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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.

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Last modified on: April 17^th 2022

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For 3 quiches, you will need:

1 750 ml Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
2 900 ml mussels
3 300 ml dry white wine
4 3 sprigs parsley
5 600 ml fresh tuna
6 600 ml fish
7 900 ml cooked prawns
8 360 ml spring onion (scallion)
9 12 tablespoons olive oil
10 300 ml dry white wine
11 Quiche filling mixture
12 salt
13 pepper

Change these quantities to make: 1 quiche 2 quiches 3 quiches

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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 750 ml 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.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Cook 900 ml mussels in 300 ml dry white wine with 3 sprigs parsley.

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 600 ml fresh tuna into large dice.

Set aside.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Cut 600 ml fish – ccoley (Pollock) here – into large dice.

Set aside.

Stage 6 - 10 min.

Shell the 900 ml cooked prawns.

Set aside.

Stage 7 - 4 min.

Prepare and finely chop 360 ml spring onion (scallion).

Stage 8 - 2 min.

Pour 12 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.

Stage 9 - 7 min.

Add the diced fish and prawns, and brown for 1 or 2 minutes.

Add the mussels and 300 ml dry white wine, then leave to reduce until the liquid has almost completely evaporated.

Leave to cool.

Stage 10 - 4 min.

Prepare 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.

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
6,098 Kcal or 25,531 Kj	740 gr	364 gr	773 gr
226 %	211 %	25 %	87 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
95 Kcal or 398 Kj	12 gr	6 gr	12 gr
4 %	3 %	<1 %	1 %

Per quiche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,033 Kcal or 8,512 Kj	247 gr	121 gr	258 gr
75 %	70 %	8 %	29 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2700 k-calories or 11300 k-joules by day for a man (change to a woman).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Sulfites, Mollusc, Fish, Shellfish, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 3 quiches : 35.08 €
Per quiche : 11.69 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Quiche filling mixture: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Filo leeks and cheese tart, Two-cheese quiche, Maroilles cheese quiche, Leek and fresh tuna tart, Salmon and spinach quiche, ... All
	Cooked prawns: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Surprise eggs, Potatoes with prawns, Scandinavian cocktail, Seafood rice salad, Normandy seafood stew, ... All
	Mussels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Paella, Breton style shellfish and vegetable soup, Curried mussels with cabbage, Normandy seafood stew, Mussels with arroz negro, ... All
	Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little apple turnovers with almonds and raisins, Smoked salmon sacristains, Millefeuille, Little caramelized peach tarts, Peach and verbena feuilleté, ... All

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