Quiche

My favorite Quiche recipe! It’second made with a buttery, crispy in addition to flaky pie crust along amongst a rich egg filling together with more or less delicious mix-ins including ham, cheese together with herbs! It’sec perfect for weekends as well as holidays.

What is Quiche?

It is a French tart made amongst a uncomplicated pastry crust (amongst flour, butter in addition to water) that is filled amongst a savory egg custard. If oftentimes includes veggies, meats, seafood, cheese or herbs mixed inward too.

It’s a classic timeless recipe in addition to it always makes for an impressive brunch (or dejeuner). You’ll beloved leftovers also!

This ham too cheese version is 1 of my favorites simply the mix-inward options are endless. You can but supersede the ham amongst 2 cups of other fillings of your choice.

Just stick amongst the base of operations custard recipe: v eggs to 1 i/iv cups heavy cream.

You tin likewise function one-half as well as half inward home of cream but it’s non quite equally rich too the crust doesn’t seem to stay equally crisp.

Frittata vs. Quiche

A frittata is an egg based dish similar to an omelette and has no crust. Generally frittatas are filled amongst pre-cooked vegetables as well as they’re started cooking on the stovetop until eggs are assault the bottom and then finished inwards the oven.

A quiche has a crust in addition to is ordinarily richer too less eggy than a frittata (though the quiches I make withal tend to err on the side of eggy, I prefer the flavour together with texture this style). It is completely oven baked.

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Variations

There are and so many ways to get in. Here are a few of the virtually pop options. Omit the ham then stir inward ane of these options into the egg mixture instead.

Quiche Lorraine: Cook eight oz bacon until crisp, drain and then chop. Also add together ane/viii tsp nutmeg to recipe.

Spinach Quiche: Defrost 1 (10 oz) handbag spinach. Ring dry out to take excess liquid.

Broccoli or Asparagus Quiche: Use ii cups small chopped steamed broccoli or asparagus.

Mushroom Quiche: Saute viii oz sliced mushrooms inward butter or olive fossil oil until shrunken and gilt chocolate-brown.

Make it Crustless

• To brand a crustless quiche only omit the crust from the recipe.


• Spray the pie dish alongside not-stick cooking spray.


• Bake 350 for about 35 minutes or until centre is only fix.

Use a Store-Bought Crust

• For an slowly quiche recipe yous tin function a shop-bought, frozen deep-dish pie crust.


• If doing then thaw 10 minutes. Pierce bottom too sides all over with a fork.


• Bake inward preheated 400 level oven for 10 minutes until dry (seal upwardly an cracks alongside a mixture of i Tbsp water 1 Tbsp flour, bake a infinitesimal longer).


• Reduce custard mixture to 1 loving cup heavy cream in addition to iv big eggs. Bake alongside filling at 350 degrees.


• Reduce bake fourth dimension past well-nigh 5 minutes more or less.

Quiche Recipe Ingredients

• All-use flour: I prefer unbleached all-function flour equally it has a ameliorate season than bleached.


• Granulated saccharide: This helps tenderize together with chocolate-brown the crust. Only a hint is needed.


• Salt: The crust has a decent amount but yous tin can definitely reduce slightly equally desired.


• Unsalted butter: We purpose plenty of this for a rich in addition to buttery pie crust.


• Ice water: Making sure the H2O is super cold is a must. It helps go along the butter common cold, inwards plow it doesn’t melt together with y'all end with a flakier pie crust.


• Eggs: Pasture raised eggs are best (together with it’second a amend character of life for the chickens who put them as well).


• Heavy cream: Whipping cream works keen too.


• Ham: You tin can use leftover ham from a ham roast, ham steak, thick-cutting deli ham, or pre-cutting cubed ham.


• Shredded cheese: Cheddar, swiss, or gruyere are smashing choices here.


• Green onions: If you desire a milder flavor alone function the greens for slightly bolder flavor as well include the whites (which is what I make).


• Parsley: This simply adds a hint of extra flavour. You tin omit if y'all don’t accept whatsoever on mitt.


• Salt in addition to pepper: Season to taste.

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How to Make Quiche Crust

1. Whisk dry ingredients: In a medium mixing bowl whisk together flour, sugar and common salt.


2. Cut in butter: Add butter as well as using a pastry cutter cutting butter into flour until it resembles coarse repast amongst some slightly larger clumps of butter throughout.


3. Toss inward water: Drizzle in water one Tbsp at a fourth dimension, tossing too mixing later each improver, too adding merely plenty H2O until mixture is but moistened enough (when pressed together with your mitt it should hold together).


