Spinach Bacon Quiche With A Twist Food

SPINACH AND BACON QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Place the bacon in a large, deep skillet, and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain the bacon slices on a paper towel-lined plate. Chop when cool.
• Fit the pie crust into a 9-inch pie dish, and set aside.
• In a bowl, whisk together the eggs, cream, salt, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and hot pepper sauce. Spread the spinach into the bottom of the pie crust; top with bacon, Cheddar cheese, and green onion. Pour the egg mixture over the filling, and sprinkle the quiche with Parmesan cheese.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the top is lightly puffed and browned, and a knife inserted into the center of the quiche comes out clean, 35 to 45 minutes.

SPINACH BACON QUICHE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and shortening. Use a pastry blender to cut in the shortening until there are pea-size.
• Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of the cold water over the flour and gently toss with a fork. Continue to sprinkle water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the flour mixture is moistened and a dough starts to form.
• Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface. Flatten the dough slightly. Roll dough into a 12-inch circle. Transfer to a 9-inch pie plate gently. Trim the dough to a ½ inch edge. Fold the edge under and crimp your crust as desired. Do not prick.
• Chill in a refrigerator as the oven preheats.
• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line the pie crust with a greased foil.
• Bake in the oven for 8 minutes. Remove the foil and continue baking for additional 5 minutes until the crust is set.
• Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
• In a large skillet cook onions and bacon until onion is tender and bacon is crisp.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, sour cream, half and half, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Add the onion mixture, spinach, and cheeses.
• Pour the egg mixture into the pie crust. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. You may need to cover the edges of the crust with foil to prevent overbrowning.
• Let stand for 10 minutes before serving. Garnish with cherry tomatoes.

SPINACH BACON QUICHE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat eggs; whisk in milk, 1 cup cheese, onion, bacon, salt, mustard and paprika. Add spinach. Pour into pie shell. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake at 400° for 40 minutes or until a knife inserted halfway between the center and the edge comes out clean.

SPINACH & BACON QUICHE WITH A TWIST

Steps:

• NOTE: Keep your cream cheese in the refrigerator until ready to use! I'll tell ya why later.
• Preheat your oven to 350.
• Start by frying up your 10 slices of bacon. I normally fry them 5 strips at a time.
• When finished and crispy, let them sit on paper towel while you fry up the other 5 pieces.
• When bacon is finished, let the strips just sit and hang out while you get the spinach ready.
• The next step is pretty IMPORTANT that's why I made the word important in all caps.
• If you have worked with frozen chopped spinach before, you know it's loaded with water. That's what makes this next step pretty darn important.
• Make sure your 10 ounce box of frozen spinach is totally thawed. Over the sink or over a bowl, take out the spinach, 1/3 of it at a time, and literally use your hands and squeeeeeeze out the water. Just like you are squeezing out a sponge.
• Trust me, you DO NOT want all that yucky liquid messing up your beautiful quiche.
• Ok, now you are ready to mix everything all up.
• In your Kitchen Aid mixer or in a large bowl, put in your 3 eggs, heavy whipping cream, shredded Swiss cheese,the crumbled bacon, and grated Parmesan cheese.
• Mix together until all is incorporated. Don't over mix.
• Now gently take your spinach, and separate it from the clumps that you squeezed them into, and place into the cream mixture. Carefully stir with a spoon to incorporate.
• Ok, now comes the twist . . . the extra little step that makes this quiche go from a good recipe to I think I see angels recipe.
• Take your cream cheese out of the refrigerator. It needs to be cool because it's much much much easier to cut into cubes if it's cold. Room temperature cream cheese is a no no if you want cute little cubes.
• Make the cubes about the size of a mini crouton. If you don't know what that size is, then make them smaller than a dice. If you don't know how big a dice is, then make them a bit smaller than a bouillon cube.
• Once you have cut up about 3 ounces of cream cheese into cute little cubes, very very very gently, fold them into your mixture.
• You DO NOT want to mash them up into the batter.
• What we want is wonderful little pillows of cream cheese, throughout the quiche. Like little surprise bites, that make you sit back, close your eyes, and go "oh my goodness".
• Pour the mixture into the waiting frozen deep dish pie shell.
• Bake in a 350F preheated oven for 45 minutes.
• NOTE: Sometimes it's a little tricky to tell when a quiche is done. I like to set my timer for 40 minutes and keep checking every couple minutes or so, but 45 minutes should be good.
• The key is to make sure, when you start to pull it out of the oven, that the middle is not moving or shaking.

