Here’s a recipe from my new cookbook, French Comfort Food: Recipes of Savoie and the French Alps. Buy it here on my site or on my French Comfort Food site: www.frenchcomfortfood.com .
This is a classic French recipe which I ‘Savoyardized’ with local products. But if you can’t find the Savoie ingredients where you are, I gave you alternatives.
Ingredients for 4 – 6 persons:
- 1 pastry shell, homemade or store bought, or made from a pie sheet from your grocery’s refrigeration or freezer sections
- 1 cup of Savoie lardons (as seen in the video) or 10 slices of cooked, crumbled bacon
- 1/3 cup minced onion
- 5 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups of light cream (or half n half)
- 1 cup of shredded Beaufort or Gruyere cheese
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon of smoked paprika or cayenne pepper
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
If you’re using bacon, cook it in a frying pan until fully cooked. Pat the grease off with paper towels, and once cooled, crumble it. If you’re using lardons, you will also need to fry it until cooked and drain off the grease.
In a mixing bowl, stir or whisk together the eggs, bacon, cheese, onion, cream, salt, sugar and paprika or pepper (all ingredients). Pour the mixture into the pastry shell.
Bake 30 to 40 minutes in the oven, until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes, slice and serve.
For conversions from U.S. measurements to the Metric System, see: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking
August 28th, 2010 at 8:43 am
hallo, im from france so my english knowledge is not that goodish. Please dont blame me. I read blogs to make my english better and i have to say that your blog was perfect readable for me, because the english is really clear-thinking and all the article are perfect readable. I will keep on reading it, to improve my english even more. Thanks a lot
August 29th, 2010 at 12:59 am
Hello and thanks for your comment. I’m glad you find the English easy to read. I keep my writing very basic intentionally so that people who speak English as a second language can still manage to read the short entries. I hope you will continue to find the blog interesting. Cynthia
October 9th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
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