Want to know the 100% way to feed your baby spinach? Perhaps you have the perfect baby who eagerly eats any food you offer. But if your fidget jumps around the kitchen, knocking over plates, and demands pies instead of nasty grass, then this recipe is for you. Having prepared a quiche with spinach and cheese, you will watch with emotion as your nimble eats the same herb by both cheeks, simply tasty and beautifully hidden in exquisite pastries. Look at the photo, get inspired. Ready to create magic?
Cooking features
The main thing in preparing quiche with spinach and cheese is to master the technology of preparing chopped dough. In fact, it's not that difficult to do. But first, let’s explain that the dough is called chopped because exactly this action is performed with the butter included in it, but with the help of a knife and quick movements. In no case should the ingredient be kneaded or melted; it can also be ground in a blender. The main thing is that it comes out in the form of separate small pieces.
The butter is thoroughly mixed with flour and salt. Moreover, the latter is necessary not only for taste, but also to ensure that the consistency of the finished dough is crispy and crumbly. Afterwards, you need to break the cooled egg, which will act as a gluing agent. Now all that remains is to form a lump out of it, and then roll it into a thin layer.
It is important to do everything quickly so that the butter does not melt during this time. If the dough starts to shine, then this is a sure sign that this has begun to happen. In this case, the mass must be immediately wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for half an hour to interrupt this process.
Remember that you need to roll out the dough as thin as possible, the thickness of each layer should be about three millimeters. Here are the main features of making quiche pie.
Tips for making a delicious open-faced quiche
This pie recipe is made from frozen dough, but you can speed up the process by using a pre-baked crust.
The taste will change if you add small pieces of chicken, especially smoked chicken.
A completely different option with pieces of ham or boiled sausage.
You can add mushrooms. Forest fruits must first be boiled. Lightly fry the champignons and oyster mushrooms in a frying pan.
Your loved ones will appreciate the baked goods if you add fried sweet peppers or artichokes.
So try, experiment and you will have a magnificent quiche pie on your table.
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Baking the pie
You also need to remember one more important point. Before placing the pie to bake, place it under a press to prevent swelling.
The oven in which the quiche with spinach and cheese is prepared should be preheated to 180 degrees. The pie is baked first for 20 minutes, after which the press is removed and left to cook until done at the same temperature.
Only when cooking is complete can you start pouring and filling it. There are a lot of options, but today we will tell you how to cook quiche with spinach and cheese. An egg is also added to the filling. In this case, cheese and sour cream are used as filling. Having filled the quiche with filling, it is sent to the oven for another half hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Traditional recipe
The traditional recipe for quiche pie is different in that it contains practically no seasonings or spices. And it’s not at all difficult to prepare.
For this we need the following ingredients. For the test:
- 200 grams of flour;
- 100 grams of butter;
- 6 tablespoons of water,
- a pinch of salt.
For the filling take:
- 300 grams of spinach;
- 200 grams of pickled cheese (for example, Suluguni or Adyghe);
- 100 grams of the same product of any hard variety that you have on hand;
- one chicken egg;
- spices and salt - to taste.
To fill, you need to have in the kitchen:
- one tablespoon of sour cream;
- egg;
- 100 grams of hard cheese.
A kilogram of peas or beans is used as a load. The calorie content of quiche with spinach and cheese will be 218 kcal per 100 grams. The ingredients listed will be enough for four servings. It will take about an hour and a half to prepare.
French chicken pie
The uniqueness of the spinach and chicken quiche recipe is that the dough is kneaded from white and black flour. The filling is traditional for open pies - sour spinach and tender chicken fillet.
For the test let's take:
- wheat flour – 150 g;
- rye flour – 80 g;
- chilled butter – 100 g;
- egg;
- ½ tsp. salt;
- 2 tbsp. l. ice water.
The filling will include:
- fresh spinach 100 grams;
- chicken fillet without films and fat 300 g;
- small bulb;
- ½ tsp. salt;
- nutmeg - a pinch;
- vegetable oil 2 tablespoons.
We make the filling from:
- sour cream (20%) – 200 ml;
- 50 grams of hard cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- ½ tsp. salt.
Cooking time – 45 minutes.
Calorie content – 217 kcal/100 g.
If you are watching your diet, pay attention to fresh spinach dishes.
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Fish lovers might be interested in this salmon and broccoli quiche recipe.
Let's prepare it like this:
- The dough was kneaded as for quiche lorena. Cool, wrapped in cling film, for 30 minutes.
- Thoroughly washed spinach was cut into strips. The onion was chopped finely.
- Chicken fillet (already washed and dried with a paper towel) was cut into 1x1 cm cubes.
- In a frying pan in vegetable oil, first fry the onion (3 minutes), then spinach (2 minutes) and fillet pieces (5 minutes). We mix all this constantly.
- At the end, add salt to the filling and season with spices. Stir and set aside to cool.
- A filling was mixed from grated cheese, eggs, sour cream and salt.
- The chilled dough was rolled out into a thin layer. Transferred into molds using a rolling pin. Prick the bottom in several places with a fork.
- The base of the open pie was baked for 5 minutes at 180 degrees.
- Place the spinach and chicken filling on the dried dough. Poured from above.
Bake the quiches at the same temperature for 20 minutes. Serve slightly cooled.
After watching the video, you will get acquainted with another chicken quiche recipe. Mushrooms are used as an additional ingredient.
Cooking process
The recipe for spinach pie is not at all complicated, as any housewife who has already encountered this dish will tell you. First you need to carefully sift the flour along with the salt. In a separate container, break the cooled egg and beat it with a fork.
The butter is cut into cubes, and then the salt, butter and flour are crushed as much as possible in a blender. Only after this should you add the beaten egg to the dough.
