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The Quiché Lorraine

Sara Manaure
4 min de lectura
The Quiché Lorraine – Gastronomy – WebMediums
The Quiché Lorraine.

Quiché Lorraine is typical French food that is shaped like a savory cake, with shortcrust pastry, filled with milk cream and eggs.

Currently, there are many "Quiché" that are prepared differently. However, this La Quiché Lorraine recipe is considered the starter recipe.

So it can serve as the basis for any combination you want to make, in terms of filling. Consider then what is the characteristic that makes this recipe unique.

On the broken dough

One of the main characteristics of this recipe is the application of the shortcrust pastry. This is nothing more than a dough that reminds us of the consistency of a cookie.

They can be made sweet for desserts or savory for more complete dishes like this one. It may or may not even contain an egg in its preparation.

You can either buy it in the market or choose to make it yourself. This last option always gives a better result, even if they excite good brands in the market.

Once you learn how to prepare it, you can create all the variants you want. Don't think about it any more and go ahead and learn about French food.

The Quiché Lorraine – Gastronomy – WebMediums
Plated Quiché Lorraine.

Ingredients

  • 200 grams of shortcrust dough.

  • Nutmeg.

  • Pepper.

  • Salt.

  • Sulphurous paper.

  • 500 grams of heavy cream.

  • 200 grams of bacon.

Preparation of the Quiché Lorraine

For the mass

1. To start, you have to prepare the dough for the base. Spread it out on a floured surface until it is about 5 millimeters thick.

2. Place on a mold a base of parchment or kitchen paper. Then, roll out the stretched dough.

3. Prick the bottom with a fork so that it does not rise.

4. Preheat the oven to 189 °C.

5. Take to cook for 15 minutes.

At the end you just have to let it cool a little.

For the filling

Now, while the base comes out, we can move forward with the filling.

6. It is time to cut the bacon into strips and take them to a frying pan to seal them.

The bacon tends to drop something greasy, so it is not necessary to add more. In addition, it should not be extremely cooked but golden on all sides.

7. Take advantage of mixing the milk cream and beaten eggs in a bowl.

8. Next, add the nutmeg and pepper.

9. If the bacon is ready, add it to the mixture and mix everything together.

This will result in a consistent dough.

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The Quiché Lorraine fresh out of the oven.

Assembling the Quiché Lorraine

With the ingredients ready, it's time for weapons to cook the Quiché Lorraine.

10. With the preheated oven, pour the filling into the precooked dough.

11. We set the oven to 200 °C, and we took the mold to cook our Quiché Lorraine. Allow about 25 minutes of cooking.

Over time, you will know that they are ready by doing the toothpick test.

12. When it's ready, take it out of the oven, wait for it to cool down a bit and enjoy!

You can taste this dish in many ways, but I recommend that you do it fresh out of the oven, since it has a better flavor that way.

Recommendations for a perfect Quiché Lorraine

  • To give a greater flavor you can add the white part of a watercress or an onion to the filling, both fried to give it a greater taste.

  • You can add ham, bacon, spinach or whatever food you can think of to create a unique dish.

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The Quiché Lorraine decorated with parsley.

With these details and the detailed step by step that we have given you, I am more than sure that you will be able to achieve a great result with this plate phrases.

Dare to create a unique recipe that adapts to your nutritional load and your eating habits. In addition, being very easy to prepare saves you a lot of time in the kitchen.

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