A good quiche can be a thing of great beauty. Far easier than it looks to rustle up, it represents the perfect way to use up ingredients and to thus nix food waste, all while encasing your creation in an impressively neat crimped pastry shell (you’re unlikely to serve up omelette to your guests, but quiche – well that is another matter). It’s perfect for making ahead of time and for throwing seasonal ingredients into, plus you can eat it hot or cold and it’s ideal with an easy leafy green salad. We are enduring fans of the humble quiche, and these are the recipes we swear by for the perfect summer lunch – served, of course, with an obligatory ice-cold glass of white wine.

Crab, Feta & Chard Quiche


Delicious Magazine
Crab, Feta & Chard Quiche

Delicious Magazine suggests this light-as-air quiche recipe as a good alternative Easter dish. We concur, but we’d also argue that its shelf life is far longer than that, its sweet crab meat cut through beautifully with the tang of feta to pack an all-summer-long flavour punch. With white wine and lemon, this is a dish to devour by the waterside, whether you’re by coast, river or pool. Serve it up with a leafy salad and finish off the feast with a light pudding of crumbly pistachio-topped peaches. Get the recipe.


Speedy Quiche Traybake


Jamie Oliver
Speedy Quiche Traybake

If you’re looking for a tasty and child-friendly way to sneak in your daily intake of veg, look no further than Jamie Oliver’s speedy quiche traybake. Using ready-made filo pastry, simply brush your sheets with egg, pile the veg and cheesy on top and cook for 35 minutes. Easy as pie – but lighter and even more perfect as a tear-and-share for summer. Get the recipe.

Perfect for making ahead of time

Hot Smoked Salmon And Broccoli Quiche


Olive Magazine
Hot Smoked Salmon And Broccoli Quiche

If you care about calories, you might be pleased to know that this one comes in at under 300. If, on the other hand, you care more deeply about flavour, then it is also a winner, its crustlessness doing away with the pastry and instead conceding the spotlight to the main ingredients: hot smoked salmon and broccoli. Plus, it’s ready in under an hour. A brilliant recipe to have up your sleeve for easy lunches and suppers all year round. Get the recipe.


Spinach Quiche


Love & Lemons
Spinach Quiche

Spinach goes with the suggested feta or goats’ cheese of this recipe like a dream, its winning combination taking us to Greek summers spent shovelling spanakopita into our hungry mouths. This recipe puts that perfect marriage centre stage, adding just green onions as well, of course, as the requisite eggs and milk. Jeanine and Jack, the duo behind Love & Lemons, suggest this eating it for lunch or even breakfast – and why not? It has all the ingredients for a brilliant start to the day. Get the recipe.


Mary Berry’s Quick & Easy Quiche Lorraine Recipe


House & Garden
Mary Berry’s Quick & Easy Quiche Lorraine Recipe

No list of killer quiches would do without including the ultimate example: quiche Lorraine. Mary Berry, being the doyenne of such classics, is the woman to whom we defer in this matter – and her tried-and-tested recipe is failsafe. As they say, ‘You can eat this quiche warm from the oven in winter for something hearty, perhaps with a zesty side salad (this escarole salad is a great option), or pack it into a wicker hamper and find yourself a riverside to lounge beside while you eat it under the spring sun. Delightful.’ We’re packing our hampers in readiness as we rustle this one up. Get the recipe.