Quiche with spinach, bacon and Gruyere
In need for a creamy quiche that is full of flavor? Then you found the best recipe for this quiche with spinach, bacon and Gruyere cheese. Fry the bacon and bake the spinach in the fat. This gives the vegetables a delicious flavor. And you can taste it!
Equipment
- A conventional oven is used. When using a convection oven (with air fan) decrease the temperature with 30 °F / 20 °C
- Colander
- Wok
- Spring form 26 cm diameter
Ingredients
- 6 sheets savory pie dough
- 75 grams bacon bits
- 1 shallot finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic squeezed
- 100 grams semi sun-dried tomatoes cut in half
- 50 grams hazelnuts coarsely chopped
- 800 grams fresh spinach with adherent moisture from washing.
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 eggs size L
- 500 ml crème fraîche
- 150 grams Gruyere grated
Ingredients you need per step are listed below the step in Italic
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
- Cover a spring form with the savory pie dough. Fold the edge over and make a nice pattern (for example with a fork).
- Bake the bacon for 2 minutes in the wok so that some fat is released
- Add the shallot and stir-fry for about 2 minutes until the shallot is glassy.
- Add the garlic, semi sundried tomatoes and hazelnuts and stir-fry for half a minute.
- Add half of the spinach, shrink and then add the rest of the spinach.
- Bake everything until all the spinach has shrunk. Season with salt and pepper
- Drain in a colander (otherwise the filling will get too wet).
- Place the filling at the bottom of the quiche.
- Mix the eggs with the crème fraîche and the Gruyère until well mixed.
- Pour that on the vegetable filling.
- Put the quiche in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
- Cover the quiche with some aluminum foil (otherwise it will become too dark and bake for another 20 minutes)
- Remove the quiche from the oven and remove the aluminum foil. The quiche is wonderfully warm but also cold.
Nutrition
Calories: 591kcal | Carbohydrates: 24g | Protein: 26g | Fat: 46g | Saturated Fat: 21g | Cholesterol: 226mg | Sodium: 511mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 16275IU | Vitamin C: 55mg | Iron: 8mg
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