No pastry, no flour, no fuss – just a ripper quiche

Hinterland Homesteading with Racheal Pascoe

Quiche. Hot or cold, this one is a winner.  Wait, don’t go! Keep reading. I know it’s quiche but honestly this is a ripper recipe. Easy peasy and so tasty the family will gobble it up, vegetables and all!  

Hiding the vegies 

For years I have been adding vegetables into meals so my kids won’t notice them. I have always wanted to serve up food full of goodness, not just vegies but eggs from our chickens too. This quiche is an old family recipe and it is me who has added the vegies to it just by experimenting. You will notice there isn’t any pastry in the recipe. Nor is there any flour. Sometimes I do add a layer of puff pastry in the bottom of the dish, but it is equally as nice without it. 

Ingredients: 
Diced bacon – 1 cup 
Onion – 1 medium, finely diced 
Cheese – 2 cups grated tasty
Eggs – 9 fresh 
Carrot – 1 medium, grated 
Zucchini – 1 medium, grated, squeeze moisture out 
Milk – a splash 
Italian herbs 
Salt and pepper 
Method - layer it up 

It is the layering method which allows other vegies to be added easily. Grease your quiche dish or muffin tin tray. Layer a sprinkle of bacon, then onion and grated cheese in the dish or each muffin cell. Two layers like this and then pour in the egg and milk mix. This is the basic recipe and it is delicious, but if you add in a layer of carrot and zucchini as well, then it makes it more of a vegie slice. 

Just a note on the zucchini. After grating it, take some paper towel and squeeze the moisture out. It’s important to do this, so your quiche won’t be a wet mess. 

How to add the vegies… layer bacon, zucchini, onion, carrot and cheese twice in the dish and you will have a really yummy meal. 

Gently pour in the egg and milk mix, sprinkle the top with Italian herbs and salt and pepper. Pop it in the oven on 180 degrees for 45 mins. It’s ready when the top is a golden brown. You know when it is cooked, if you give it a little wobble and the centre doesn’t wobble like raw egg. 

Hot or cold 

Now quiche is a versatile meal because it is all in one and it can also be eaten hot or cold. A cold slice for brekkie on the run, served hot as a main meal with a salad or corn cob on the side. Or even make the same recipe in a muffin tray for lunchboxes.  

Change it up or go vego

Your crew don’t enjoy onion? Well tough luck. No just kidding! I know what it is like. You can leave the onion out. Sometimes I add in finely chopped red capsicum and it goes unnoticed. You can change/omit ingredients and find the way your family like it. Leaving out the bacon is a vegetarian option. It is nice to add a sprinkle of French onion soup for flavour if you take the bacon out. I hope you have the time to give this one a go. 

Happy homesteading everyone!