But first, what I love about breakfast dishes is that you can make them for dinner!
Easy for the holidays, breakfast or brunch is this Crustless Quiche Lorraine Recipe, a low-carb, keto-friendly recipe. Made with eggs, heavy cream, Swiss and gruyere cheese. You can also try my Shallot Roasted Red Pepper Mini Egg Omelets, served with slices of avocado.
We all want to savor the season, so the more we can think ahead and keep things simple, the better.
Main Ingredients for this recipe?
1. Cook and crumble the bacon 2. Grate the cheese 3. Chop the onions 4. Half moon onions: Halve it and then cut it crosswise, for pretty, half moon shapes!
When your guests come, it’s ready to assemble, bake and serve!
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1/2cuphalf moon sliced onions, Halve it and then cut it crosswise, for pretty, half moon shapes!
6large eggs
1/2cupheavy cream
1/2tspsea salt
1/8tspcayenne pepper
2Tbspfinely chopped chives
1cupshredded Swiss cheese, divided into 3/4 cup and 1/4 cup
1cupshredded gruyere, divided into 3/4 cup and 1/4 cup
Instructions
In a large sauté pan, fry the bacon over medium until crispy on both sides. Set aside to drain on paper towels, leaving bacon grease in the pan.
Add the onion to the pan with the bacon grease and sauté over medium heat for about 10 minutes, until translucent and starting to brown. Set aside to cool slightly.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 9X13 inch pie pan.
In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, cream, salt, cayenne, and chives. Stir in 3/4 cup of Swiss and gruyere cheeses.
Pour the egg mixture into the prepared pie pan. Sprinkle with the cooked onion. Cut the bacon into small pieces and sprinkle over the eggs. Push the onion and bacon into the eggs. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup of each cheese.
Bake for 30-40 minutes, until knife is inserted in the center and comes out clean.
If your quiche appears too watery to serve it could be because it was overbaked or underbaked, the egg to dairy ratio was not correct, the ingredients have too much liquid or it was baked on the wrong rack in the oven.
Crustless quiche is similar to a traditional quiche where it has savory egg custard loaded with cheese and mix-ins, but it's baked without a pie crust. It's the easygoing egg bake answer to practically every breakfast problem I've ever seen.
Heavy Cream and Milk – For the best tasting quiche, use a combination of whole milk and heavy cream. (Or simply use half-and-half.) Using just heavy cream produces an overly thick filling. Whole milk is great, but a combo of heavy cream and milk is better.
To be considered Quiche Lorraine, the quiche must be made with eggs, heavy cream, bacon, and Swiss cheese. Any quiche that strays from this formula with the omission of bacon or the addition of other ingredients such as ham, sausage, vegetables, etc. is considered quiche, not Quiche Lorraine.
"Some vegetables, such as sliced large tomatoes or raw zucchini, have a high water content and will make your quiche soggy (even if you follow all steps to avoid this!)," Davila notes.
BAKE in center of 375°F oven until center is almost set but jiggles slightly when dish is gently shaken and knife inserted near center comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes.
Roll it out a tad bit thicker than you normally would for a standard pie if possible, and absolutely use it all. Confidently press any overhang or extra pieces into the walls of your pan. Add flour to your filling: Adding a bit of flour to your quiche filling helps absorb moisture and stabilize things in general.
Crust: A quiche has crust while a frittata does not. Sometimes, quiche is baked without crust. Base Ingredients: While both frittatas and quiches are made with eggs, quiche is made with an egg custard, which also includes cream or milk. Some frittatas are made with egg whites only.
You'll need to increase the amount of eggs and milk based on the size of your quiche, so knowing the basic ratio makes it really easy to scale up or down. For a standard 9-inch quiche: Use 3 large eggs (6 ounces) 1 1/2 cups of whole milk or cream (12 ounces)
For gluten-free crust, try making a sweet potato crust. The Custard: For your custard to set properly in the oven, use this easy ratio: 1 part dairy to 2 parts eggs. Classic custards use heavy cream, but 2% milk contains a fraction of the saturated fat and is still plenty rich.
But it's possible to make quiche without heavy cream — you could try a sour cream substitute for the cream, although keep in mind that sour cream also is high in calories, at 455 per cup, and contains almost 45 grams of fat per cup as per the USDA.
Cheese: Add Swiss, Gruyère, feta, goat, Parmesan, cheddar, mozzarella, or jack cheese to a quiche. Whether you choose grated, crumbled, or shredded cheese, the ingredient will contribute salty flavor and a creamy texture to a standard quiche recipe.
A frittata is an Italian egg dish that is like an omelet or quiche but lazy and forgiving. It's lazy because the recipe is easy, and you don't have to do the tricky omelet fold. It's also forgiving since you don't have to make a crust and uses no cream or milk, unlike an omelet or quiche.
And yes, as you'll see, you should always prebake quiche crust to avoid a gummy pastry. Preheat the oven to 450°F. Roll out your homemade or purchased refrigerated dough into a 12-inch circle.
Excess moisture is one reason why quiches collapse in a watery pool on your plate. Vegetables and meats like ham give off tremendous amounts of water when they're cooked. Therefore, if you're using vegetables in your quiche, it's imperative that you cook them first.
According to Real Simple, this typically occurs when adding too-wet ingredients to the quiche filling, layering the egg custard with, for example, large slices of raw tomato or raw zucchini. These vegetables, while tasty, have a high water content when raw, which will weep into the quiche as it bakes.
One reason your frittata is soggy, is that an ingredient you used had water or other liquid that was released when cooking the frittata. One solution, is to drain all ingredients first before mixing, or to reheat the ingredients seperately, until the liquid is removed.
If you overbake it, you'll cook the jiggle right out of it. Instead, bake your quiche until the edges are set, but it still wobbles a little in the center. Follow This Tip: For a perfectly cooked quiche, just slightly underbake it. It's done when the edges are set, but the center still jiggles a bit.
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