Breakfast Quiche – A Couple Cooks

This breakfast quiche recipe is hearty and simple, starring a well-seasoned filling of hashbrowns and greens encased in pastry crust!

In search of a standout quiche recipe to make mornings extra scrumptious? Do that simple Breakfast Quiche! We’ve develop into optimistic quiche consultants over right here, making an attempt each completely different taste. This one has come out on prime! Hearty hashbrowns, bell peppers, and feta cheese for a perfectly-seasoned savory filling. Encase all of it in a flaky pastry crust, and it’s easy to bake up as a make-ahead breakfast or fancy brunch. Right here’s how one can do it!

Components on this breakfast quiche

A quiche is a French pastry stuffed with a custard and savory fillings. Many quiche recipes you’ll be able to eat for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner, making them extraordinarily versatile! You may also eat them heat or chilly, making leftovers an awesome snack or easy dinner. This breakfast quiche we created with ease in thoughts: the elements are easy and evocative of a breakfast casserole. Right here’s what you’ll want:

• Quiche crust: 1 home made recipe or refrigerated pie dough*
• Eggs
• Milk
• Heavy cream
• Dried mustard, dried oregano, garlic powder, salt and pepper
• Cheddar cheese
• Feta cheese
• Frozen or refrigerated hashbrowns
• Inexperienced onions
• Pink bell pepper

For the crust: bought is quickest

The easiest way to make a quiche recipe is with home made quiche crust! However with a breakfast quiche, chances are you’ll wish to be taught in the direction of bought crust to make preparation less complicated. For this recipe, we used a bought crust! Listed below are the professionals and cons to every methodology:

• Selfmade crust holds its form higher and tastes higher.  This quiche crust tastes so significantly better than store-bought: it’s extra buttery and flaky. It may well additionally maintain a crimped crust higher.
• Bought crust is quicker. Bought crust works too: particularly for this breakfast quiche. We’ve had some points with refrigerated pie dough holding its form in a crimped sample. For refrigerated or frozen crusts, we suggest utilizing the ornament the place you press the fork tines into the crust (see the images).

Ideas for blind baking

The largest key to creating this breakfast quiche? Blind bake the crust! This implies you bake the pastry crust with out the filling first to keep away from a soggy backside. That is important with quiche as a result of the filling is so liquid (however not required with say, apple pie which has a chunkier filling). Right here’s how one can blind bake a crust:

• Prick holes with a fork all around the crust. That is referred to as docking: it helps maintain the crust from puffing up whereas within the oven with out filling.
• Add parchment paper then pie weights, dried beans, or rice! Pour them proper into the crust. We use two units of these pie weights. Bake for 12 minutes at 400°F, then cut back the warmth to 350°F.
• Take away the pie weights. Take away the weights and bake 20 to 25 extra minutes till the crust is golden.

For the pie crust defend

For this breakfast quiche recipe, you’ll additionally want to make use of a pie crust defend. This prevents the pie crust from burning within the oven by masking simply the crust, permitting the filling to bake uncovered. There are two choices for a pie crust defend:

• Make a pie crust defend with aluminum foil. Minimize a gap within the heart of a big sheet of foil that’s the diameter of your pie plate. The foil will relaxation on the crust, however permit the filling to bake uncovered. Right here’s a video with directions for extra particulars.
• Or, purchase a metallic pie crust defend. Right here’s a hyperlink to purchase a pie crust defend on-line.

Breakfast quiche filling concepts

There are many methods to make a breakfast quiche! This one is flavored just like our hashbrown breakfast casserole. However you’ll be able to swap in numerous seasonings or filling elements to your liking! Listed below are just a few concepts and suggestions:

• Don’t overfill the quiche. Attempt to maintain the approximate quantity of greens just like the recipe beneath.
• Attempt different sauteed greens like very small broccoli florets, mushrooms, or onions.
• Add contemporary greens like sundried tomatoes, finely diced bell pepper, or frozen and thawed spinach (with all liquid squeezed out).
• Fluctuate the cheese. Attempt including smoked gouda or smoked mozzarella instead of the cheddar cheese, or add grated Parmesan.

Extra quiche recipes

Love an excellent quiche? Listed below are just a few different recipes you would possibly get pleasure from: