Italian Vegetable Quiche Food

VEGETABLE QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch square baking dish.
• Heat 1 teaspoon vegetable oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir onion, bell pepper, and garlic in hot oil until just tender, about 5 minutes. Transfer mixture to a large bowl.
• Mix eggs, zucchini, yellow squash, carrot, green onion, baking mix, 1/2 cup Cheddar cheese, 1/4 cup vegetable oil, salt, Italian seasoning, paprika, red pepper flakes, and black pepper into onion mixture. Spread vegetable mixture into prepared baking dish and sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup Cheddar cheese.
• Bake in preheated oven until lightly browned, about 35 minutes.

ITALIAN VEGETABLE QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• In a large skillet on medium high heat, add the olive oil and saute the mushrooms until the moisture is release and evaporated, (5 or 6 mins.), then add the pepper and zucchini and cook until slightly softened, (5 to 7 minutes). Remove to a large bowl to cool, 10 mins.
• Once cooled, add the remaining ingredients and fold together. Be sure to drain the spinach well and squeeze as much moisture out as you can. I use paper towels for this.
• Place ingredients into a greased, 9 1/2 inch pie plate, (or similar oven safe container), and place into the oven, 45 to 55 minutes until the edge starts to brown.
• Let cool 15 to 20 minutes before serving.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in. thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim crust to 1/2 in. beyond edge of plate; flute edge. Line unpricked crust with a double thickness of foil. Fill with pie weights, dried beans or uncooked rice. Bake on a lower oven rack until edge is light golden brown, 15-20 minutes. Remove foil and weights; bake until bottom is golden brown, 3-6 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack. Reduce oven setting to 375°., Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook sausage, onion, green pepper and jalapeno over medium heat until sausage is no longer pink and vegetables are tender, breaking up sausage into crumbles; drain. Spoon into crust and sprinkle with cheese., In a large bowl, whisk remaining ingredients; pour over cheese. Bake until a knife inserted in center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.Freeze option: Cover and freeze unbaked quiche. To use, remove from freezer 30 minutes before baking (do not thaw). Preheat oven to 375°. Place quiche on a baking sheet; cover edge loosely with foil. Bake as directed, increasing time as necessary for a knife inserted in the center to come out clean.

LOADED VEGETARIAN QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Bake pie crust in preheated oven until firm, about 8 minutes. Remove crust from oven and set aside. Reduce oven heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion, green bell pepper, mushrooms, and zucchini in hot oil until soft, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove vegetables from skillet and set aside.
• Sprinkle tomato slices with flour and basil; cook in the skillet for 1 minute per side.
• Whisk eggs, milk, salt, and pepper together in a small bowl.
• Spread 1 cup Colby-Monterey Jack cheese in the bottom of pie crust. Layer vegetable mixture over the cheese and top with the tomatoes. Pour egg mixture into pie shell. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup cheese atop the quiche.
• Bake in preheated oven until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool 5 minutes before serving.

ITALIAN QUICHES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Line unpricked crusts with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil. Bake 4 minutes. Remove foil; bake 4 minutes longer. Remove from oven; leave oven on., In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Spoon sausage into crusts; sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. Top with onion and peppers. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, milk and garlic. Pour over peppers; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese., Cover edges of quiches loosely with foil; place on a baking sheet. Bake at 400° 35-40 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting. Freeze option: Cover and freeze unbaked quiches up to 3 months. To use, remove from the freezer 30 minutes before baking (do not thaw). Preheat oven to 400°. Cover edges of crust loosely with foil; place on a baking sheet. Bake 50-60 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.

VEGETABLE QUICHE

Steps:

• Start preheating oven to 375. While that is happening --
• Saute onions, peppers, and mushrooms in one tbsp butter or margarine over medium heat for 10 minutes.
• While vegetables are cooking, toss cheese and flour together.
• Combine eggs, milk and seasoning and mix together.
• Add cheese and vegetables to egg mixture and mix well.
• Pour into greased pie dish and bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.
• Let stand 30-45 minutes before serving.
• Serve with orange slices and toast.

ITALIAN QUICHE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
• Place eggs, cream, salt, cayenne pepper, nutmeg, dried oregano, basil and cheddar cheese in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer for 3 minutes at medium speed.
• Heat olive oil in a frying pan. Saute the onions, garlic, zucchini and spinach.
• Arrange the bocconcini cheese slices, tomato slices and sauteed vegetables in the bottom of the pie shell.
• Pour egg mixture over the vegetables.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until set.
• Remove from oven. Garnish with snipped basil leaves and toasted pine nuts.
• Serve hot with green salad.

VEGETABLE QUICHE

Steps:

• Mix the eggs and milk together with a whisk. Combine with the ingredients from of the Summer Green Pea Salad. Pour into ready-made crust. Sprinkle grated cheese on top of the mixture. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 25 minutes.;

CRUSTLESS VEGETABLE QUICHE

Steps:

• Sautee veggies in oil until tender.
• Remove veggies and allow to cool.
• Beat eggs in bowl, add salt and pepper add cool veggies to eggs and mix well.
• Spray glass pie plate with cooking spray.
• Pour half of the egg mixture in pie plate.
• Add the cheese slices.
• Top with remaining egg mixture.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15-17 minutes.

CHICKEN VEGETABLE QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Saute diced onion in olive oil over med-high heat.
• In a med-sized bowl, mix cooked vegies, onion, chicken, italian seasoning and garlic powder.
• Roll out crust and perforate bottom. (if fresh dough, prebake 10 min).
• Beat eggs, soup, cream, salt and pepper with a whisk in a med-sized bowl.
• Spread chicken and vegetables in crust.
• Pour egg mixture over other ingredients in crust.
• To prevent burning, cover edge of crust with foil.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes.
• Let stand for 5 minutes.
• Cut and enjoy.