Quiche Bretonne
This quiche from Brittany has a puff-pastry base topped with an assortment of fish and shellfish with a classic quiche filling.
After baking in a hot oven, the crusty pastry is a great foil for the moist filling with all its seafood flavours.
After baking in a hot oven, the crusty pastry is a great foil for the moist filling with all its seafood flavours.
54K 8 3.6
Last modified on: April 17th 2022
Keywords for this recipe:For 2 quiches, you will need:
- 1
2 cups + 2 tablespoons Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) - 2
2 2⁄3 cups mussels - 3
1 cup dry white wine - 4
2 sprigs parsley - 5
1 ¾ cup fresh tuna - 6
1 ¾ cup fish - 7
2 2⁄3 cups cooked prawns - 8
1 cup spring onion (scallion) - 9
8 tablespoons olive oil - 10 1 cup dry white wine
- 11
teaspoon Quiche filling mixture - 12
salt - 13
pepper
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 51 min. | 49 min. | 1 hour 40 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Roll out 2 cups + 2 tablespoons Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) (if not ready-rolled), line the tart tin or mould and prick all over the bottom.
Set aside in the fridge.
Set aside in the fridge.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Cook 2 2⁄3 cups mussels in 1 cup dry white wine with 2 sprigs parsley.
Stop cooking as soon as the mussels have opened.
Note: You can also use left-over mussels marinière.
Stop cooking as soon as the mussels have opened.
Note: You can also use left-over mussels marinière.
Stage 3 - 10 min.
Shell the mussels and set aside.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
Cut 1 ¾ cup fresh tuna into large dice.
Set aside.
Set aside.
Stage 5 - 5 min.
Cut 1 ¾ cup fish – ccoley (Pollock) here – into large dice.
Set aside.
Set aside.
Stage 6 - 10 min.
Shell the 2 2⁄3 cups cooked prawns.
Set aside.
Set aside.
Stage 7 - 4 min.
Prepare and finely chop 1 cup spring onion (scallion).
Stage 8 - 2 min.
Pour 8 tablespoons olive oil into a large sauté pan on high heat.
When the oil is good and hot, add the onion, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute without colouring.
When the oil is good and hot, add the onion, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute without colouring.
Stage 9 - 7 min.
Add the diced fish and prawns, and brown for 1 or 2 minutes.
Add the mussels and 1 cup dry white wine, then leave to reduce until the liquid has almost completely evaporated.
Leave to cool.
Add the mussels and 1 cup dry white wine, then leave to reduce until the liquid has almost completely evaporated.
Leave to cool.
Stage 10 - 4 min.
Prepare teaspoon Quiche filling mixture.
Stage 11 - 1 min.
Spread the pieces of fish, mussels and prawns in the the pastry case.
Stage 12 - 2 min.
Pour the quiche mixture over the top.
Stage 13 - 40 min.
Bake low in the oven for about 40 minutes, checking the colour towards the end.
Can be eaten warm or cold.
Can be eaten warm or cold.
Remarks
You can vary this recipe to suit your own tastes or the time of year. Do try to use fish that's in season, as it is often cheaper. This is a good opportunity to use cheaper varieties.
Keeping
Several hours in the fridge. After this, it will still be good, but less crisp.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 4,065 Kcal or 17,019 Kj | 493 gr | 243 gr | 515 gr |
| 203 % | 190 % | 23 % | 78 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 95 Kcal or 398 Kj | 12 gr | 6 gr | 12 gr |
| 5 % | 4 % | 1 % | 2 % |
| Per quiche | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 2,033 Kcal or 8,512 Kj | 247 gr | 121 gr | 258 gr |
| 102 % | 95 % | 11 % | 39 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 2 quiches : 23.39 €
- Per quiche : 11.70 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Quiche filling mixture: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Salmon and spinach quiche, Two-cheese quiche, Thin endive tart, Quiche Lorraine, bread-crust quiche, ... All |
 | Cooked prawns: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Potatoes with prawns, Normandy seafood stew, Surprise eggs, Seafood rice salad, Scandinavian cocktail, ... All |
 | Mussels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Mussels with beurre d'escargot, Spaghetti with mussels and basil, Mussels with arroz negro, Paella, Curried mussels with cabbage, ... All |
 | Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Small cheese and bacon rolls , Pecan fruit rolls , Quick flaky pizza, Strawberry feuilleté, Vegetable pie, ... All |
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