Embark on a culinary journey with our Gruyère quiche, a delightful savory pie that blends the rich flavors of Gruyère cheese with a medley of caramelized peppers, tender onions, and vibrant spinach. This quiche is a symphony of textures, from the flaky, buttery crust to the creamy, cheesy filling, and the crisp-tender vegetables. In this article, we present two variations of this classic dish: a traditional Gruyère quiche with a homemade crust, and a simplified version using a pre-made crust. Both recipes offer step-by-step instructions, ensuring a perfect quiche every time. Additionally, we provide helpful tips for preparing the perfect crust, selecting the best Gruyère cheese, and achieving the ideal balance of flavors. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice cook, this Gruyère quiche with caramelized peppers, onions, and spinach is sure to impress your taste buds and become a favorite in your kitchen.
Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!
QUICHE WITH RED PEPPERS AND SPINACH
The real spring vegetable here is the spinach, lush and beautiful at this time of year. You can always get red peppers in a supermarket, and when you cook them for a while, as you do here, even the dullest will taste sweet. I make the pepper mixture first, then wilt the spinach in the same pan and line the tart shell with the savory mix. If you can, make the pepper and spinach filling a day ahead. It dries out a little if it sits overnight in the refrigerator and is less likely to dilute the custard.
Provided by Martha Rose Shulman
Categories dinner, lunch, main course
Time 1h30m
Yield 6 generous servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Heat oil over medium heat in a large, heavy skillet and add onion. Cook, stirring, until tender, about 5 minutes, and add a generous pinch of salt, the garlic, peppers and thyme. Cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes, then turn the heat to medium low and continue to cook for 5 to 10 minutes more, until peppers are very tender and sweet.
- Turn up heat to medium-high and, a handful at a time, add spinach and stir until each handful wilts. If there is liquid remaining in the pan turn up the heat and stir while you let it cook off. Remove from heat and transfer to a bowl. If you are making filling a day ahead, refrigerate uncovered.
- Beat together egg yolks and eggs in a medium bowl. Set tart pan on a baking sheet for easy handling. Using a pastry brush, lightly brush bottom of the crust with some of the beaten egg and place in oven for 5 minutes.
- Add salt (I use 1/2 teaspoon), pepper, and milk to the remaining eggs and whisk together.
- Spread pepper and spinach mixture in an even layer in the crust. Stir together cheeses and sprinkle in an even layer on top. Very slowly pour in the egg custard over the filling. If your tart pan has low edges, you may not need all of it to fill the shell, and you want to avoid the custard spilling over. Place quiche, on baking sheet, in the oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until set and just beginning to color on the top. Remove from oven and allow to sit for at least 10 minutes before serving. Serve hot, warm or room temperature.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 365, UnsaturatedFat 13 grams, Carbohydrate 29 grams, Fat 23 grams, Fiber 4 grams, Protein 12 grams, SaturatedFat 9 grams, Sodium 555 milligrams, Sugar 5 grams, TransFat 0 grams
SPINACH AND GRUYERE QUICHES
An outstanding quiche relies on a few simple elements: a creamy egg custard, buttery homemade crust, and flavorful cheese and vegetables. This family-friendly brunch recipe delivers all three.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
Time 1h30m
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks set in upper and lower thirds. In a large skillet, heat butter over medium. Add shallots, and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 1 to 2 minutes. Add as much spinach to skillet as will fit; season with salt and pepper, and toss, adding more spinach as room becomes available, until wilted, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Transfer spinach mixture to a colander. Press firmly with the back of a spoon to squeeze out as much liquid as possible. Divide spinach mixture and cheese between prepared crusts. Place each crust on a separate rimmed baking sheet.
- In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, half-and-half, nutmeg, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper. Dividing evenly, pour egg mixture into crusts.
- Arrange baking sheets on racks, and bake until center of each quiche is just set, 55 to 60 minutes, rotating sheets from top to bottom halfway through. Let quiches stand 15 minutes before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 564 g, Fat 40 g, Fiber 3 g, Protein 21 g
CARAMELIZED ONION, GRUYERE, AND SPINACH CRUSTLESS QUICHE
Crustless quiche is a no brainer in our house. We regularly throw together leftover vegies, a little cheese, and eggs fresh from our chickens together, pop into the oven and Voila! Breakfast for everyone! The caramelized onion with spinach and Gruyere is my all-time favorite. I usually use fresh spinach but the frozen box is easy, too.
