Mini Bacon Egg Cheese Quiches Food

MINI BACON CHEESE QUICHE WITH PUFF PASTRY

Steps:

• Heat a little oil in a medium frying pan and cook bacon until brown. When cooked, place the bacon on absorbent paper and cool. Dice the bacon into tiny pieces and put them aside for later.
• Finely slice the spring onion and grate the cheese. Put these aside.
• Next, prepare the wet filling. In a medium bowl (or jug) mix the heavy cream, milk, and eggs until well combined, season with salt and pepper.
• Preheat oven to 220°C (425°F). Lightly grease the insides of the mini muffin tin.
• If your puff pastry comes unrolled, you will need to roll it out thin before cutting into rounds. Use a round cookie cutter to cut circles of dough to line the insides of the mini muffin tins.
• Place the rounds in the cups of the prepared muffin tin. Carefully push the pastry to the bottom of the cups and gently press the pleated pastry to the sides. The pastry should be level with the top of the muffin tin. Note: You don't need to blind bake the pastry before adding the filling.
• Divide the onions, bacon, and cheese evenly between the pasty-lined muffin cups.
• Carefully pour the creamy egg filling into each of the muffin cups. The liquid should be level with the top of the muffin tin.
• Place in the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
• Remove from the oven and allow to stand in the tins for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
• Serve warm or at room temperature.

MINI BACON QUICHES

Steps:

• Sprinkle each pastry crust with 1 teaspoon flour; place floured side down on a lightly floured surface. Cut 12 circles from each crust, using a 2-1/2 in. round biscuit cutter. Press dough onto the bottom and up the sides of miniature muffin cups coated with cooking spray; set aside., In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. Spoon about 1 tablespoon of mixture into each prepared crust. Bake at 400° for 14-18 minutes or until filling is set. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm.

MINI BACON QUICHES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350˚. Roll out 1 sheet of pie dough on a lightly floured surface until very thin and about 14 inches in diameter. Cut out 12 rounds with a 2 3/4- to 3-inch cookie cutter. Repeat with the remaining sheet of pie dough. Press the rounds firmly into each cup of a 24-cup mini-muffin pan (preferably nonstick). Lightly prick the bottoms and sides with a fork.
• Bake the crusts until lightly browned, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool slightly.
• Meanwhile, cook the bacon in a small skillet over medium heat, turning, until crisp, about 8 minutes. Transfer to paper towels to drain, then finely chop. Whisk the eggs, heavy cream and a pinch each of salt and pepper in a bowl until well combined.
• Sprinkle the bacon in the bottom of each crust. Fill with the egg mixture and top with chives. Bake until just set, about 15 minutes (it's OK if some egg leaks through the pastry). Let cool 10 minutes, then remove from the pan.

CHEESY QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Heavily spray a 12-cup nonstick muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add the bacon and cook until crispy, about 6 minutes. Remove the bacon to a plate with a slotted spoon and pour 2 to 3 tablespoons of the bacon fat (see Cook's Note) into a large, heatproof bowl. To the bacon fat, add the crushed corn flakes and Cheddar. Stir the mixture together until it starts to clump. Press the mixture into the cups of the prepared muffin pan. Bake until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Remove and cool slightly on a baking rack in the pan.
• Return the skillet to medium-high heat and add the butter. Once the butter is melted, add the onions and cook until softened and starting to brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle on the mustard, salt, paprika and pepper. Stir the collard greens into the onion mixture. Continue cooking the greens, stirring occasionally, until wilted, 5 to 6 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly.
• Whisk together the half-and-half and eggs, then stir in the greens. Pour some of the egg mixture into each crust in the pan to come about three-quarters of the way up and sprinkle on the bacon. Bake until the egg has set and doesn't jiggle, 15 to 20 minutes. Set the mini quiches on a baking rack for 10 minutes to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature.

MINI BACON EGG CHEESE QUICHES

Steps:

• Combine the butter and cream cheese.
• Cream until smoothy.
• Add in flour,mix well.
• Form the dough into 30 1 inch balls.
• Put the balls in lightly greased muffin tins.
• Press dough in cups,to form a shell.
• With a fork,pierce bottoms,sides of shells.
• Bake shells at 400 degrees for 5 minutes.
• Let cool.
• Combine the first 8 ingredients.
• Stir mixture well.
• Pour into the ready made shells.
• Bake at 350,for 20 minutes.

