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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 2 quiches, you will need:

1 1 lb + 1.6 oz Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
2 1 lb + 5.1 oz mussels
3 0 litre 7 ml dry white wine
4 2 sprigs parsley
5 0 kg 14 g fresh tuna
6 0 kg 14 g Fish
7 1 lb + 5.1 oz cooked prawns
8 0 kg 8 g spring onion (scallion)
9 8 tablespoons olive oil
10 200 ml dry white wine
11 Quiche filling mixture
12 salt
13 pepper

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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 1 lb + 1.6 oz 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 1 lb + 5.1 oz mussels in 0 litre 7 ml dry white wine with 2 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 0 kg 14 g fresh tuna into large dice.

Set aside.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Cut 0 kg 14 g Fish – ccoley (Pollock) here – into large dice.

Set aside.

Stage 6 - 10 min.

Shell the 1 lb + 5.1 oz cooked prawns.

Set aside.

Stage 7 - 4 min.

Prepare and finely chop 0 kg 8 g spring onion (scallion).

Stage 8 - 2 min.

Pour 8 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 200 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
7,538 Kcal or 31,560 Kj	1,003 gr	2,048 gr	2,795 gr
377 %	386 %	193 %	423 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
186 Kcal or 779 Kj	25 gr	50 gr	69 gr
9 %	10 %	5 %	10 %

Per quiche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,769 Kcal or 15,780 Kj	502 gr	1,024 gr	1,398 gr
188 %	193 %	97 %	212 %

% 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, Shellfish, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 2 quiches : 21.99 €
Per quiche : 11.00 €

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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: Quiche Lorraine, Maroilles cheese quiche, Deep leek and potato quiche, Leek and fresh tuna tart, Salmon and spinach quiche, ... All
	Mussels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Normandy seafood stew, Paimpol salad, Fillets of sole Dieppoise, Mussels with beurre d'escargot, Paella, ... All
	Cooked prawns: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Normandy seafood stew, Potatoes with prawns, Seafood rice salad, Avocado with Sautéed Prawns , Surprise eggs, ... All
	Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tomato tart, Tart Tatin, Mushroom tart, Tomato feuilleté with pesto, Thin tomato jelly and avocado tart, ... All

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