Quiche lorraine Recipe: Food Combining Protein

Protein

Flans and Quiches are easily prepared without pastry. Originally, the pastry was not intended to be eaten, serving merely as a clean and waterproof container for the ingredients while they cooked.
serves 4
6 sliced bacon rashers
2 chopped onions
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 oz / 75 g grated Cheddar cheese
2 large eggs
1/4 pint / 150 ml milk
3 tomatoes, sliced
salt and pepper to taste


-o- Use an ovenware flan dish. Sprinkle half the cheese on the bottom of the flan dish.
-o- Fry bacon and onion together until just cooked and spread over the cheese.
-o- Beat together the eggs, milk and seasoning, pour over the mixture and then sprinkle the rest of the cheese over. Lay the sliced tomatoes on top.
-o- Bake at Gas Mark 5, 375F, 200C, for 30 minutes until set.
Variations

-o- For a richer mixture, mix cream with the milk or use evaporated milk in place of milk or milk and cream
-o- For a wide range of different fillings replace the cheese, onion and bacon:
-o- Mushroom quiche: 6 oz / 150 g mushrooms, sliced - no need to fry first
-o- Herb quiche: 2 tablespoons mixed fresh herbs, chopped - marjoram, basil, thyme etc
-o- Prawn and onion: 6 spring onions, trimmed and chopped, 6 oz / 150 g peeled prawns
-o- Ham and sweetcorn: 6 sliced bacon rashers, fried and 8 oz / 200 g sweetcorn, cooked
-o- Salmon: 8 oz can salmon or flaked fresh cooked salmon
-o- Tuna and cheese: 8 oz can tuna and 2 oz cheese - sprinkle over the top after adding the egg mixture
-o- Spanish quiche: Cooked peas, sweetcorn, sliced red and green peppers, tomatoes.