Here is a healthy recipe for brunch or lunch. This spinach and red pepper quiche is a healthy option for your table. You can speed up the process by using a frozen deep dish pie crust.
What is a Quiche?
A quiche is a savory egg and cream custard in a pastry crust with other ingredients. Typically having cheese as a main ingredient. Quiche is typically served for breakfast or lunch and can be served hot or room temperature. Many will substitute milk for cream, however, the texture and flavor will be different.
You may be intimidated in making a quiche, don’t be. Making a quiche is fairly easy.
How do you get the quiche to look great at the table?
The custard needs the correct portions of eggs to cream. The correct portions are 1 extra large or jumbo egg to 2 ounces of cream. Consequently 4 extra large eggs and 8 ounces of heavy whipping cream.
If you use small or medium eggs: use 5 eggs to 8 ounces of heavy whipping cream. That’s it.
This spinach and red pepper quiche is fairly straight forward.
First you will chop and cook the spinach and red pepper.
Next you will layer the cooked spinach, red pepper and grated cheese into the pie crust. Pour in the custard mix and bake. That’s it. Give it a try! Let me know how your quiche turned out.
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Grate cheese and set aside.
- In a bowl add eggs, heavy cream, salt, pepper and nutmeg, whisk well.
- Dice up red bell pepper, set aside.
- In a frypan on medium heat, sauté red bell peppers about 5 minutes, remove from frypan set aside on a paper towel to drain.
- In a frypan on medium heat add chopped spinach and sauté until wilted about 1-2 minutes.
- Poke holes with a fork in the bottom of the 9 inch deep dish pie crust and prebake for 4 minutes at 350 degrees F. Remove from oven and let stand for a few minutes on a wire rack.
- Pre heat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Place the cooked spinach first into the prebaked pie crust.
- Add the cooked red bell peppers to the prebaked pie crust.
- Add the grated cheese to the prebaked piecrust.
- Place a shallow baking pan on the rack of a preheated oven. Place the prebaked piecrust with spinach, red bell pepper and grated cheese on the shallow baking pan of the preheated oven. Now pour the custard mix into the pie crust. (see photo)
- Bake @ 375 degrees F. for 30-36 minutes. Check at 30 minutes. Should look like this.
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