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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 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
11 500 g Quiche filling mixture
12 salt
13 pepper
Total weight: 2,130 grams

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51 min.	49 min.	1 hour 40 min.

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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.

Prepare 500 g 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.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,033 Kcal or 8,512 Kj	247 gr	121 gr	258 gr
102 %	95 %	11 %	39 %

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 %

% 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).

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

How much will it cost?

For 1 quiche : 11.69 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Quiche filling mixture: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: bread-crust quiche, Quiche Lorraine, Two-cheese quiche, Deep leek and potato quiche, Filo leeks and cheese tart, ... All
	Mussels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Mussels with beurre d'escargot, Paimpol salad, Breton style shellfish and vegetable soup, Mussels marinière, Spaghetti with mussels and basil, ... All
	Cooked prawns: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Seafood rice salad, Surprise eggs, Potatoes with prawns, Normandy seafood stew, Scandinavian cocktail, ... All
	Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crusty cockle tart, Langoustine and leek tarts, Mushroom tart, Little caramelized peach tarts, Shallot confit tart, ... All

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