Cottage Cheese Quiche Food

COTTAGE CHEESE QUICHE LORRAINE

Steps:

• Cook "bacon" until crispy. Lay pie crust in pie pan and cover with swiss cheese. Crumble bacon on top. Beat eggs and then mix with cottage cheese. Pour over bacon and swiss in pie shell. Bake 40-50 minutes at 350°F Quiche will appear a tad liquidy (but not jiggly), but it's done and moisture will disappear after sitting to cool a bit.
• Alternative use 3 pieces of bacon in the quiche and keep 3 to crumble on top of quiche after removing from the oven.

COTTAGE CHEESE QUICHE

Steps:

• Bake pie shell at 400 degrees for about 3-5 minutes.
• Combine rest of ingredients except fried onions.
• Stir to mix.
• Place mixture in pie shell and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Sprinkle with fried onions (or breadcrumbs).
• Return to oven and bake 15 minutes longer.
• Remove and let stand for 5 minutes.

BASIC CHEESE QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°; prick the crust all over with a fork.
• Line it with tin foil and weight the bottom with a pile of dried beans, rice, or other weights that will sit flat on the surface.
• Bake 12 minutes; remove from the oven and carefully remove the weight and foil; turn the oven to 325°.
• In a bowl, combine the eggs, cheese, cream, and seasonings; beat until well blended.
• Place the baked crust on a baking sheet; pour the egg mixture into the crust, right to the top.
• Carefully transfer the baking sheet to the oven; bake 30-40 minutes, until the mixture is set but still moist; it should still jiggle just a little in the middle (cover pie crust edges with foil if getting too brown).
• Cool on a rack; serve warm or at room temperature.

CRUSTLESS FOUR-CHEESE QUICHE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, melt butter.
• Stir in flour until smooth; gradually add milk.
• Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly.
• Remove from heat; cool for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the cottage cheese, baking powder, mustard, and salt.
• In a large bowl, beat the eggs.
• Slowly beat in the cream cheese, cottage cheese mixture and white sauce until smooth.
• Fold in the Jarlsberg and Parmesan cheese.
• Pour into a greased 9 inch pie plate.
• Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting.
• Serve warm; refrigerate leftovers.

COTTAGE CHEESE IMPOSSIBLE QUICHE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350'. Spray Pam in 9" pie pan. (Ok to use 9-inch square pan then cut into squares for appetizers.).
• Squeeze water from defrosted spinach and spread the spinach on the pan.
• Beat sour cream, cottage cheese, baking mix, melted margarine and eggs until smooth, 15 seconds in blender on high, or 1 minute with electric mixer. Pour into pie pan on top of spinach. Top with tomatoes; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
• Bake until knife inserted between center and edge comes out clean, about 30 to 40 minute Cool 5 min and serve.