🍲 Simple Tarragon Quiche

French · 8 ingredients · 5 steps

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A quiche is a baked, unsweetened custard pie, often made with savory fillings. Originally served in Germany, quiche was adopted by neighboring France and is now considered a traditional French dish. The French (and now English) word quiche comes from a dialectal form (Küchle) of the German word for cake (Kuchen). Quiche became popular in Britain after World War II and in the United States during the 1960s and 70s.

Simple Tarragon Quiche
Simple Tarragon Quiche — photograph by unattributed, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia.
75 minutesserves 62
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Ingredients

  • 5 eggs
  • 1 ⅓ cup (320 ml) cream (approximately 30% fat)
  • 1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon
  • 1 dash ground nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground pepper
  • 1 prepared frozen pie crust
  • ¾ cup (180 ml) freshly-grated Swiss cheese

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
  2. Place the eggs, cream, tarragon, nutmeg, salt, and pepper in a blender; blend as briefly as possible until they form a homogeneous mixture.
  3. In the pie crust, create alternating layers of the shredded cheese and the mixture from the blender until the crust is full.
  4. Bake the quiche for 35–40 minutes; a toothpick or fork inserted into its middle should come out "clean".
  5. Remove the quiche from the oven, and let it cool for at least 20 minutes before serving.
Where this came from. Adapted from Simple Tarragon Quiche in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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