Zucchini Quiche
This easy cheesy fresh zucchini quiche recipe is ready for the oven in as little as 15 minutes!
Equipment
- frying pan
Ingredients
- 9 inch unbaked pie shell
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 ½ cups thinly sliced zucchini green or yellow
- ½ cup chopped onion
- 1 small clove garlic minced
- 1 ½ cup grated cheese
- 4 eggs beaten
- 1 ⅓ cup milk 2%
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 F degrees
- Prick bottom of pie shell lightly with a fork and bake in preheated oven for 6 minutes.
- While pie shell is baking, heat oil over medium high heat and saute zucchini and onion until onions are transparent (about 3-4 minutes). Add minced garlic and continue to cook for 1 minute more. Remove from heat
- Whisk together eggs, milk, salt and pepper.
- Remove crust from oven after 6 minutes and reduce oven to 350 degrees.
- Sprinkle cheese evenly across the bottom. Next, distribute the zucchini mixture evenly over the cheese. Lastly, pour egg mixture over top, filling the pie shell.
- Bake at 350 until set, approximately 30 to 35 minutes.
Notes
Save time by using a (defrosted) frozen pie shell.
Or, if you have lots of time use your favourite homemade pie crust recipe.
You can also use two prepared pie crusts and roll out to a rectangle to line a fluted rectangle tart pan, like I did!
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