- buy a box of pre-made pie crust
- buy the frozen pie crust in the pie tin
- or make your own pie crust from scratch
you will need the following items;
- 4 jumbo eggs
- 1¼ cups heavy cream
- 1 small onion diced
- ¼ to ½ cup of cooked crumbled bacon
- 5 ounce bag of shredded Swiss Cheese
- 2 Tablespoons of butter
- salt and pepper to taste
I use pre made pie crusts and will be giving directions for them...
Pierce crust with fork all over...lots and lots of times as this will let the steam out when baking. I also covers with aluminum foil and fill the pie (over the aluminum foil) with beans to keep the crust from rising up. After 10 minutes remove from oven, take out aluminum foil and bake until golden, could be as little as 6 minutes or more than 10 depending upon your oven. Set aside.
Saute onions in butter until transparent. Beat eggs and cream together, add salt and pepper. Place the cooked onion and crumbled bacon on bottom of pie crust, even spread the shred Swiss cheese over the top. Pour egg and cream mixture over the top. Bake at 375ยบ for 30 to 40 minutes or until quiche is set and is no longer jiggly and can be cut cleanly with a knife.
There's no hard set rule as to what you can and can't put in a quiche. Omit the onions if you don't like them, try various things such as asparagus, mushrooms, ham or broccoli. Just remember to have the items precooked and drained before putting into you quiche!
I use a deep dish ceramic pie plate -mine is by Home Laughlin China Company- better know for it's #1 selling line Fiesta dinnerware...I simply love to bake in it! Now if you use the frozen pie crusts that are already in a pie tin you will need to divide the ingredients as those pie tins are quite shallow and this recipe will make 2 quiches in a shallow pie dish. The pie plate from Portmeirion will also do very nicely- although I've only used mine to make cottage pie- but that's another recipe story ;-)
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