French & Vegan: Quiche Lorraine

Oh it was such a French, such a delicious evening accomponied by jumping and leg climbing foster kittens who also desperately wanted to try the French & vegan cuisine.

My French guest Astrid showed me how to make one of the Frenchest dishes you can imagine – Quiche Lorraine.

Although Astrid lives in Italy at the moment she seems to have the French cuisine still in her blood – the vegan of course. I really enjoyed to cook with her and even more I enjoyed the eating! Oh yeah!

Even my boyfriend – who is kind of skeptical when someone “veganises” a dish that originally contains meat – was perplexed in a positive way.

Vegan Quiche Lorraine

250 g flour
80 g vegan butter
some water
1/2 smoked tofu
olive oil
1 silken tofu
some soy cream
nutmeg (a lot) to taste
salt & pepper to taste
fake cheese or nutritional yeast

Devide the butter in three or four parts. It has to be soft but not too soft. Put the flour in a bowl and carefully press the first part of the vegan butter into it. Repeat with the rest of the butter. Add a pinch of salt. Add some water – not too much. You want to have a nice kneadable dough.

Take the whole dough and cover it with plastic wrap. Put it in the fridge for half an hour.

In the meantime you cut the smoked tofu in very small pieces. Fry in olive oil and salt it. Set aside.

Take the silken tofu and stirr it together with some soy cream until smooth and creamy. You could add some starch so it´s more firm at the end. We didn´t but it still was delicious.