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Leek Quiche

June 26, 2020 | Updated September 7, 2023 | Laura

✽ Recipe from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. I | Julia Child ✽

Julia Child Recipe 121 | 407 recipes to go!

✽ Leek Quiche [Flamiche- Quiche aux Poireaux], p. 151

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✽ Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. I was written by Julia Child who co-authored with Simone Beck & Louisette Bertholle and was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961.

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✽ Butter Count: +16 TB

✽ Cost: $7.48 [~$1.50 per serving]

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That means only two more to go until I can move on to gratins! I’ve been so excited about what Chapter Four (Entrées and Luncheon Dishes) has in store. However, these quiches at the beginning have been slowing me way down since it seems as if I never have enough motivation to make them.

As for this leek quiche, it was good but nothing super special. It really was not that much different than the previous Onion Quiche and Onion Tart. These quiches are all starting to run together now.

Good news is that I have 100% confidence to walk into the kitchen and whip up a quick quiche without using a recipe.

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✽ Step 1: Cook Leeks

I won’t spend a lot of time going on about this one as you have probably gathered by now that it is pretty much the same as the previous ones.

The white part of the leeks (I had to use some of the green part in order to have enough) are boiled with a little bit of water, salt, and butter until the moisture has evaporated. The heat is then lowered and the leeks are stewed for about thirty minutes until tender.

✽ Step 2: Beat Eggs & Cream

Eggs, cream, nutmeg, and pepper are beaten together. The warm leeks are slowly beaten into the mixture, and it is all poured into a partially baked pastry shell.

✽ Step 3: Bake Quiche

It’s covered with Swiss cheese and dots of butter, and baked at for about thirty minutes until puffed and browned.

That’s all there is to it! As a lunch, this makes for a fine meal. If you have a pound of leeks wasting away in your fridge then I suppose this would be a great recipe.

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Category: Julia Child, Entrees and Luncheon Dishes Cuisine: French
Keywords: julia child quiche recipes, julia child leek quiche, french quiche

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More Quiche Recipes:

✽ Quiche aux Fruits de Mer (a quiche filled with seafood)
✽ Roquefort Cheese Quiche (a very delicious and flavorful quiche recipe)
✽ Quiche Lorraine (the classic quiche made with cream and bacon)
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✽ You can find this recipe and all the other Julia Child recipes I make in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I (affiliate link). Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. I was written by Julia Child who co-authored with Simone Beck & Louisette Bertholle and was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961.

✽ Check out my Julia Child Recipe Checklist to see a list of all my completed and pending recipes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking!

Bon appétit!

June 26, 2020 by Laura Ehlers

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