If you can’t immediately form a lump, you can add a little water, this should simplify the process. The main thing is not to rush, pour in the liquid gradually: about one teaspoon at a time. The dough should not stick to your hands and be soft. An elastic lump is formed from it, which is wrapped in polyethylene. It should be left in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
After this, the dough is rolled out on the table, the thickness of the layer should be about three millimeters. The baking dish should be pre-greased with vegetable oil; it would be nice if its sides were removable. The rolled out dough is placed on it and the edges are trimmed. You also need to make careful punctures with a fork across the entire surface of your cake.
Beans or peas are poured onto the dough and placed in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about 20 minutes. After removing the load, the cake is baked at the same temperature for another ten minutes.
During this time you should make the filling. You need to drain the excess liquid from defrosted spinach and wait for it to drain. It is mixed with a raw egg, passed through a coarse grater, and one raw egg.
You should also fill it. To do this, break the egg into a bowl, adding grated cheese and a heaping tablespoon of sour cream. According to the quiche recipe, you should put it back in the oven so that the filling has time to brown. Without changing the temperature, bake it for another half hour.
It’s easy to determine if the pie is ready. To do this, touch your finger to the very middle of it. If it does not tremble, but feels quite elastic to the touch, then the pie is ready and you can serve it.
With feta cheese
Another option for making quiche with spinach and cheese is to add tomatoes to it, using the feta variety. This dish will turn out more festive and beautiful, it will be pleasant to serve it at the table.
Here are the ingredients you'll need to make the pie successful. For the test:
- 230 grams of wheat flour;
- 120 grams of butter;
- one egg yolk;
- 0.5 grams of sea salt;
- 60 ml milk.
To fill, take:
- two chicken eggs;
- 200 ml heavy cream;
- a pinch of sea salt.
For the filling you will need:
- 250 grams of frozen spinach;
- 200 grams of feta cheese;
- 100 grams of sun-dried tomatoes in oil;
- a teaspoon of dried oregano;
- two tablespoons of olive oil;
- ground black pepper and sea salt - to taste.
Let's make a delicious pie
This spinach quiche recipe has a few things going for it. First, mix together the salt, flour and butter, cut into cubes. The milk is whisked together with the egg yolks and then poured into the dough.
Having rolled the resulting mass into a ball, put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, wrapped in plastic. After rolling out the dough into a thin layer, place it on a baking dish, the diameter of which should be slightly more than 20 centimeters. The dough is baked in the oven for ten minutes at 180 degrees.
Then let it cool, and during this time make the filling. Heat olive oil in a frying pan with oregano and add defrosted spinach. After salting, simmer for three minutes. Separately cut the feta and sun-dried tomatoes into small cubes and place on plates. To fill, mix eggs with cream and salt the resulting mixture.
The filling is laid out in layers on the cooled base. First sun-dried tomatoes, then feta cheese, and then spinach. After filling everything with a mixture of eggs and cream, place the dish in a preheated oven for half an hour.
Quiche with spinach and salmon
Surprisingly tender pie with a pleasantly crunchy base. It's easy and quick to prepare.
For the test let's take:
- flour – 300 g;
- a spoonful of sugar;
- ½ tsp. salt;
- butter - 150 g;
- 1 egg;
- 2 tbsp. l. ice water.
The filling will include:
- 400 g frozen chopped spinach;
- 300 g lightly salted salmon;
- 1 onion;
- 80 g olives with pits;
- 100 g parmesan;
- 150 g soft cream cheese;
- teaspoon butter;
- 2 eggs;
- salt pepper;
You will also need 2 yolks to grease the inside of the quiche base before baking.
Time – 60 minutes.
Calorie content – 223 kcal/100 g.
Let's prepare it like this:
- Knead the dough according to the usual recipe. Roll out a circle of the desired diameter and transfer it to the mold. Cover with film and place in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Peeled onions were cut into half rings. Fry in butter for 5 minutes.
- Thawed spinach was squeezed out in advance to allow the juice not needed in the filling to drain out. The salmon fillet was cut into 1x1 cm cubes.
- The pits were removed from the olives and cut in half. Parmesan was grated coarsely.
- Spinach was mixed with eggs, cream cheese, half of the grated Parmesan, onions, olives, salmon. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- The mold with the frozen dough was taken out of the freezer. Brush the base of the pie with yolks.
- We laid out the filling. Sprinkle the remaining Parmesan cheese on top.
Bake the quiche at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
Spinach quiche is equally good hot or cold. Moreover, if you need to reheat it the next day, this will not affect the taste and appearance of the open pie.
Quiche on puff pastry
There is a recipe for an open quiche with puff pastry. To implement it, you need to take:
- packaging of unleavened puff pastry;
- 200 grams of fresh spinach;
- 50 grams of watercress;
- three chicken eggs;
- a bunch of onions and green onions;
- 200 ml cream;
- 100 grams of butter;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- 30 cherry tomatoes;
- a tablespoon of flour.
How to cook: preparation
So, I rinse the greens under running cold water.
I randomly chop the onion and all the necessary greens.
I fry onions in butter.
I add spinach, green onions and lettuce. I add some salt, then sauté for five minutes.
Next, I grate the cheese, no matter finely or coarsely.
Roll out the puff pastry on a floured surface.
I grease the mold with vegetable oil. I place a layer of dough in it so that it hangs over the edge of the mold, hugging it over its entire area. In short, the recipe is with a photo. Look, it will be clearer this way. There is nothing complicated in this action.
I combine cream with eggs.
Salt and whisk until a homogeneous mixture is formed.
I cut the tomatoes into two halves. The components are all prepared, I’m starting to assemble the spinach quiche.