SPINACH & BACON QUICHE WITH A TWIST

Steps:

• NOTE: Keep your cream cheese in the refrigerator until ready to use! I'll tell ya why later.
• Preheat your oven to 350.
• Start by frying up your 10 slices of bacon. I normally fry them 5 strips at a time.
• When finished and crispy, let them sit on paper towel while you fry up the other 5 pieces.
• When bacon is finished, let the strips just sit and hang out while you get the spinach ready.
• The next step is pretty IMPORTANT that's why I made the word important in all caps.
• If you have worked with frozen chopped spinach before, you know it's loaded with water. That's what makes this next step pretty darn important.
• Make sure your 10 ounce box of frozen spinach is totally thawed. Over the sink or over a bowl, take out the spinach, 1/3 of it at a time, and literally use your hands and squeeeeeeze out the water. Just like you are squeezing out a sponge.
• Trust me, you DO NOT want all that yucky liquid messing up your beautiful quiche.
• Ok, now you are ready to mix everything all up.
• In your Kitchen Aid mixer or in a large bowl, put in your 3 eggs, heavy whipping cream, shredded Swiss cheese,the crumbled bacon, and grated Parmesan cheese.
• Mix together until all is incorporated. Don't over mix.
• Now gently take your spinach, and separate it from the clumps that you squeezed them into, and place into the cream mixture. Carefully stir with a spoon to incorporate.
• Ok, now comes the twist . . . the extra little step that makes this quiche go from a good recipe to I think I see angels recipe.
• Take your cream cheese out of the refrigerator. It needs to be cool because it's much much much easier to cut into cubes if it's cold. Room temperature cream cheese is a no no if you want cute little cubes.
• Make the cubes about the size of a mini crouton. If you don't know what that size is, then make them smaller than a dice. If you don't know how big a dice is, then make them a bit smaller than a bouillon cube.
• Once you have cut up about 3 ounces of cream cheese into cute little cubes, very very very gently, fold them into your mixture.
• You DO NOT want to mash them up into the batter.
• What we want is wonderful little pillows of cream cheese, throughout the quiche. Like little surprise bites, that make you sit back, close your eyes, and go "oh my goodness".
• Pour the mixture into the waiting frozen deep dish pie shell.
• Bake in a 350F preheated oven for 45 minutes.
• NOTE: Sometimes it's a little tricky to tell when a quiche is done. I like to set my timer for 40 minutes and keep checking every couple minutes or so, but 45 minutes should be good.
• The key is to make sure, when you start to pull it out of the oven, that the middle is not moving or shaking.

SPINACH QUICHE WITH BACON

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Line 9-inch pie plate with crust; flute edge.
• Toss cheese with flour in medium bowl. Add remaining ingredients; mix well. Pour into crust.
• Bake 1 hour or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

BACON-SPINACH QUICHE

Steps:

• Rub softened butter on the inside surface of pie shell.
• Drain spinach; squeeze out as much liquid as you can.
• Place spinach in pie shell and top with crumbled bacon.
• Whisk together cream, eggs, cheese, salt, and nutmeg.
• Pour mixture into pie shell.
• Bake quiche at 425 F for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 F and bake for an additional 35-40 minutes or until quiche is set.

SPINACH AND BACON QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F.
• Combine the eggs, cream, salt and pepper in food processor or blender.
• Layer the spinach, bacon and cheese in the bottom of the pie crust.
• The pour egg mixture on top.
• Bake for 35-40 minutes until the egg mixture is set.
• Cut into 8 wedges and serve.

SPINACH, BACON AND MUSHROOM QUICHE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Sprinkle bottom of pastry-lined quiche/tart pan or pie plate with 1 tbsp dry breadcrumbs (this will absorb any excess moisture).
• Place bacon in a large skillet; cook over medium high heat until evenly brown; remove with slotted spoon and drain on paper toweling; set aside.
• With 2 tbsp of the bacon fat, sauté onion and mushrooms until all the liquid released by the mushrooms has evaporated; add spinach and cook 1-2 minutes, just until spinach wilts; add reserved bacon, coriander and nutmeg and season lightly (remember there will be salt in the cheese); place in pastry and top with 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese.
• Beat together cream cheese, eggs and milk; season to taste; carefully pour over quiche and gently shake quiche to distribute custard.
• Bake in preheated oven for 40-50 minutes, or until quiche is golden-brown, sprinkling with 1/2 cup of cheese 10 minutes before quiche is done (put the quiche directly on the oven floor for the last 10-15 minutes of baking to crisp up the crust); cool for 10-15 minutes before serving.