Provided by Penny Stettinius
Categories Breakfast
Time 1h10m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- With a little canola oil in a frying pan over medium high heat caramelize the onions, stirring occasionally. This takes about 15-20 minutes.
- Squeeze the moisture out of the thawed spinach by wrapping it in a dish towel and squeezing.
- Beat the eggs and add the milk and whisk well.
- Season the egg mixture with salt and pepper and a few grinds of fresh nutmeg.
- Spray or wipe oil all over a deep pie dish.
- When the onions are well caramelized, place evenly over bottom of pie dish then evenly spread the spinach over the onions and follow up with the cheese.
- Pour the egg mixture over the top and pop into the oven.
- Bake until firm in the middle, about 40-45 minutes.
- Serve with fresh fruit and popovers hot from the oven!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 275.2, Fat 17.3, SaturatedFat 8.8, Cholesterol 228.5, Sodium 265.4, Carbohydrate 10.6, Fiber 2.7, Sugar 2, Protein 20.5
FLUFFY SPINACH, ONION AND ROASTED RED PEPPER QUICHE WITH GRUYERE
In my quest to find out what makes a quiche fluffy, I've cobbled together this recipe. And it makes a great tasting quiche with a beautiful presentation. The key (surprisingly) is not to overbeat the eggs, not to use too hot of an oven, and don't overdue the liquids.
Provided by Wish I Could Cook
Categories Savory Pies
Time 1h25m
Yield 6 slices, 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Blind bake your pie crust and let it cool.
- When crust is cool, spread Dijon mustard on bottom of the crust. Top with grated gruyere.
- Carmelize onions in olive oil. Add thyme, salt and pepper. Set aside. Spread onions on top of cheese layer.
- Chop fresh spinach and cook in frying pan with chopped roasted red peppers until wilted and starting to dry, set aside.
- Wisk together eggs, yogurt and baking powder. (Don't use a mixer.).
- Add spinach and roasted red peppers to egg mixture and pour over cheese layer.
- If you're feeling creative, decorate the top with some red pepper strips.
- Bake in 350 degree oven for 55 minutes until knife inserted in center comes out clean. You may want to protect crust edges with foil.
- Enjoy!
CARAMELIZED ONION, MUSHROOM AND GRUYERE QUICHE WITH OAT CRUST
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a 9-inch pie dish with cooking spray.
- To prepare the crust, put the oats, flour and salt in the bowl of a food processor and pulse 3 times to combine. Add the butter and pulse about 12 times, until you get a pebbly course texture. Add the buttermilk and pulse 3 to 5 times more to combine. Form the mixture into a ball and place it between 2 large pieces of waxed paper. Roll out into a circle about 10 inches in diameter.
- Remove the top sheet of waxed paper. Transfer the crust, still on the other piece of waxed paper to the pie dish, then remove the waxed paper from the top. Press the crust gently into the dish. Bake for 9 minutes, then let cool.
- To prepare the filling, heat 2 teaspoons of oil in a large nonstick pan over a medium-low heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown and caramelized, about 20 minutes. Transfer the onions to a bowl. Add the remaining 2 teaspoons of oil to the pan and heat over a medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until they have released their water and begin to brown, about 6 minutes. Add the onions back to the pan, stir in the salt, pepper, mustard and thyme.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the eggs, egg whites and evaporated milk.
- Sprinkle the cheese into the pie crust. Top with the mushroom-onion mixture and pour the egg mixture on top. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake for 35 minutes or until knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting into 6 wedges and serving.
- Excellent source of: Protein, Riboflavin, Phosphorus, Selenium
- Good source of: Vitamin A, Niacin, Vitamin D, Pantothenic Acid, Calcium, Iodine, Iron, Potassium
Nutrition Facts : Calories 270, Fat 14 grams, SaturatedFat 6 grams, Cholesterol 125 milligrams, Sodium 430 milligrams, Carbohydrate 24 grams, Fiber 2 grams, Protein 14 grams
CARAMELIZED ONION AND SPINACH QUICHE
Caramelized onion and spinach quiche is the perfect breakfast and will be loved by all. Packed with sweet onions, swiss cheese, and all the perfect flavors in a flaky homemade pie crust. This will be on the regular rotation from now on.
Provided by Heather
Categories Breakfast
Time 1h35m
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- In a large bowl, add in flour, salt, cold butter and lard.
