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  • Serves 6
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 14 Ingredients
April 24, 2023

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Here’s a recipe that’s fit for a King – literally! The Royal Family has shared a recipe in celebration of the King’s up coming coronation, so we can all join in with a Coronation Lunch of our own.

As part of the celebrations, The King and The Queen Consort are encouraging people across the UK and the world to get involved in The Coronation Big Lunch. It aims at bringing community and neighbours together to share friendship and food – including quiche!

The Coronation Quiche is described as, ‘a deep quiche with a crisp, light pastry case and delicate flavours of Spinach, Broad Beans and fresh Tarragon’.

Perfect for eating hot with boiled potatoes or cold with a green salad. Make it in a 20cm flan tin to get that perfect deep dish finish!

In the recipe below, use the first five ingredients to make your own pastry, otherwise just use store bought.

Make sure you also check out the Royal Traditional Christmas Pudding Recipe.


Ingredients (serves 6)

  • 125g plain flour
  • Pinch of salt
  • 25g cold butter, diced
  • 25g lard
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • OR 250g block ready-made shortcrust pastry
  • 125ml milk
  • 175ml double cream
  • 2 medium eggs
  • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
  • Salt and pepper
  • 100g grated cheddar cheese
  • 180g cooked spinach, lightly chopped
  • 60g cooked broad beans or soya beans

Method

  1. To make the pastry… 1. Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl; add the fats and rub the mixture together using your finger tips until you get a sandy, breadcrumb like texture. 2. Add the milk a little at a time and bring the ingredients together into a dough. 3. Cover and allow to rest in the fridge for 30-45 minutes
  2. Lightly flour the work surface and roll out the pastry to a circle a little larger than the top of the tin and approximately 5mm thick.
  3. Line the tin with the pastry, taking care not to have any holes or the mixture could leak. Cover and rest for a further 30 minutes in the fridge.
  4. Preheat the oven to 190°C.
  5. Line the pastry case with greaseproof paper, add baking beans and bake blind for 15 minutes, before removing the greaseproof paper and baking beans.
  6. Reduce the oven temperature to 160°C.
  7. Beat together the milk, cream, eggs, herbs and seasoning.
  8. Scatter 1/2 of the grated cheese in the blind-baked base, top with the chopped spinach and beans and herbs, then pour over the liquid mixture.
  9. If required gently give the mixture a delicate stir to ensure the filling is evenly dispersed but be careful not to damage the pastry case.
  10. Sprinkle over the remaining cheese. Place into the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until set and lightly golden.

  • This is a very British recipe… I mean, lard?

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  • Oh wow, this looks delicious.


    • I don’t think I’ve ever used tarragon in a recipe.

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  • I’ve never heard of a coronation quiche before!

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  • Never seen beans in a quiche before. Love spinach though. It’s certainly an interesting recipe.

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  • It looks great, not sure about the added beans though – maybe could use small Diced potato in its place.

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  • Unusual ingredients at the end

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  • this looks amazing, the crust looks perfect

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  • Looks amazing thank you for sharing your lovely recipe

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  • This Coronation Quiche looks delicious, I would not have thought of adding broad beans or soya beans.

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  • Hmmm, it does look good. I have a recipe for impossible quiche tho, where I dont need to make pastry, which I’m abysmal at ????

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  • Haven’t tried cooking with broad beans or soy beans but that sounds healthier than adding bacon which I usually see in quiche recipes.

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  • It doesn’t actually sound that interesting but looks great so I might have to give it a try. It may be one that surprises me.

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  • I love quiche. I’ve never been a fan of broad beans but ill give this a go….

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  • I have never eaten quiche before and dont think I will ever eat it Lard no thank you

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  • Looks tasty but need to replace lard with some other fat.

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  • No…. keep the lard in.,. the best pastries are made with lard….
    Think french pastries

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  • This sounds great, although I have never cooked with lard


    • I always substitute when lard is in a recipe.

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  • I don’t usually make quiche but this one sounds easy enough to make.

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  • I love spinach quiches. I’m not keen on lard, but that’s easy to substitute

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  • Love quiche and this one looks terrific! Keen to make and taste.

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