The day had come to make the onion quiche, but turns out it’s called “Tarte a l’Oignon”. We also made Quiche Lorraine so this was a good opportunity to understand what’s the difference between the two terms (Quiche and Tarte). We had chef Sebastian back and we were almost on our own on this one. Almost no help or direction. The dough, we made two times before is the same dough of the apple tart just without all the amount of sugar. The onions we used similarly in the onions soup. So this is what we had:
More eggs, onions, cheese and butter
All the onions sliced and sweat in butter for about 30 minutes
The bacon was cut to lardons, boiled and braised to color
Spread in the bottom of the tart base
For the onion tart, a small amount, for the Lorraine, all the rest
Grated gruyere, most of it went to the quiche Lorraine and a bit to the onions
Important to have it as a buffer between the dough and the onions which are wet and could wet the dough, then it won't cook properly
Then we put the whole slices of onions on top of the cooked onions
My dough made into a tart base
Caramelized Onions
I made it dense!
Big onion circles on top
My quiche lorraine
This stage is the definator between quiche and tarte. It’s not if the tarte is covered or not, and not if it’s sweet or savory. Not an ingredient but a ratio of ingredients. We made an Appareil from eggs, yolks, cream, milk and seasoned with salt pepper and nutmeg. The amount of that mixture poured into the tarte base, defines if this is a quiche (a lot of mixture) or a tarte (a small amount of it). Where exactly does one ends and the other begins? The answer yet been found.
Taking our finished tartes and quiches to the oven, in a nice line. Chef Sebastian amused by his own creation, taking a pic on his iphone.
5 minutes before baking is over, we take off the rings and egg-wash the tart
Almost ready
Back to the oven for a few minutes
Ready!
Looks yummy!
We had to slice it so that chef will see our carving and the section, It's very hard to carve it straight out of the oven because it's still not set, but we had to anyway.
Top view of quiche Lorraine
Quiche Lorraine section
Onion tart section
Ready to take home for dinner
Got home safely!
We only had comments from the chef this time about the presentation and the carving. Chef said it looks very nice and I have to practice on my carving. When I got home the carving was so much easier. Tasting it made me realize we didn’t add enough salt to the dough. It was a bit flat because we used the sweet dough recipe with just a pinch of sugar and didn’t add more salt. Other than that, nothing like an onion tart.
קישים מדהימים – נראה לי שאני מאוד אוהב אותם רק עניין קטן של הבצק שאין לי ספק שאתגבר עליו
you know that i will always be glad to eat your crust… from your quiche or tart that is… 😉
That looks like my kind of class – i love quiches!