Summer season Backyard Crustless Zucchini Pie

By this level, you possibly can just about name me the zucchini queenie.

Or zucchini wizard. Trigger we’re about to get all Harry Potter up in right here.

I first shared this crustless, wholesome zucchini pie about 4 years after it was truly the *bonus* recipe for a earlier Zucchini Week. It was so good that I knew it needed to have a everlasting dwelling on the weblog. We critically make a model of this recipe over and over this time of 12 months as a result of veggies are SO recent and delightful and there are a whole lot of various methods to customise this pie!

This attractive, savory pie has bites of candy corn and juicy tomato that I like, plus tender bell pepper, savory mushrooms, and naturally, loads of zucchini to prime it off. I added cheddar cheese for that melty goodness, too, however you possibly can actually use your favourite cheese right here. I included tons of how to make it your personal all through the put up, plus straightforward ideas for freezing it (AKA it’s good for meal prep).

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Welcome to the AK Summer season Sequence

For the remainder of the summer time, we’ll be dedicating every week to pick out summer time produce! Week 4 is HERE and we’re celebrating lovely zucchini beginning with this savory zucchini pie recipe. Keep tuned on the weblog and on Instagram for every week’s produce spotlight, enjoyable movies, and extra.

Crustless zucchini pie substances

This scrumptious vegetarian zucchini pie is made with recent, easy substances that you simply in all probability have both in your backyard or in your fridge. It’s similar to a quiche however made with none kind of crust, that means it’s mild, gluten free, filled with protein and ALL the veggies your coronary heart can dream of. Listed here are the principle substances you’ll want:

• Inexperienced onion (or sub common onion)
• Mushrooms
• Grape or cherry tomatoes
• Pink bell pepper
• Corn
• Zucchini
• Eggs
• Cheddar cheese
• Recent basil
• Coconut flour (or common flour)

Customise your wholesome zucchini pie

Mainly, any means you make this zucchini pie it’s going to be completely scrumptious and excellent for any meal of the day. Listed here are some straightforward methods to make it your personal:

• Select your veggies: be at liberty to make use of any veggies you’ve gotten obtainable to you! We additionally love spinach, kale, and chopped broccoli.
• Strive a enjoyable cheese: check out feta, pepper jack, spicy cheese, and even parmesan. YUM.
• Add a lift of protein: this zucchini pie could be scrumptious along with your favourite breakfast meats like ham, bacon, or crumbled sausage.

Can I add a crust?

Positive! Be happy to strive my candy potato crust from this recipe, or perhaps a conventional, buttery, flakey pie crust like this one. If in case you have a go-to recipe, merely pour the zucchini pie combination into the crust and bake it up.

Learn how to make crustless zucchini pie

1. Prep your pan. Begin by greasing a 9 inch deep dish pie pan or springform pan with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Prepare dinner a lot of the veggies. Prepare dinner all these veggies aside from the zucchini with olive oil, salt, and pepper till the mushrooms being to melt. Set them apart.
3. Make the egg combination. Whisk collectively the eggs, milk, flour, basil, 1/2 cup shredded cheese and a bit salt & pepper.
4. Assemble the pie. Pour the veggies into your pie pan (together with the zucchini!) and unfold them out. Then pour the egg combination over, prime with extra cheese & bake.
5. Cool, slice & take pleasure in! The zucchini pie will probably be performed when the egg puffs up and turns into barely golden. Let it cool, then slice and luxuriate in along with your fav sides!

Learn how to retailer, freeze & reheat this zucchini pie

You’ll be able to retailer this crustless zucchini pie both within the fridge for 3-5 days, or within the freezer for as much as 2-3 months.

