Spinach Quiche – Light, flaky and packed with savoury flavour

Are you looking for more great breakfast recipes? It’s so easy to skip breakfast in the morning, but this Spinach Quiche will not let you skip a meal again. Spinach Quiche is welcome at the breakfast table, lunch plate or as a tea time snack.

This recipe calls for blind baking, but you are welcome to use ready-made pastry. Just follow the instruction on the packet. Blind baking a pie crust is simply pre-baking the crust, without filling, then adding the filling once the crust is baked. I added wax paper with some uncooked rice, you can add whatever you like, or just prick the crust with a fork before baking. Spinach Quiche is packed with a light and flaky crust, filled with spinach and eggs, both packed with lots of good vitamins and minerals.

Sprinkle on some feta cheese and/or bacon bits and you’ll be having this every single day. It also serves perfectly well with a delicious salad to make a great light lunch.

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Spinach Quiche Recipe

Recipe by Irene Muller Course: Breakfast, Light LunchCuisine: FrenchDifficulty: Easy

Servings

8

servings

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

45

minutes

Total time

1

hour 

15

minutes

Ingredients

• CRUST

• 2 cups cake flour

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp sugar

• 5 g cayenne pepper

• ½ tsp salt

• 120 g butter

• FILLING

• 1 tbsp butter

• 2 small onions

• 1 cup cream

• 4 eggs

• 5 g cayenne pepper

• 1 cup cheddar cheese, grated

• 6 spring onions

• ½ tsp salt

• 2 cups cooked spinach, well-drained 

Method

• CRUST
• Sift the dry ingredients except for the sugar.  
• Rub the butter in the dry ingredients until it resembles to be very crumbly. Finally add the sugar.  Don’t worry about it being too crumbly, it will come together when pressing down in an ovenproof dish +- 20 x 20 or 27 x 27 (was my choice). 
• Place in the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes. The smaller size will make it a thicker quiche.
• Blind bake in oven 180 degrees until slightly brown at 180°C – 356°F
• Remove from the oven and set aside.
• FILLING
• Preheat Oven to 175°C / 347°F
• Fry the opinions lightly in the butter on medium heat.  Set aside
• Mix the eggs, cream, salt and cayenne pepper well.
• In the prebaked pie dish, spread the opinions on the base, add the cheddar cheese.
• Spread the spinach evenly and add the egg mixture.
• Sprinkle a little Cayenne Pepper on top.
• Place pie dish in oven pan (in case of the spill) and bake for 30 to 45 minutes.
• Let it cool.

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