Yield: 1 quiche
Mom's Basic Quiche Recipe
Quiche is a wonderful dish to make for a special breakfast or brunch. This is a basic quiche recipe but you can be creative and add extra ingredients to it, it's very versatile. It's meant to be perfectly imperfect and rustic, no need to be fancy when you prepare the homemade crust.
Prep Time
15 minutes
Cook Time
45 minutes
Chill Time
30 minutes
Total Time
1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 c chopped onion
- 7 eggs
- 1 1/2 c half and half
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp paprika
- 1 tbsp chopped chives
- 6 oz Swiss cheese, grated
Crust
- 1 1/2 c all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 c butter, cold and cubed
- 4 oz cold water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375
- In a food processor add the flour, salt and baking powder and pulse together
- Add the cubes of cold butter and pulse together until it turns to fine crumbs
- Drizzle in the cold water (do not add it all at once, you may not need all the water) processing until it turns into a dough ball
- Put this on a well floured surface and roll out into a large circle
- Place the dough in a 9" pie plate, you can crimp the edges, leave them as is or cut the excess off
- Put the crust in the fridge for 30 minutes
- Melt the butter in a pan over medium/low heat and saute the chopped onions until transluscent
- In a large bowl whisk together the eggs until completely blended
- Stir in the half and half, salt, pepper, nutmeg, paprika, Swiss cheese, chives and sautéed onions
- Take the quiche crust out of the fridge and pour in the filling
- Brush the edges with some half and half, cover the crust edges with tinfoil or crust covers, during the last 15 minutes if they aren't golden enough, remove the crust covers (see notes)
- Put the quiche in the oven and bake for 45-55 minutes
- The quiche is done (see notes) when it is set around the sides and has a slight wiggle still in the middle
Notes
Alternatively instead of crust covers you can pull the quiche out of the oven halfway through baking and brush the crust with half and half
You can do the knife test to check if your quiche is done, use a thin knife near the center and if it comes out clean the quiche is done
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
10Serving Size:
1 sliceAmount Per Serving: Calories: 332Total Fat: 23gSaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 186mgSodium: 400mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 1gSugar: 3gProtein: 13g
This information comes from online calculators. Although moderncrumb.com attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.