MINI SPINACH, BACON, CHEESE QUICHES

Steps:

• In a skillet over medium heat cook the onions in bacon grease OR olive oil until tender.
• Add spinach and seasonings and stir. Turn heat up to medium high to cook off spinach moisture. This will take only a couple of minutes; you want spinach just wilted and still bright green.
• Remove from heat and stir in bacon. Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes.
• Combine cheeses in a large bowl.
• Add eggs and stir until well blended.
• Add cooled spinach mixture. Stir to combine.
• Divide mixture evenly among 10 lightly greased muffin cups. Fill other two empty cups 1/2 full of water (to allow for even cooking).
• Bake at 350 for 40 minutes until filling is set.
• Let stand for 10 minutes, then run a thin knife around edges to release.
• Serve warm.

MAKEOVER MINI BACON QUICHES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the first nine ingredients. Place tart shells on an ungreased baking sheet; fill each with 2 teaspoons mixture., Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until filling is set and shells are lightly browned. Serve warm.

BACON MINI QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 375°F.
• Cut the bacon into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
• Drop the sliced bacon into a hot skillet over medium heat. Fry, stirring frequently, until crisp. Drain the bacon bits on a paper towel.
• Use a 2-1/4-inch round cookie cutter to cut the pie crusts into 24 rounds for the quiche crusts. (If you don't have a cutter that size, find a lid or glass that diameter to use.)
• Gently push each pastry round into a mini muffin pan cup to fit the cavity and form a shell.
• Beat the eggs and cream together until well blended. Then, stir in the bacon, cheese and scallions. Season with the salt and pepper.
• Spoon about a tablespoon of the egg mixture into each pastry-lined cup.
• Bake for 12 to 13 min. (Crusts will just start to brown slightly and the egg mixture will puff up, then flatten back out.)
• Serve warm or at room temperature.

MINI BACON QUICHE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place bacon slices in a single layer on a bacon rack or foil-lined, rimmed baking sheet, making sure they do not overlap.
• Bake in the preheated oven until browned and crisp, 10 to 11 minutes. Remove from the pan and drain bacon slices on a paper towel-lined plate.
• Increase the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin with some of the rendered bacon fat.
• Saute onion and garlic in a little bacon fat over medium heat until translucent, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat.
• Beat milk, eggs, and cream in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add spinach, Cheddar cheese, and the cooked onion mixture. Season with salt and pepper and mix with a spatula to combine.
• Make a ring of bacon by running a slice around the sides of each muffin cup. Scoop egg mixture into the center of each bacon ring.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, about 15 minutes.

MINI QUICHES

Steps:

• Roll the pastry out onto a lightly floured work surface until very thin. Cut out circles that are 1cm larger in diameter than the tartlet tins. Line the tins with the pastry circles (you may need to bake these in batches if you do not have enough tins) pressing into the edges and up the sides. Re-roll any pastry offcuts until you've lined all the tins, then chill for 30 mins (if you're baking in batches, chill the off-cuts too).
• Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Line each pastry case with a piece of foil and fill with baking beans or uncooked rice. Bake for 10 mins, then lift out the foil and beans and bake for another 5 mins. Meanwhile, fry the bacon in a little oil until crisp.
• Divide the bacon and half the cheese between the cases. Beat the eggs and cream together, then pour over the bacon and cheese until the cases are almost full. Scatter over the remaining cheese. Bake for 20-25 mins until golden and puffed up. Leave to cool, then chill before serving. Can be made a day ahead.

MINI BACON, ONION & CHEESE QUICHES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180C
• Lightly oil 16 holes of muffin/cupcake baking tray - you can use a pastry brush or just wipe it around lightly with a piece of kitchen roll if you don't have one
• Put a small amount of oil in a frying pan and cook the chopped bacon and onion until lightly browned
• Cut out circles of the puff pastry - they need to be just big enough to come up to the top of the baking tray holes A cookie cutter is ideal but you can also use cupcake/muffin cases as a guide
• Place the pastry circles in each of the muffin/cupcake tray holes to form cup shapes
• Spoon the bacon and onion mixture into the pastry cups
• Place a pinch of grated cheese on top of each of the pastry cups
• Whisk the milk and eggs together in a jug
• Pour the egg and milk mixture into each of the pastry cups
• Bake for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned on top