• To refrigerate: to refrigerate all the zucchini pie, merely cool it fully, cowl it with tin foil, and retailer it in your fridge for as much as 3-5 days. While you’re able to reheat it,  place all the zucchini pie within the oven at 350 levels for 15-20 minutes. You’ll want to cowl all the zucchini pie with tin foil to keep away from any burning within the oven. Alternatively, you possibly can reheat particular person slices within the microwave for 30 seconds to 1 minute till heated by means of.
• To freeze slices: cowl the slices in plastic wrap and tinfoil, after which place them into hermetic containers or ziploc luggage within the freezer. To reheat: unwrap your frozen slice and place it on a microwave secure dish at 30-second intervals for about 1 minute till heated by means of.
• To freeze the entire pie: ensure that it cools fully, then wrap in plastic wrap and canopy tightly with tinfoil. While you wish to reheat, thaw out a bit, then place within the oven for 20-Half-hour at 350 levels F till it’s heated by means of.

What to serve with crustless zucchini pie

Typically instances I’ll take pleasure in a slice of this zucchini pie with scorching sauce drizzled over it and a aspect of avocado toast or my zucchini pancakes (as a result of double the zucchini, double the enjoyable) however you possibly can be at liberty to serve with something you’d like. Listed here are some options:

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I hope you take pleasure in this summer time backyard crustless zucchini pie! See you again right here tomorrow for an additional scrumptious recipe that includes zucchini! xo!

Summer season Backyard Crustless Zucchini Pie

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time 45 minutes minutes

Whole Time 1 hour hour

ServesServes 6 servings

Straightforward low carb crustless zucchini pie filled with a rainbow of summer time greens. This wholesome zucchini pie recipe is filled with protein and simple to customise with tons of various add-ins. It is freezer-friendly and excellent for breakfast or brunch!

Elements

• Cooking spray
• ½ tablespoon olive oil or avocado oil
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 bunch inexperienced onions, diced (reserve some inexperienced scallions for topping)
• 1 cup sliced child bella mushrooms
• ¾ cup grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
• ½ small pink bell pepper, diced
• ½ cup candy corn, recent or frozen
• 1 medium zucchini, sliced into ¼ inch rounds
• Freshly floor salt and black pepper
• 6 giant eggs
• ¼ cup unsweetened almond milk (or any milk)
• 2 tablespoons sifted coconut flour (or sub 1/4 cup common flour)
• 3-5 giant basil leaves, julienned
• 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese, divided

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375 levels Fahrenheit. Grease a 9 inch deep dish pie pan (or a 9 inch springform pan) with nonstick cooking spray.

• Add olive oil to a big skillet and place over medium excessive warmth. As soon as scorching, add garlic, inexperienced onions and sauté till aromatic. Then add in mushrooms, tomatoes, pink bell pepper and corn; season with a bit salt and pepper and cook dinner for a couple of minutes till the mushrooms start to melt. (We’re not cooking the zucchini!) Take away veggies from warmth and put aside.

• In a big bowl, whisk collectively eggs, almond milk, flour, basil, 1/2 cup shredded cheese and a bit salt & pepper.

• Add all the veggies (together with the zucchini) to the greased pie pan and unfold out evenly. Subsequent pour your egg combination excessive of the veggies. Sprinkle the highest with remaining 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese.

• Bake for 35-50 minutes or till egg units, puffs up, and turns into barely golden. Take away from warmth and permit to chill for 10 minutes earlier than slicing into 6 slices. Permit pie to fully cool earlier than protecting and storing within the fridge.

Recipe Notes

Be happy to combine and match veggies and cheese. You’ll be able to actually make this scrumptious crustless zucchini pie your personal!
To freeze particular person slices: cowl them in plastic wrap and tinfoil, after which place them into hermetic containers or ziploc luggage within the freezer. To reheat: unwrap your frozen slice and place on a microwave secure dish at 30-second intervals for about 1 minute till heated by means of.
See the complete put up for extra methods to customise and what to serve with this zucchini pie.

Vitamin

Serving: 1sliceEnergy: 176kcalCarbohydrates: 7.8gProtein: 11.4gFats: 11.4gSaturated Fats: 5.2gFiber: 1.2gSugar: 1.4g

This put up was initially printed on August 4th, 2019, republished on August twenty fifth, 2022, and republished with new images on July thirtieth, 2023.