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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: August 5^th 2018

For 1 quiche, you will need:

1 250 g Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
2 300 g mussels
3 100 ml dry white wine
4 1 sprig parsley
5 200 g fresh tuna
6 200 g fish
7 300 g cooked prawns
8 120 g spring onion (scallion)
9 4 tablespoons olive oil
10 100 ml dry white wine
11 250 ml liquid cream
12 2 eggs
13 2 egg yolks
14 salt
15 pepper
Total weight: 2,020 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
51 min.	49 min.	1 hour 40 min.

Keeping: Several hours in the fridge. After this, it will still be good, but less crisp.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Roll out 250 g 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 300 g mussels in 100 ml dry white wine with 1 sprig 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 200 g fresh tuna into large dice.

Set aside.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Cut 200 g fish – ccoley (Pollock) here – into large dice.

Set aside.

Stage 6 - 10 min.

Shell the 300 g cooked prawns.

Set aside.

Stage 7 - 4 min.

Prepare and finely chop 120 g spring onion (scallion).

Stage 8 - 2 min.

Pour 4 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 100 ml dry white wine, then leave to reduce until the liquid has almost completely evaporated.

Leave to cool.

Stage 10 - 4 min.

The quiche filling mixture

Preheat the ocen to 390°F (200°C).Put into a bowl: 250 ml liquid cream, 2 eggs, 2 egg yolks, salt and pepper.

Whisk together until evenly mixed.

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.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,868 Kcal or 16,195 Kj	242 gr	117 gr	271 gr
193 %	93 %	11 %	41 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
191 Kcal or 800 Kj	12 gr	6 gr	13 gr
10 %	5 %	1 %	2 %

Per quiche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,868 Kcal or 16,195 Kj	242 gr	117 gr	271 gr
193 %	93 %	11 %	41 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 quiche : 11.79 €

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Source

Home made.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Mussels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Mussels marinière, Paimpol salad, Curried mussels with cabbage, Normandy seafood stew, Spaghetti with mussels and basil, ... All
	Cooked prawns: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Avocado with Sautéed Prawns , Surprise eggs, Normandy seafood stew, Scandinavian cocktail, Potatoes with prawns, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Creamy plum and pear clafoutis, Little vanilla, clementine and chestnut verrines, Eton mess, Crusty cockle tart, Household cake (Gâteau de ménage), ... All
	Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rustic chicken and mushroom pie, Tomato feuilleté with pesto, Olive twists, Tomato tart, Apple Strudel, ... All

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