Name: Quiche au Roquefort, brocolis et oignon (Roquefort, Broccoli & Onion Quiche)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: Serve 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 onion, finely chopped; 210 ml/7½ fl oz/1 cup double cream; 2 eggs; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 100 g/3½ oz Roquefort cheese or other blue cheese of choice, crumbled; salad, to serve; ¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg; 15 g/½ oz butter, plus extra for greasing; 250 g/9 oz Savoury Short Pastry or ready-made shortcrust pastry; plain flour, for dusting; 175 g/6 oz broccoli, cut into small florets; 2 tbsp olive oil

Preparation info

Serve
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

French Brasserie Cookbook

By Daniel Galmiche

Published 2011

About

Rich, spicy, blue-veined Roquefort is thought to be one of the greatest blue cheeses in the world, and the people of Roquefort protect it fiercely. They have been making it for thousands of years, since the time of ancient Rome, in fact. It proved so popular that imitations of it started to spring up all over the place until, in the 1960s, the Tribunal de Grande Instance decreed that, although similar cheeses could be made in many regions of France, it was only a true Roquefort if it