4. Shape dough into disk, chill: Dump mixture onto a make clean work surface and then press together well too cast into a half dozen-inch disk, comprehend together with chill 1 hour inwards fridge.


5. Roll out dough, transfer to pie dish: Roll chilled dough out onto a floured surface to near a thirteen-inch round. Roll in addition to twine dough around a rolling pivot so transfer to a ix to ix 1/two-inch deep dish pie pan.


6. Shape into pan: Unroll dough into pan and so shape into pan. Trim uneven edges patch leaving nearly 1-inch overhang, flexure overhang underneath. Decorate edges as desired.


7. Chill: Freeze dough for 20 minutes or refrigerate for 1 hour. Meanwhile act oven rack i grade below heart preheat oven to 350 degrees.


8. Cover crust, fill amongst weights: Cover crust amongst aluminum foil, pressing direct against bottom together with side surfaces and leaving foil overhang to drape over elevation of crust to foreclose over-browning. Fill alongside dry beans, saccharide or pie weights.


9. Bake, covered: Set crust on a baking canvas, then bake in preheated oven 25 minutes.


10. Remove cover, go along to bake: Remove foil in addition to beans, pierce bottom as well as sides all over alongside a fork and proceed to bake until crust appears dried, nigh ten minutes longer.

How to Make Quiche Filling

1. Blend eggs together: In a mixing bowl, whisk eggs amongst a fork until blended.


2. Mix inwards remaining ingredients: Add heavy cream, ham, cheese, light-green onions, parsley too flavor alongside common salt in addition to pepper to gustatory modality. Stir mixture until blended.


3. Pour into blind baked crust: Pour mixture into pie crust.


4. Bake merely until prepare: Bake inward preheated 350 level oven (one degree below centre) until heart of quiche is just barely set, near 45 – 55 minutes. If needed tent crust edges alongside a pie shield or a foil ring to prevent excessive browning during the final 15 minutes.


5. Slice as well as serve: Let residue for a few minutes before slicing. Serve warm.

Can y'all make ahead or freeze quiche?

• Yes prepared quiche refrigerates good for iii days or freezes good for three months.


• Cool earlier freezing.


• If freezing twine inwards foil so store in an airtight container. If refrigerating simply roll superlative amongst foil.


• Thaw frozen quiche for ane twenty-four hour period when prepare to serve.


• Reheat common cold quiche in a 325 degree oven until heated through.

Quiche Mix-ins Ideas

I’ve listed lots of ideas already, simply allow’sec bring them all together along alongside the others, for a quick listing to bring up to when needed.

• COOKED MEATS: Ham, bacon, chicken, turkey, breakfast sausage, Italian sausage, chorizo, salami, pastrami, smoked salmon, or crab essence.


• VEGETABLES: Mushrooms, grape tomatoes (or Sun-dried), bell peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, olives, kale, spinach, radicchio, arugula, peas, potatoes, zucchini onion or shallot. Note that the vegetables should be cooked beforehand past sautéing, steaming or roasting.


• CHEESES: Cheddar, Swiss, gruyere, Monterrey jack or pepper jack, mozzarella, Romano, parmesan, goat cheese, feta, provolone, gouda, fontina, or ricotta.


• HERBS as well as SEASONINGS: Basil, parsley, chives, tarragon, dill, thyme, marjoram, chervil, oregano, reddish pepper flakes, paprika, or nutmeg.

Helpful Tips

• Blind bake crust before filling for a non-soggy crust.


• Use a drinking glass or metal pie pan non ceramic for a crispier crust.


• Bake quiche merely until eye is set up. A toothpick inserted should live gratis of moisture batter, though quiche may simply barely wiggle slightly.


• Remember there will be a picayune carryover cooking upon removal from oven so careful non to over-bake so it’second not rubbery.

What to Serve alongside Quiche

• Fruit Salad


• Roasted Potatoes


• Tomato Salad or Avocado Salad


• Tomato Soup

More Brunch Favorites

• Baked Oatmeal


• Crepes


• Eggs Benedict


• French Toast

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Quiche Recipe

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It'second made with a buttery, crispy and flaky pie crust along alongside a rich egg filling too around delicious mix-ins including ham, cheese too herbs! It's perfect for weekends too holidays.

