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.
65 K 3.6/5 (8 reviews)
1 hour 40 min.
Easy
1 quiche
13 IngredientsLast modified on: April 17th 2022
For 1 quiche, you will need:
- 1
1 cup puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) - 2
1 1⁄3 cup mussels - 3
½ cup dry white wine - 4
1 sprig parsley - 5
1 cup fresh tuna - 6
1 cup Fish - 7
1 1⁄3 cup cooked prawns - 8
2⁄3 cup spring onion (scallion) - 9
4 tablespoons olive oil - 10 ½ cup dry white wine
- 11
teaspoon quiche filling mixture - 12
salt - 13
pepper
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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 55 min.
Cooking: 50 min.
All in all: 1 hour 40 min.
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Roll out 1 cup 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 1 1⁄3 cup mussels in ½ cup 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.
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 cup fresh tuna into large dice.
Set aside.
Set aside.
Stage 5 - 5 min.
Cut 1 cup Fish – ccoley (Pollock) here – into large dice.
Set aside.
Set aside.
Stage 6 - 10 min.
Shell the 1 1⁄3 cup cooked prawns.
Set aside.
Set aside.
Stage 7 - 4 min.
Prepare and finely chop 2⁄3 cup 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.
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 ½ cup dry white wine, then leave to reduce until the liquid has almost completely evaporated.
Leave to cool.
Add the mussels and ½ 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
| Proteins (gr) | Carbohydrates (gr) | Fats (gr) | Energy value (in k-calories) | Energy value (in k-joules) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whole recipe | 500 RDI=190 % | 1,030 RDI=100 % | 1,400 RDI=210 % | 3,780 RDI=190 % | 15,810 RDI: 190 % |
| Per 100 g | 20 RDI=9 % | 50 RDI=5 % | 70 RDI=10 % | 180 RDI=9 % | 740 RDI: 9 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 1 quiche : 11.70 €
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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: Quiche Lorraine, Cabbage and cheddar quiche, Deep leek and potato quiche, Maroilles cheese quiche, Filo leeks and cheese tart, ... See them all 11
Mussels
Like these other recipes: Normandy seafood stew, Curried mussels with cabbage, Paella, Mussels with arroz negro, Paimpol salad, ... See them all 10
Cooked prawns
Like these other recipes: Potatoes with prawns, Seafood rice salad, Scandinavian cocktail, Surprise eggs, Normandy seafood stew, ... See them all 6
Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Langoustine and leek tarts, Saint Honoré cake, Thin summer tart "à la grecque", Crusty pistachio, almond and apricot flan, Smoked salmon sacristains, ... See them all 71
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