Quiche is one of those dishes that everyone should know how to make. It's not difficult, and this classic cheese quiche recipe is a perfect introduction to the favorite brunch dish. Made with just a few ingredients, it's quick and easy to throw together and serves as inspiration for your own custom quiche creations.
Often associated with French cuisine, quiche is a savory egg custard baked in pie crust. The base comprises eggs, milk, and cream, cheese, and any variety of ingredients are added for flavor. This cheese quiche uses cheddar, and Swiss cheese is a nice addition. You can use any shredded cheese you like; one winning combination is havarti, colby, and Parmesan.
Quiche is an excellent choice for any meal, including a busy weeknight dinner. It can even be prepared in advance and refrigerated or frozen, then quickly reheated. Favorite quiche side dishes include green salad, a bowl of mixed fruit, a simple tomato soup or chilled gazpacho, and roasted veggies.
What You'll Need to Make This Cheese Quiche Recipe
Let refrigerated crust stand at room temperature for 15 minutes, then gently unroll. Place in a 9-inchpie pan, press into bottom and up sides, and flute edges. Be careful not to stretch the pie crust as you work, because if you do, it will shrink during baking.
Sprinkle cheeseinto the bottom of the pie crust; set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, combine the eggs, milk, cream, flour, chives, salt, and pepper, and beat with a wire whisk until the mixture is smooth and incorporated.
Pour the custard mixture carefully over the cheeses in the crust.
Bake the quiche for 40 to 50 minutes until the quiche is puffed, golden brown, and set. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting into wedges. Serve and enjoy.
Measure the ingredients carefully. If you add too much flour, the quiche filling will not be light. When there's too much dairy in relation to the eggs, the quiche will come out soft and runny, sometimes almost watery.
Make sure to use 2 percent or whole milk and don't skimp on the cream. The fat in the cream adds to the richness and makes the quiche filling tender.
Recipe Variations
Use this recipe as a basis to create your own quiche masterpieces and write down the ingredients you used so you can reproduce them.Add about a cup of additional ingredients to the pie crust before pouring the egg custard. Everything from thawed and drained frozen spinach to cooked sausage and onions or chicken, ham, shrimp, or other vegetables are excellent for a quiche.
Can a Quiche Be Made Ahead of Time?
Quiche is an excellent make-ahead dish. There are a few ways to approach it:
Prepare the pie crust and filling and keep them separate (prevents soggy crust) in the refrigerator overnight. When ready to bake, simply pour the filling into the crust and bake as normal.
Bake the quiche and let it cool completely, then cover with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator for up to three days. Reheat covered with foil in a 325 F oven for 15 minutes, or until warmed.
Bake and cool the quiche, cover with plastic and place it in a freezer-safe bag. It should keep well in the freezer for three months. When ready to eat, cover in foil and reheat until warm in a 350 F oven for about 20 minutes.
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
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Cheese: Some favorites include feta cheese, goat cheese, cheddar cheese, white cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, and gruyere. Add-Ins: Add up to 2 cups add-ins including vegetables and meat/seafood. Most quiche add-ins should be pre-cooked and can still be warm when mixing into the egg filling.
You'll need to increase the amount of eggs and milk based on the size of your quiche, so knowing the basic ratio makes it really easy to scale up or down. For a standard 9-inch quiche: Use 3 large eggs (6 ounces) 1 1/2 cups of whole milk or cream (12 ounces)
In fact, Martha Stewart's recipe for a classic quiche filling lists equal parts whole milk and heavy cream (1 ½ cups of each). To determine the ratio of milk or cream to eggs that should be used in a quiche recipe, remember that it's one egg to one-half cup of cream or milk.
While Gruyere is now fairly easy to find in grocery stores, it is on the pricier side, so feel free to substitute Emmental, Jarlsberg, Comte or Swiss cheese in this recipe.
Consideration Before Using Substitution for Ricotta Cheese.
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You need a par-baked or fully baked crust if you're making quiche, no-bake pie, custard pie, cream pie, pudding pie, or simply want an extra-crisp pie crust. If you're making a pie that doesn't require a baked filling, you still need a baked crust.
If your quiche appears watery it may just need to set for a little longer. The recipe may also contain too much dairy, so make sure that the recipe you are following has the ratio of 4 eggs to 1 cup dairy. The added ingredients could also contain too much moisture, so it is important to cook or drain additions.
Simply put, eggs do the thickening and cream creates richness. I use a ratio of 1 egg to 1/3 cup of cream to get a firm quiche with a lot of flavor. Make sure that whatever you're adding to the filling (veggies in particular) is free of any excess liquids.
With docking, the holes allow steam to escape, so the crust should stay flat against the baking dish when it isn't held down by pie weights or a filling. Otherwise the crust can puff up, not only impacting appearance but also leaving you with less space for whatever filling you have planned.
You do not need to pre-bake a pie crust for an apple pie or any baked fruit pie really, but we do freeze the dough to help it stay put. Pre-baking the pie crust is only required when making a custard pie OR when making a fresh fruit pie. you should probably get: Pie weights are super helpful to have for pre-baking.
The crispy, flaky crust is one of the best parts of a quiche. "But to achieve that tasty outer layer, you need to bake your naked crust a little before adding the egg mixture," says Zakari Davila, executive chef at Willa's in Tampa, Florida. This prevents it from getting soggy.
It is generally aged for anywhere between 2 months up to 2 years, which will determine the flavor profile and its suitability as a muenster cheese substitute. Provolone is an ideal substitute for Muenster cheese good for nearly any baked recipe you can throw it in, as well as soups and sandwiches.
This time I kept it simple by using sharp cheddar, Gruyere, and Parmesan. I also added a bit of chive because I had some on hand and thought they would add nice flavor and color to the quiche.
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