- Using a pastry cutter, cut butter and lard into the flour until mixture resembles small pea size shapes.
- Fill a large glass with water and ice. Using a tablespoon measure, spoon in 5 tablespoons of the ice water into the flour and butter mixture. Using a fork or spatula, mix well. You may need to add in more water if still floury and needed. You want the dough to just begin to come together. Do not add too much water.
- Sprinkle flour out onto the counter and spoon out dough on top. Roll around flour so that all sides are covered and bring together into a ball shape. Split dough in half making 2 pie dough balls. This recipe makes 2 pie shells.
- Roll out one half with a rolling pin in a circle until it is larger than your pie plate.
- Gently pick up the crust and place into the plate plate. Make sure it get the dough to lay evenly all the way to the edges. Crimp your edges with your fingers, cutting off any excess if needed.
- Once your pie crust is in the pie plate, place a sheet of wax paper or parchment paper over the top, larger than the actual pie plate. Place pie weights or dried beans over top of the paper and spread evenly over the bottom of the shell, making sure to get all the way to the edges, corners, and sides. Place in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Once finished, remove and let cool until the quiche mixture is ready. Remove the pie weights once cooled down a bit.
- In a large skillet, add in 1 tablespoon of butter and the onion, thinly sliced.
- Turn on medium low and cook for 30 minutes, stirring often. Over the next 30 minutes, the onions will turn a caramel color. Make sure to keep an eye on them and do not turn the heat up. This can be done while the crust is blind baking.
- With about 5 minutes left, add in the spinach and another 1/2 tablespoon of butter. Cook until the spinach has wilted then remove from the heat.
- In a large bowl, add 8 eggs and beat with a fork until the yolks are broken.
- Add in the milk, salt, red pepper flakes, white pepper, and shredded swiss cheese. Mix well.
- Add in the caramelized onions and spinach. Mix until everything is evenly distributed.
- Pour carefully into the blind-baked pie crust and place into the oven to bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until the middle is set and doesn't jiggle anymore.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 slice, Calories 316 calories, Sugar 1.9 g, Sodium 134.5 mg, Fat 22.1 g, SaturatedFat 11 g, TransFat 0.3 g, Carbohydrate 15.3 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 13.6 g, Cholesterol 234.4 mg
GRUYERE VEGGIE QUICHE
This vegetarian quiche is loaded with flavor from the Gruyere cheese, which imparts a deeper richer flavor. You might consider this for a Ladies Luncheon or at a holiday brunch.
Provided by CookinDiva
Categories Breakfast
Time 1h20m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- This quiche has both sauteed veggies and some fresh veggies. Start by sauteing about 1 cup vegetables in a little butter or oil. Set them aside to cool.
- While the veggies are cooling, roll out the packaged pie dough. Sprinkle 1 t. cornmeal or breadcrumbs in the bottom of the baking dish (I like the Pampered Chef 11" round stoneware dish, but you can use a DEEP-DISH pie plate). Fit pie dough into plate.
- Into pie dough, place cooled cooked vegetables (drain first), chopped fresh spinach, then gruyere cheese that has been tossed with 1 T. flour.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together milk, eggs, Bisquick, salt and pepper. Pour over veggies.
- Sprinkle the fresh diced tomatoes and green onions around the edge of the quiche.
- Bake 375 for 45-50 minutes, or until center has puffed slightly and a knife tests clean.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 259.2, Fat 16.6, SaturatedFat 6.4, Cholesterol 127.1, Sodium 271.2, Carbohydrate 16.6, Fiber 1.2, Sugar 1, Protein 10.7
Tips:
- Use a good quality Gruyère cheese for the best flavor.
- Caramelize the peppers and onions slowly over low heat to get the best flavor.
- Wilt the spinach before adding it to the quiche to remove excess moisture.
- Use a deep-dish pie plate to ensure the quiche is cooked evenly.
- Prick the bottom of the pie crust with a fork to prevent it from puffing up during baking.
- Bake the quiche until the center is set and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let the quiche cool for at least 15 minutes before serving to allow the flavors to meld.
Conclusion:
This Gruyère quiche with caramelized peppers, onions, and spinach is a delicious and easy-to-make dish that is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The combination of flavors and textures in this quiche is sure to please everyone at the table. With a flaky crust, creamy filling, and flavorful toppings, this quiche is a surefire hit. So next time you're looking for a quick and easy meal, give this Gruyère quiche a try. You won't be disappointed!
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