Roasted Broccoli Bacon Cheddar Quiche
If your husband is anything like mine, he claims to not like quiche.
However, he absolutely will clean his plate every time I make my Roasted Broccoli Bacon Cheddar Breakfast Pie.
Sometimes it's just a matter of semantics.
I love baking quiche (er...I mean breakfast pie) using our fresh eggs. It's quick, easy, great warm as a winter supper with a bowl of soup or at room temperature with a salad in the summer.
It's great for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
I love that you can adapt it to use whatever leftover veggies and cheese you have, but I think this Roasted Broccoli, Bacon and Cheddar combination is my favorite.
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Roasted Broccoli Bacon Cheddar Quiche
Roasted Broccoli Bacon Cheddar Quiche
ingredients:
- 1 pie crust (store bought or homemade)
- 1 Cup broccoli florets
- 3 garlic cloves
- 4 fresh eggs (chicken or duck works)
- 1 Cup heavy cream
- 1/2 Cup milk
- 1/2 Cup chopped onion
- 8 slices bacon
- 1-1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1 Tablespoon flour
- Salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste
instructions:
How to cook Roasted Broccoli Bacon Cheddar Quiche
- Roll out crust and line with foil and weights. Bake your crust at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, remove foil and weights and bake another 15 minutes until lightly browned.
- Remove from oven and let cool. Turn oven temperature down to 325 degrees.
- Meanwhile, cook the bacon until crispy in a cast iron skillet.
- Remove bacon and roast the broccoli florets and sliced garlic cloves in the bacon grease over high heat until crispy and browned. Chop broccoli and bacon into smallish pieces.
- Whisk eggs, heavy cream, milk, and onion. Toss together the shredded cheese and flour, stir into egg mixture with the bacon and the broccoli mixture.
- Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
- Pour into the pie shell and bake for 40 minutes or until set. Cover the crust with foil if necessary to prevent over browning.
- Remove from oven and serve hot or at room temperature.
NOTES:
One nice thing is that quiche reheats beautifully in the oven or microwave or is good room temperature the next day also.
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