Recipe for Smoked Salmon and Leek Quiche Without Cream

Smoked Salmon and Leek Quiche without Cream

As you well know Beach Dwellers, I am not the type to shoot just one photo, when blogging my latest recipe, but this is it for the Smoked Salmon and Leek Quiche without Cream, because this quick and easy meal was woofed down in a hurry, without even a piece left over to style up for a photo later.

This is a beauty for a Sunday night dinner, which is as it was at the Beach House last weekend.

Smoked Salmon and Leek Quiche without Cream

200g/7oz smoked salmon diced

1 leek white parts only thinly sliced

1 tablespoon peanut oil 

250g/9oz block of light cream cheese (I used Aldi lower fat spreadable cream cheese this time) 

5 eggs 

1 sheet of puff pastry thawed

1 tablespoon of milk to brush the pastry

salt and pepper to taste

oil for spaying

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F

Spray a 23cm / 9 inch pie dish with cooking oil. 

 Line it with thawed pastry and trim.

Spike the pastry all over with a fork.  

Brush pastry all over with milk

In a small non stick fry pan fry leeks in peanut oil.  Stirring well so they don't brown.

Mix cooked leeks with smoked salmon gently. Place the mixture  evenly over the pastry.

Meanwhile whisk eggs in a bowl until light and fluffy.  Beat in cream cheese.

Add salt and pepper to taste.

Pour egg mixture over the salmon and leeks.

Bake in the oven for 40-50 minutes or until golden brown and firm in the centre.  Can be served hot or cold with a green salad.

Serves 3-4 for a light meal.

This meal was such a lovely end to a family weekend and my kids happily ate this quiche without any complaints.

Over the weekend my boys went in a yacht race, which is an end of season tradition at the sailing club, It commemorates a young member, Peter Loft, who was killed in flight training in a plane crash in the Airforce.  

Start of the Marathon

One crew member holds the boat, whilst the other runs from the high tide mark to start.

They had to sail up to Palm Beach from Bayview and back and happily my crew won their division.  The larger yachts sail around Lion Island and back, so it is a real marathon.

Happily my boys won their division

I liked the vintage trophy for what it stands for, so put it in with some other reminders that life can turn on a pin head and is there for the living.

Have a good one Beach Dwellers.

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