French Quiche Lorraine Recipe | Masalaherb.com (2024)

French Quiché Lorraine Recipe is a classic Quiché from my childhood.

My Mama and grandmother always prepared this gorgeous Quiché for lunch or dinner with a little salad.

Learn how to make an easy French Quiché Lorraine from scratch with the dough and crust as well with our family recipe from the Lorraine.

Classic Quiché Lorraine is part of our French heritage.

Commonly prepared in all French homes, Quiché makes a filling meal for the whole family.

Our Quiché Lorraine is an authentic recipe and I think absolutely the best Quiché Lorraine recipe out there.

📕 What is Quiché Lorraine?

Quiché (pronounced as Keesh in English) are savory open-faced French shortcrust pies, filled and baked with an egg cream (omelette/frittata kind of) mixture.

Occasionally, you have dishes, such as theOnion Tart, which are a kind of Quiché but are known as savory tarts locally. Those are prepared nearly the same way as a conventional Quiché.

The Quiché Lorraine Recipe is the mother of all Quiché, most modern Quiché recipes are often based on this French classic.

🧅 Ingredients

A traditional classic Quiché Lorraine always consists of a pastry, so-called simple shortcrust pastry, and a filling prepared with egg and cream.

These are the following ingredients you will need to make an irresistible easy Quiché Lorraine from scratch.

For the Shortcrust Pie Crust:

• Butter
• All-Purpose Flour
• Salt
• Water

For the Custard Filling:

• Egg
• Milk
• All-Purpose Flour
• Ham or smoked pork belly lard or thick cut bacon
• Cheese
• Black Pepper
• Nutmeg
• fresh Chives to garnish

Ingredients added or removed doesn't make this a Quiché Lorraine but another Quiché variety.

For example, if you add spinach you will have a Quiché Florentine.

If you remove the ham, it won't be a Quiché.

Something like a vegan/vegetarian Quiché Lorraine actually doesn't exist. You would just call it a Quiché by itself because a Quiché Lorraine includes ham/lard.

🥬 Other Quiché varieties:

• Provençal – with Tomatoes
• au fromage - with Cheese only
• au champignion - with Mushrooms
• au saumon - with salmon

… and the sacrilege Quiché variations (the ones which shouldn't be, but they are because people love these quiches)

• au thon - with Tuna
• auasperge - with Asparagus

🔪 How to make it?

Here is a quick overview showing how this recipe comes together. The full recipe can be found further below in the recipe card.

Step 1

Prepare shortcrust pastry. Mix into a smooth dough, which can be rolled out and molded later on. It shouldn't stick.

Wrap into plastic wrap and leave to rest in the fridge for minimum 30 mins.

Step 2

Roll out pastry dough and cut out.

Step 3

Place dough into your buttered tart pan. It should fit to the border. Poke into the dough a few times, and you can place in some pie weights or dried beans so that the pastry won't bulge during the baking period.

Then prebake (called blind baking) the pie crust for about 8 minutes. If you are rushing, skip that and pour filling and then bake.

Step 4

Combine and whisk together all the custard filling ingredients.

Step 5

Pour filling into prebaked pie crust in the mold. Sprinkle grated cheese over that.

Bake for about 25 minutes until done. If you didn't prebake, add 8 minutes more to your baking.

🍴 Serving

We always serve a French Quiché Lorraine with some kind of salad.

Because the Quiché Lorraine is a typical summer meal, we tend to harvest green beans and various salads from the garden.

That means light salads are served with Quiché Lorraine.

You can serve any of the following salads with this easy Quiché Lorraine recipe:

• Simple green salad (lettuce, iceberg, rocket, romaine) or sliced fresh tomato with a French mustard vinaigrette or herbal dressing
• Radish Broccoli Salad
• Radish Salad
• french/green bean salad with vinaigrette
• tuna asparagus salad
• Carrot Salad
• Coleslaw
• Beet Salad

Or serve with a light vegetable side dish such as roasted carrots, green beans with a dollop of melted butter.

🧀 What Cheese for Quiché Lorraine?

The authentic Quiché Lorraine recipe doesn't include any cheese; however, most people make it with cheese all over France.

A ham Quiché Lorraine with cheese just tastes all the better because the cheese makes a crust over the Quiché, but of course, again to clarify it, the real Quiché Lorraine is without cheese.

Pick a milder/semi-sharp tasting cheese that melts well with a normal fat amount.

You can use one of the following cheese variations:

• Emmental
• Comté
• Gruyère(mild version)
• Cheddar (mild version)

💭 FAQs

• Tart/Quiche Pan in Porcelain. You can directly serve the Quiché in that as seen in the pictures.
• Silicon Pastry Baking Mat comes with the diameters to cut the shape
• Stand Mixer if you want to avoid making the dough manually

🍳 More Egg-base Meal Ideas:

• One-Pan Sautéed Egg and Zucchini
• Egg and Potato Skillet
• Egg and Potato Casserole

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