Bacon Quiche with Spinach and Mushroom
Recipe: #10144
July 18, 2013
Categories: Breakfast, Desserts, Bacon, Eggs, French, Brunch Mothers Day, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, Heavy Cream, Pies, Quiche, more
"Delicious quiche with the flavors of spinach, mushroom, and bacon, with gruyere cheese. Doesn't need a crust but I like to make quiche with crust."
Original is 5 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (409.1 g)
- Calories 661.4
- Total Fat - 47.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 21.4 g
- Cholesterol - 974.3 mg
- Sodium - 1232.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 8.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.3 g
- Sugars - 2.8 g
- Protein - 47.4 g
- Calcium - 486 mg
- Iron - 5.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 6.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Step 2
Parbake pie crust in pie plate for 5-7 minutes, the allow to cool.
Step 3
While that is baking, fry up your bacon, then drain and crumble.
Step 4
Drain off all the bacon drippings except about 1-2 tsp. (whatever still coats the bottom of the skillet) and saute the shallot and mushrooms until soft.
Step 5
Lightly beat the eggs, then stir in the half and half, salt and nutmeg.
Step 6
When pie crust has cooled, place the torn spinach leaves in the bottom of the crust. If you haven't used baby spinach leave, make sure to trim of the stems before you put the spinach in the crust.
Step 7
Top the spinach with the bacon, and cooked shallot.mushrooms.
Step 8
Pour the custard mixture over that and sprinkle evenly with the cheese; tamp down the cheese until it is wet.
Step 9
Scatter little pieces of butter over the top.
Step 10
Place you pie plate on a pizza pan or other pan beneath in case there are any spills during baking.
Step 11
Bake the quiche on a center rack at 350F for about 40 minutes or until custard is set and quiche is golden brown.
Step 12
Let sit for 15 minutes before slicing, or the custard will crumble.
Tips
No special items needed.
1 Reviews
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