Sunday, December 22, 2019

Bell Pepper, Spinach & Ham Quiche

Found this one on the internet somewhere but I've tweaked it, so saving here to remember how I did it in the future.

Ingredients:
Pillsbury crust (the kind you unroll and put in a pie plate, or make your own)
4 Eggs
Diced ham (Eyeball the amount. I used what I had on hand, thin-sliced smoked lunch meat ham & diced it up)
3 oz Cream Cheese
1/3 C Half&Half
1/2 C grated Cheddar
1/4 C grated Parmesan
Handful of fresh spinach chopped up
Diced Bell Peppers & Onions (Shortcut: buy the premade version of this in the freezer section)
S &P, Garlic-salt, to taste

Directions:
1. Begin by either making a pie crust or placing the Pillsbury one in a pie plate.
2. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
3. In a large bowl beat the cream cheese until soft (may microwave for 20 seconds or so on 50% power to soften it up quickly). Add in the Half&Half and the Eggs--whisk it up. Salt & Pepper to taste.  Add grated cheeses and mix well.
4. In a small skillet sprayed with Pam, saute the diced ham and the bell pepper/onion mixture and toss in some cut-up fresh spinach. Saute just until soft (a minute or two) add s&p and garlic-salt to taste.
5. Stir the veggie mixture into your egg mixture and mix well to combine the two.
6. Pour into your pie crust and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes. If the crust is cooking too quickly place a little foil around the rim of the crust and finish baking. Mixture should be "firm" when it's done baking, not jiggly at all.
7. After you take it out of the oven sprinkle it with a tiny bit more grated Parmesan.
8. Allow it to cool just a little--Enjoy!

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