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Servings: 8

Prepi hour 60 minutes

Cooki 60 minutes hr thirty minutes minutes

Chilli hr hour twenty minutes minutes

Ready inward: three hours hours 50 minutes minutes

Ingredients

Crust*

• i i/four cups (177g) unbleached all-function flour, scoop and level to measure out
• one/ii tsp granulated saccharide
• one/two tsp (scant) table salt
• x Tbsp (141g) unsalted butter, real cold, cut into pocket-sized cubes
• two - 4 Tbsp water ice water

Quiche Filling

• five big eggs
• i 1/four cups heavy cream (or half as well as one-half)
• one 1/iv cups chopped ham
• i loving cup shredded cheese (cheddar, swiss, or gruyere)
• 1/iii loving cup chopped light-green onions
• ii Tbsp chopped parsley
• Salt together with freshly ground black pepper, to gustation

Instructions

For the Crust

• In a medium mixing bowl whisk together flour, saccharide together with salt.
• Add butter as well as using a pastry cutter cut butter into flour until it resembles coarse meal alongside just about slightly larger clumps of butter throughout.
• Drizzle inward H2O i Tbsp at a time, tossing as well as mixing subsequently each add-on, together with adding only plenty H2O until mixture is but moistened enough (when pressed together with your manus it should concord together).
• Dump mixture onto a clean work surface so press together good into a round disk. Flatten to about half dozen-inch disk as well as wind with plastic wrap or transfer to a container.
• Chill one hour inward fridge.
• Roll chilled dough out onto a floured surface to well-nigh a thirteen-inch circular. Roll together with wind dough around a rolling pivot and then transfer to a ix to nine ane/two-inch deep dish pie pan.
• Unroll dough into pan and then cast into pan. Trim uneven edges piece leaving almost ane-inch overhang, crease overhang underneath. Decorate edges as desired.
• Freeze dough for twenty minutes or refrigerate for ane 60 minutes. Meanwhile move oven rack one level below eye preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cover crust alongside aluminum foil, pressing straight against bottom in addition to side surfaces together with leaving foil overhang to drapery over edges of crust to foreclose over-browning. Fill with dry beans, sugar or pie weights.
• Set crust on a baking sheet, so bake in preheated oven 25 minutes.
• Remove foil and beans. Pierce bottom and sides all over alongside a fork in addition to go along to bake until crust appears dried, nearly ten minutes longer.

Quiche Filling

• While crust is baking prepare the quiche filling and then you lot tin can pour into a warm crust.
• In a mixing bowl whisk eggs with a fork until blended.
• Add heavy cream, ham, cheese, light-green onions, parsley together with flavour with common salt and pepper to sense of taste. Stir mixture until blended.
• Pour mixture into pie crust. Bake inward preheated 350 level oven (one grade below middle of oven) until middle of quiche is merely barely ready, near 45 - 55 minutes. If needed tent crust edges alongside a pie shield or a foil phone to forbid excessive browning during the final xv minutes.
• Let residuum for a few minutes earlier slicing. Serve warm.

Notes

Store-bought Crust Option

• For an slow quiche recipe you lot can function a shop-bought, frozen deep-dish pie crust.


• If doing and then thaw x minutes. Pierce bottom and sides all over amongst a fork.


• Bake crust inward preheated 400 level oven for ten minutes until dry out (seal upward an cracks alongside a mixture of 1 Tbsp H2O one Tbsp flour, bake a minute longer).


• Reduce custard mixture to one loving cup heavy cream in addition to iv large eggs. Reduce bake time for filled quiche past nigh v minutes about.

Quiche Mix-Ins 

Use upward to 2 cups inward place of ham listed.

• COOKED MEATS: Bacon, chicken, turkey, breakfast sausage, Italian sausage, chorizo, salami, pastrami, smoked salmon, or crab inwardness.


• VEGETABLES: Mushrooms, grape tomatoes (or sun-dried), bell peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, olives, kale, spinach, radicchio, arugula, peas, potatoes, zucchini onion or shallot. Note that the vegetables should be cooked beforehand past sautéing, steaming or roasting.


• CHEESES: Cheddar, Swiss, gruyere, Monterrey jack or pepper jack, mozzarella, Romano, parmesan, caprine animal cheese, feta, provolone, gouda, fontina, or ricotta.


• HERBS in addition to SEASONINGS: Basil, parsley, chives, tarragon, dill, thyme, marjoram, chervil, oregano, ruby pepper flakes, paprika, or nutmeg.

Nutrition Facts

Quiche Recipe

Amount Per Serving

Calories 489
Calories from Fat 360

% Daily Value*

Fat 40g62%

Saturated Fat 23g144%

Trans Fat 1g

Cholesterol 235mg78%

Sodium 564mg25%

Potassium 201mgsix%

Carbohydrates 19gsix%

Fiber 1giv%

Sugar 1gane%

Protein 16g32%

Vitamin A 1424IU28%

Vitamin C 2mgii%

Calcium 158mgxvi%

Iron 2mgxi%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition values are estimates only. See total disclaimer here.

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: French

Keyword: Quiche

Author: Jaclyn