Breakfast · Eggs & omelettes

Quiche lorraine

Name: Quiche lorraine
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1 sheet pie crust, in a 23 cm (9-inch) tin; 8 slices bacon, crisped, chopped; 1/2 yellow onions, sliced thin, softened; 4 egg; 3/4 cup heavy cream; 1/2 cup whole milk; 1 cup Swiss cheese, grated; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper; a scrape nutmeg

The brunch tart that never went out of style: bacon and cheese in a savoury egg custard inside a crisp pastry shell. Better at room temperature than hot.

Time: 70 min (20 prep + 50 cook)
Servings: 8
Per serving: 408 kcal
Protein: 16 g

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Ingredients

1 sheet pie crust, in a 23 cm (9-inch) tin230 g
8 slices bacon, crisped, chopped120 g
1/2 yellow onions, sliced thin, softened100 g
4 egg200 g
3/4 cup heavy cream180 g
1/2 cup whole milk120 g
1 cup Swiss cheese, grated120 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g
1/2 tsp black pepper1 g
a scrape nutmeg1 g

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Steps

Blind-bake the crust: lined with paper and weights, 190°C for 15 minutes, then 5 more uncovered. Skip this and the bottom is raw.
Scatter the bacon, onion and cheese over the base.
Whisk the eggs, cream, milk and seasonings and pour over — the custard should reach just below the rim.
Bake at 175°C for 30–35 minutes until set with a faint wobble at the centre. Cool 20 minutes before cutting.

Alternative

Crustless quicheno pastry, vegetables instead54

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

16% of kcal

53% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 3266 kcal goes into the pot, 1075 g of ingredients comes out as ~1150 g of food → 284 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 284
Protein: (16%); 11 g
Fat: (65%); 21 g
Carbohydrates: (19%); 14 g
of which sugar: 3 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 436 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.