Name: Easy Crustless Asparagus Quiche
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 3 cups Spinach; 1 Tablespoon Butter, (plus extra for greasing); 1 Onion, (peeled and sliced); 2 cloves Garlic, (peeled and finely chopped); 1 cup Cream; 5 Eggs; Pinch of salt; Generous pinch black pepper; 1½ cups Cheddar cheese, (grated); 1 cup Freshly grated Parmesan cheese; 1 cup Sun Dried Tomatoes; 12 Stalks of Asparagus, (woody ends snapped off)

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You certainly won't miss the crust while eating this bad boy of a quiche. The soft texture, that cheesy flavour...oh and on top of that....it's easy to make!!

The ingredients that are packed in this crustless quiche make it taste like a flavour bomb going off in your mouth!

This got me super pumped because when I make a vegan recipe, a vegetarian recipe, a healthy recipe or in this case...a gluten-free recipe, I don't want the emphasis to be geared toward the fact that it's just a gluten-free recipe. I would much rather you make this purely because it looks good if you catch my drift. So let's go through some of the things that make this quiche amazing! Here's the video to see the entire process and then, I break things down below.

Ingredients

Here's the ingredients I used in this mouthwatering and delicious Cheesy Asparagus and Tomato Crustless Quiche:

spinach
cheddar cheese
Parmesan cheese
sun-dried tomatoes
asparagus
butter
onion
garlic
cream
eggs
salt
pepper

Adding Whipped Cream

Queue the cream, please! Whipping the cream into soft peaks and folding it through the egg makes your mixture really thick, light and fluffy which allows the asparagus to sit nicely on top.

Expert tip - did you know there are different stages of whipped cream? You've got soft peaks, medium peaks and stiff peaks. The stiffer the peaks, the better the cream will hold its shape.

Now, it doesn't really matter if you accidentally whip the cream to stiff peaks instead of soft peaks, the quiche will still be great. However; if you are someone who hasn't whipped cream very often, you should definitely focus on making sure you don't overwhip the cream. That's when the cream curdles up and turns into butter, and that will not give the light fluffy result we are looking for.

Take a look at what I mean. I show the difference between whipped cream and over-whipped cream in this Salted Caramel and Baileys No-Churn Ice-Cream post, so feel free to check it out. This recipe is also gluten-free!

Greasing the Pie Dish

I actually greased my pie dish really well and it still was hard to remove from the dish. But I don't want you guys and gals stressing out over trying to remove a quiche that's stuck in the dish. Here's the steps I originally took below and a way to get around a stuck cooked quiche in the dish:

I greased my pie dish with lots of butter.

After I combined the quiche ingredients, I poured them into the buttered pie dish.

Then I placed the asparagus on top before I cooked it.

And even after all that greasing, removing the quiche was a bit of a fiddly process.

Of course, you don't have to remove the quiche, but if you really want to, I recommend that you line your pie dish with baking paper, then spray that baking paper with cooking spray. That way, you'll be 100% certain that the quiche won't stick.

Cutting the Quiche

Whether you decide to remove the quiche from the pie dish or not, I recommend cutting the quiche with a serrated knife. It's SUPER helpful! There is no base to this quiche. And the asparagus is going to be laying on top so that makes the structure of the quiche a little more delicate...so using a serrated knife really helps to get those clean cuts. Be gentle and use the length of your knife when you cut your portions.

Also, cutting the quiche once it's cooled down will also help prevent you from ruining how beautiful this quiche looks. The colder the quiche is, the more firm it will be. From there, you can reheat the quiche once you've portioned it.

Add Plenty of Cheese

Like most quiches, this one has a lot of egg and cream. And these are two very enriching ingredients that give this quiche a wonderful texture. However, they are two ingredients that have a very light, subtle flavour, so they need help. And salt and pepper alone will not do the job.

This is where the cheese comes in. As you read through the ingredients of this recipe, you may think to yourself "wow, that is a lot of cheese", but trust me, you need it. Both the cheddar and Parmesan cheese give an amazing body of flavour to the egg mixture. You may use a sharper parmesan or cheddar, but be careful because if you use an extra sharp cheddar and extra sharp parmesan, you can end up overpowering the flavour of the quiche.

How Long does this Quiche Keep?

This quiche makes for great leftovers and it should keep in the fridge for up to 3-4 days. You can keep it in the fridge for dinner the next day, or you can portion it up and take it to work for lunch.

Do you love egg recipes? Do you want more really good egg recipes? Then you'll want to check out my French Toast with Scrambled Eggs Breakfast post. If you're gluten-free, just be sure to replace the bread I used with gluten-free bread.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read through this post. And thank you, Amanda, for giving me the opportunity to post on your blog. It really means a lot. I really hope you enjoy the recipe.

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