Chicken and mushroom quiche: a real French recipe

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

Quiche is a mixture of pie, casserole and soufflé, captivating with its taste and ease of preparation. One bite is enough to fall in love with this French dish.

Kish (from the French quiche - pie) is a French cuisine dish invented in Germany. Thrifty and resourceful German bakers did not want to throw away dough leftovers when making bread and began to use them as a base for a cake. Everything that came to hand went into the filling.

The sophisticated French changed the ingredients, made the dough more crumbly and the filling more fluffy.

Now this hot appetizer is known and loved outside of its native countries. And there are a lot of dish options. Life hacker prepared the most popular and affordable one - quiche with chicken and mushrooms.

Ingredients

For the test

• 250 g flour;
• 150 g butter;
• 1 chicken egg;
• a pinch of salt.

For filling

• 300 g chicken fillet;
• 300 g champignons;
• 1 onion;
• a pinch of salt.

For filling

• 200 ml low-fat cream;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 100 g of cheese;
• greens.

Preparation

First, prepare the dough. Mix the sifted flour with salt. Chop the frozen butter into pieces and add to the dry mixture.

Grind everything into crumbs. Add the egg and knead the dough.

Put the finished dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. At this time, do the stuffing.

Wash the chicken fillet, separate from excess fat and cut into small pieces.

Place in a saucepan, cover with water and cook.

Chop the onion finely. Fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown.

Wash the champignons, cut into small plates and send to the pan with the onion. After 7-10 minutes add the chicken to the vegetables. Mix the filling and turn off the heat.

Roll out the finished dough and place in a baking dish. Use a fork to make holes all over the surface.

Place the baking sheet with the dough in an oven preheated to 200 ° C. Bake for 10 minutes.

At this time, start preparing the fill. In a deep bowl, combine the cream and egg. Beat with a whisk or fork.

Finely chop the greens. Grate the cheese.

Remove the dough from the oven. Lay out the filling and add the fill.

Sprinkle with cheese and herbs on top.

Bake for 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 230 ° C.

Serve the quiche warm.