1,436 easy and fully explained recipes, with 66,216 photos and 78 videos

Quiche filling mixture

The basic mixture for filling quiches is made with seasoned eggs, cream and/or milk. It can be used in many kinds of savoury quiches and tarts, with different ingredients added (lardons, cheese, salmon, etc.).

70K 3.5/5 based on 24 reviews

Last modified on: April 17^th 2022

Keywords for this recipe:

For 1 kg 100 g, you will need:

1 4 egg yolks
2 4 Eggs
3 400 g liquid cream
4 400 g whole milk
5 4 pinches grated nutmeg (optional)
6 salt
7 pepper
Total weight: 1,080 grams

Change these quantities to make: 275 g 550 g 1 kg 100 g 1 kg 650 g

Change measures: Metric

Metric weight Metric volumes

How long will it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Start to finish
4 min.	4 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 min.

Put 4 egg yolks and 4 Eggs into a large bowl.

Stage 2 - 2 min.

Add 400 g liquid cream, 400 g whole milk, 4 pinches grated nutmeg, salt and pepper.

Whisk together until evenly mixed.

Stage 3

Your quiche filling mixture is ready for use.

Remarks

You can vary the proportions of cream to milk, adding more cream and less milk for a richer filling, or even all cream.

Keeping

1 or 2 days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,028 Kcal or 8,491 Kj	70 gr	31 gr	180 gr
101 %	27 %	3 %	27 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
188 Kcal or 787 Kj	7 gr	3 gr	17 gr
9 %	3 %	<1 %	3 %

% 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: Egg, Milk

How much will it cost?

For 1 kg 100 g : 2.83 €

Change currency:

Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

Some other recipes using this recipe

Filo leeks and cheese tart

This is a very quick tart recipe, where the crust is made by a stacking filo pastry sheets.
284K4.3 1 hour 14 min.

Thin endive tart

This thin tart (made with puff pastry) is a sort of quiche. It is fairly light, with smoked ham and endives fried from raw (not blanched first).
51K4.9 58 min.

bread-crust quiche

Use quiche filling mixture to transform a dry loaf into a spectacular bread-crust quiche. It can be enjoyed on its own or is ideal as an aperitif snack. The bread crust will crisp up when it is baked a second time, the perfect foil for the soft quiche filling.
20K4 58 min.

Quiche Lorraine

Quiche Lorraine is a recipe that is both simple and delicious. This savoury tart combines bacon and grated cheese with an egg and cream filling in a short-crust pastry case.
142K4.9 1 hour 5 min.

Deep leek and potato quiche

The French make a "tourte" that is smaller and deeper than a normal quiche. This recipe makes the most of this difference: it has plenty of texture and flavour, with bacon, potatoes, leeks, two different cheeses, and an egg and cream filling poured over.
62K 1 hour 36 min.

See all recipes that use it

This recipe uses (among others)

	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate sauce, Smoky potato and potimarron gratin, Ham pasta bake, Cauliflower and chickpea purée, French toast "cordon bleu", ... All
	Whole milk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Bourguignon potatoes , Gratin with Parmesan flavours, Chocolate rice pudding, Canadian rice pudding, Smoky potato and potimarron gratin, ... All
	Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Walnut short bread, Poppy seed and lemon cake, Oatmeal and apple cookies, Rabbit terrine, Tomato tatin, ... All
	Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pistachio confectioner's custard, Salmon chard rolls, Clementine confectioner's custard, Crème brulée, Lime confectioner's custard (pastry cream), ... All

Other recipes you may also like

Creamy risotto with diced vegetables and flax seeds

Risotto is one of the great Italian recipes. It's the special way in which rice is cooked and mixed with several other things, which produces this famous dish. One can make different flavour risottos, here is a fairly simple recipe with diced vegetables and flax seeds.
249K 14.2 1 hour 49 min. February 21^th 2011

Blanquette of veal

Blanquette is a classic dish of French family cooking, but can also be found in bistros. Veal is cooked slowly, and the sauce is thickened with a mixture of egg yolks and cream. I have set out a rather special way of making it.
408K4.4 2 hours 49 min. February 5^th 2015

Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.