Quiche ideas recipes and questions (including mini quiche)

champys

My French neighbour - she's actually from Lorraine! - adds a small dessert spoon of cornflour to her quiche mixture. To 'stabilise' the eggs I guess, just like you would do with custard. You probably get away with using less eggs in that case too (very MS!). She never bothers baking the pastry blind, either.
Recently I made a carrot-quiche for another neighbour who is lactose intolerant, and managed without any milk or cream at all: I blended the (cooked) carrots with a little of their cooking liquid before adding the eggs, and it worked a treat.

Bella79

Hi all ive got bacon eggs and cheese in fridge that need using thinking of making a quiche how do i do it ??
ive got flour in and butter no lard though do i need this for pastry ??
thankyou
lisa x

Pink.

Hi owens,

Yes you can make shortcrust pastry without lard although some people say it's not quite as good. You'll need to blind bake the pastry first then add the mix for your filling.

The be-ro website has a good basic quiche recipe

For lots more quiche ideas have a look at this thread:

Quiche ideas

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

MATH

If the two options that pink-winged has posted are no good, why not try one of the [SIZE=-1]342,000 different quiche recipes that Google will spit out if you type "quiche recipe" into the search box?;):D[/SIZE]

greyteam1959

Forget Googles 342000 options make an omlette !!!!!!!!!

LilMissEmmylou

you can make quiche without a crust its yummy and less time consuming - just make sure u grease the dish well

Sarahsaver

One hint is not to call it a quiche.

i KNOW my hubby would go 'YEUCK' at a quiche but would eat something called a flan or a tart. something about real men not eating quiche

growingafamily

I use the Bero pastry recipe too, no blind baking but I do sprinkle it with a bit of semolina and that keeps the pastry from being soggy (thanks to my mum for that idea) - just put pastry in, fill with our usual, bacon bits, mushroom, leeks, cheese then top up with eggy mixture and bake - gorgeous !!
Must make some of those this week

lindadykes

A lovely summery recipe for quiche is tomato and mushroom :-
Take some fresh tomatoes (about 1LB?) and skin them then chop them into dice. Peel and dice a medium onion, and slice about 8oz button mushrooms. Heat a smidgen of olive oil in a pan and add the onion, give it a stir for about a minute then add the tomatoes and mushrooms( you can add dried herbs at this point, if you want to add fresh herbs I'd add them at the end of cooking the tomatoes and mushrooms). Simmer for about 3 minutes when it should have formed a thick mush, (sorry can't think of a better description). Season and add to the prepared quiche shell. Beat together 2-3 eggs and top the tomato mushroom with the egg. Bake as usual.

lightisfading

Does anybody have a recipe/basic guidelines to make a *firm* quiche, please? My mum used to make this when we were little but has lost the recipe (and she can't cook without! ). I've never made one myself but am craving it lately, and have looooads of eggs to use up. I hate the texture of store bought ones (sloppy eggs bllleurgh) so needs to be firmer than usual. Anyone?

Oh and can I use half fat cheddar in it or would it have to be full fat?