King Charles selected that quiche would be the special dish for his coronation and I immediately had to try the royal dish for myself.
I’m like Huey from Better Homes and Gardens without a nice kitchen or moustache.
I am very confused why Charles chose quiche as his official dish, actually everyone was very confused – but I’ve gone through all the stages of grief and now I’m at peace with his decision.
Quiche to me is the dish your mum tried to convince you tastes good.
Honestly, it is just a omelette served as a pie – it doesn’t exactly seem like a dish fit for a King.
Why would anyone chose to have a quiche when you could buy a meat pie instead? (Said every tradie and me.)
I shouldn’t be surprised though this is the man who messed things up with Princess Diana. So, I’ve given up on trusting his tastes years ago.
Despite my reservations I decided I must try the dish because I am nothing if not a joiner that will compromise her beliefs for a feed.
The recipe is pretty simple.
You can make the pastry from scratch, but I’m not Martha Stewart so I didn’t do that. If you want to be judgmental about that, well fair enough.
Thankfully, the filling is pretty straight forward.
Coronation Quiche Recipe
125ml milk
175ml double cream
2 eggs
1 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon
100g grated cheddar cheese,
180g cooked spinach, lightly chopped
60g cooked broad beans or soya beans
I pranced off to Aldi and bought a base and then I started my quest to make the perfect coronation quiche.
My boyfriend was horrified because he wanted to order pizza and drink beer that night but instead I treated him to a royal dish that just kind of tastes like a giant cheesy egg.
I heated up the base in the oven because I am quite the refined chef.
Hot tip for all you amateur chefs out there – invest in an oven.
Sadly I got distracted eating some cheese from the fridge and burnt it a little bit or did I crisp it up to perfection? Hard to tell.
It was pretty simple, I will give Charles that.
I cooked the broad beans and spinach in one pot and added in some pepper and salt – I chucked in lots of salt because I felt this dish was in dire need of flavour.
Meanwhile, I threw milk, egg and tarragon in a bowl and mixed.
It looked very scarily like yellow goo for a long period of time.
Then I mixed that up and added far more cheese then what the recipe recommended, poured it into my store bought base and threw in the oven for 40 minutes.
Ta dah!
I tried to listen to Prince Harry’s audiobook of Spare while cooking it to get into the royal mood, but it was killing the vibe.
You can’t exactly shake your hips and bake while Prince Harry drones on about his frostbitten penis.
So, I turned to Elton John!
It actually turned out looking pretty impressive.
It looks like the kind of dish that you should be selling at school fate or taking to a book club night.
So what did it taste like? Well, it tasted like a very plain quiche.
There was no meat or many spices in the recipe, so it was bland. It was fine, it tasted like something you’d get served at a funeral.
However, no one has the guts to complain about food at a funeral, so I wouldn’t exactly feel confident bringing this along to a dinner party. What if someone mentioned it just tasted like a giant omelette to my face?
I now understand why Prince Harry’s wife Meghan isn’t bothering to attend the coronation – it hardly seems worth the effort if this is what they are serving.
If you are going to get on a flight from America to see a family that hates you, you’d at least want some caviar at the end of it or even just a baked dinner.
Making coronation quiche did make me realise why Charles chose it for his big day. It is inoffensive and boring and therefore most people will like it.
Would I call it a crowd pleaser? No. But could a crowd eat it? Yes. Does the crowd deserve better? Absolutely.