Crustless Quiche - Ham and Cheese
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Crustless Quiche - Ham and Cheese
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Recipe video above. Tastes like Quiche Lorraine, minus the carbs and a load of prep time. Buy pre chopped ham and pre shredded cheese, and you'll get this in the oven in 5 minutes flat! Excellent breakfast or brunch that keeps for days, serve slices like quiche OR stuff into rolls, make burritos! (see in post for photo)
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Ingredients
- 5 large eggs (~50 - 55g / 2oz each)
- 1 cup cream , heavy/thickened (halve if subbing milk, Note 1)
- 1/4 tsp salt (Note 2)
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 100g/ 3.5 oz ham , diced
- 1 cup shredded cheese (anything that melts except mozzarella, Note 3)
- 1 green onion , sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F (160°C fan-forced). Grease a 22.5cm / 9" pie dish with butter or spray lightly with oil. (Note 4)
- Whisk eggs, cream, salt and pepper.
- Scatter most of the ham, cheese and green onion in the pie pan.
- Pour in egg mixture. Top with remaining ham, cheese and green onion.
- Bake 35 minutes until golden on top and centre barely wiggles. Don't overcook, it will lose custardy-ness.
- Remove from oven, rest 5 minutes and watch it deflate!
- Cut then serve with a simple side salad, or stuff into soft rolls, or wrap into burritos (then pan fry to crisp!)
Notes
- Cream v milk - cream will yield a more luxurious custardy texture like traditional quiche (such as this Quiche Lorraine). Milk will give it a texture like frittata. Both delicious!
- If using milk however, to halve the quantity because eggs can't hold as much milk as it can cream (the quiche won't set properly if you use 1 cup milk).
- Low fat cream works fine (use same quantity as full fat cream).
- Salt - don't need much, ham and cheese is salty. Don't get greedy with ham - it can make the quiche too salty (first hand experience!).
- Cheese - mozzarella doesn't have much salt in it so if you only have mozzarella, add a pinch of extra salt into the egg mixture.
- Pie pans come in all sorts of sizes, I like using a 22.5cm / 9" standard pie tin because it bakes well in this - larger ones tend to sag more in centre and cook less evenly. If using a larger pie tin, scale the recipe up slightly (click on servings and slide up).
- 20cm/8" square pan - use recipe scaler (click on ingredients and slide) to increase eggs to 7 eggs. Grease the pan well, then make per recipe. Bake 40 minutes.
- Muffin tins - it will probably fill 10 muffin holes. 20 minutes at the same temp. OR use this Frittata Muffins recipe (made using milk), switch fillings with this ham and cheese.
- Storage - keeps 5 days in the fridge, freezer 3 months (cool, wrap, airtight container. Thaw then reheat in microwave or covered in oven 180C/350F for 10 minutes (for full quiche, a slice will be less).
- Nutrition per serving, assuming 6 slices.
Nutrition Information
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Calories
264cal
(13%)
Carbohydrates
2g
(1%)
Protein
13g
(26%)
Fat
23g
(35%)
Saturated Fat
13g
(65%)
Cholesterol
214mg
(71%)
Sodium
499mg
(21%)
Potassium
95mg
(3%)
Fiber
1g
(4%)
Sugar
1g
(2%)
Vitamin A
927IU
(19%)
Vitamin C
1mg
(1%)
Calcium
141mg
(14%)
Iron
1mg
(6%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 6- 8
Amount Per Serving
Calories 264 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 264cal | 13% |
| Carbohydrates | 2g | 1% |
| Protein | 13g | 26% |
| Fat | 23g | 35% |
| Saturated Fat | 13g | 65% |
| Cholesterol | 214mg | 71% |
| Sodium | 499mg | 21% |
| Potassium | 95mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 1g | 2% |
| Vitamin A | 927IU | 19% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 141mg | 14% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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