Quiche Lorraine
photo by I'mPat
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 1 pie crust (store-bought or handmade)
- 1⁄2 lb bacon
- 1⁄3 lb ham slices
- 1⁄2 lb gruyere cheese, grated
- 4 eggs
- 14 ounces heavy cream
- 2 pinches paprika
- salt and pepper
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Place the pie crust in a large tart pan. You may have to roll out a store-bought crust to fit. Place it in the refrigerator.
- Cut up the bacon into small pieces. In saucepan, boil the bacon for 1 minute and remove it. In a frying pan, fry the bacon for 5 minutes. Place the bacon bits on a paper towl.
- In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs with the cream, paprika, salt and pepper. Add the bacon and ham.
- Put the egg mixture into the tart pan. Cover with the cheese.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- Eat at room-temperature or cold.
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Reviews
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I love this receipe!! I've tried many different receipes trying to find one that will turn out a rich and silky quiche that will resemble the ones from Paris. The secret is the cream! It's a really simple and easy to follow receipe, (I made it with my daughter), especially if you buy a ready made crust like the ones in Trader Joe's. I only had bacon on hand and just gently fried it with some onion and it turned out amazing. My family thought I had bought it since it didn't taste like my usual ones. I will experiment with different ingredients but following this master receipe.
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For dietary reasons I did have to lower the fat a little and only used 5oz thickened cream and 5oz of hi-low milk with the 4 eggs and used cheddar cheese and at the DH's request used 2 handfuls of baby spinach which I finely shredded and well I eyeballed the rest of ingredients using a very lean bacon which I diced and fried in a little oil and some smoky ham of the bone from our Christmas ham all in all with some left over salad from boxing day proved a great meal and even the DH who normally cringes when being served quiche thought this was good, thank you melin44, made for Bargain Basement tag game.