarpone cheese or ricotta cheese, both or more like cream than cheese and work really well in a savoury flan.

Quiche Lorraine

Servings:	Serves 2 as a main or 4 as a starter
Calories per serving:	747
Ready in:	50 minutes
Prep. time:	10 minutes
Cook time:	40 minutes
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	Chef
First published:	31st January 2013

Twice now, I've forgotten to put greaseproof paper under the baking beans. Perhaps this picture will remind me next time!

Ingredients

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• 157 g (6 oz) -half a block of ready-made shortcrust pastry
• 3 free range eggs, beaten
• 45 ml (4 tablespoons) of milk
• 3 tablespoons of mascarpone cheese or ricotta cheese
• 5 rashers of cooked bacon, home smoked bacon or ham, chopped into tiny pieces.
• * Our bacon is smoked and dried for 4 months so can be eaten without cooking rather like ham. If you're using normal bacon I would cook it first.
• freshly ground black pepper
• Slices of tomato or red pepper or green pepper or a mixture of all to garnish

Mise en place

• Preheat the oven to 200° C (400° F - Gas 6)

Method

1. Roll the pastry and use it to line a greased 20 cm (8") push-out flan dish
2. Bake blind at 200° C (400° F - Gas 6) for 10 minutes
3. Beat the eggs, milk, mascarpone cheese and season to taste with pepper - salt won't be needed with the bacon
4. Stir in the bacon pieces
5. Pour the egg and bacon mixture into the blind-baked flan case
6. Decorate with whatever you have to hand, I used half of a green pepper, sliced, but use whatever you have to hand, tomatoes look and taste good.
7. Reduce the heat of the oven to 180° C (350° F - Gas 4)
8. Bake for a further 40 minutes

Serving suggestions

Serve hot or cold

See also

• Asparagus and broccoli flan
• Basic quiche case
• Bean and roasted red pepper flan
• Crayfish chili quiche
• Egg and bacon quiche
• Frankfurter quiche
• Kidney flan
• Prawn 'n' Pepsi flan
• Quiche Lorraine
• Smoked salmon quiche
• Spicy kidney flan
• Three cheese quiche
• Spicy three cheese flan with sesame seeds

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• Blind baking
• Baking beans
• Cheddar shortcrust pastry
• Quiche dish
• Category:Pies tarts and flans

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