Leek clafoutis Recipe for an easy and quick meal

Quick side dish or for a lunch on the go, simply mix a leek fondue with a quiche maker and a little flour. That’s all.

Do you also like leeks? Apart from soup, fondue as an accompaniment or a traditional starter with leeks and vinaigrette? Here is a recipe that I make often, to change up classic winter dishes.

The recipe in brief

We fry the sliced ​​leeks with onion (in butter, it’s much better!). Then we mix them with a preparation based on egg and milk and/or cream. Add flour and a little grated cheese on top. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes and it’s ready.

Leek Information

Leek is a vegetable low calorie (27 kcal per 100 gr) rich in fiber and in vitamin B9. Widely cultivated in France, it is found throughout the year but the peak of the season is from October to March.

Tips for choosing your leeks

The foliage must have a deep green color with firm, stiff leaves.
The white part should not be all wrinkledthis would be a sign that they were harvested too long ago.

You can do lots of things: in broths, frozen to have in advance to add to a soup, a pesto, dried and put into flakes to flavor a flavored salt.

Small, young and very fine leeks can be eaten raw, sliced ​​in a salad.
Otherwise no complicated technique for the leek, it is boiled, steamed or fried. Just be careful to clean them well then keep them into sections or slice themcut into more or less thin slices or lengthwise.

Savory clafoutis, savory flan or quiche without dough?

I admit to having always found the name quiche without dough nonsense. For me it would then be a savory flan.
We only havea migaine (egg and milk/cream) with a little flour added with a garnish.
So when we add a little flour to thickenit’s no longer a flan! This is why I call this recipe a savory clafoutis because we make it a bit like the traditional cherry clafoutis, with eggs, dairy, flour and optionally a little butter.
I could also have called this dish a gratinwhat do you think?

In short, the fact remains that this is my way of preparing leeks quickly, well done for a complete and nourishing meal but also both simple and quick. I’m sharing it with you here with the details and exact quantities because on Instagram, it has had several tens of thousands of views, so I conclude that you liked it.

Serve with a green salad for example and you will have a perfect weeknight dinner.

Small variations: I also offer you on this blog two quiche recipes with leeks : one with smoked haddock, ultra fragrant you will see that it will surprise your guests! And another with the star of spring wild plants, wild garlic.