Crustless Quiche with Spinach

This No Spinach Crust Quiche is an easy and perfect brunch recipe! The savory taste will impress everyone.

Looking for a hearty brunch recipe to impress? Try one crustless quiche! This concept is our favorite for entertaining: It’s deliciously flavorful and filling, with plenty of protein to keep your tummy full all morning. Even better: it’s so easy to conjure! No need to worry about a quiche base: just whip up the filling and pop it in the oven. The Crustless Spanish Quiche is a little miracle: even our 4 year old who is afraid of spinach loves it! Here’s how to make a crustless quiche recipe and customize the filling for your family.

Elements in a crustless quiche

A crustless quiche is a savory egg custard baked without the traditional pastry case. Without a crust, a quiche without a crust looks like an Italian frittata. The difference? Quiche traditionally has more dairy than a frittata. Here’s what you need for the basic recipe for it Crustless Spanish Quiche. The great thing about this recipe is that it even wins against anti-spinach (like our son!). But you can customize it to have the veggies of your choice. Here’s what you need:

• eggs
• oregano, garlic powder, salt and pepper
• Frozen Spinach
• cottage cheese: Whole milk is often used in a quiche recipe, but cottage cheese works magic here! It brings a strong, savory taste and a velvety texture
• parmesan cheese
• Roasted peppers in a jar

A few notes on spinach

This recipe is so easy, all you have to do is combine the ingredients and bake for 25 minutes until puffy and golden! How it works? Here are some notes on some of the ingredients and how they work the magic:

• Use frozen spinach, not fresh. Why? Frozen spinach has already been blanched and is therefore significantly reduced in volume compared to fresh spinach. It also has a chewy, desirable texture: it’s hard to describe, but trust us! Think spinach and artichoke dip.
• Defrost the spinach under lukewarm water. Simply put in a colander and heat under running water! However, we’ve found that some brands of spinach are frozen in blocks: in which case you may need to use a microwave to defrost.
• Important: Squeeze out as much water as possible! This avoids a runny, crustless quiche. While the spinach is in the colander, squeeze it with your hands. The spinach should look like dry crumbs when you’re done.

Variations on Mixtures

You can turn this crustless quiche recipe into hundreds of different flavors based on your preferences! If you like, you can add other flavors like a handful of chopped ham or crumbled bacon. Or you can omit the spinach and use other cooked vegetables. Add ½ cup additional blends to the recipe below, or remove the spinach entirely and substitute about 1 to 1 ½ cups of the blends. Here are some ideas (make sure they are finely chopped):

Note that you want the vegetables to be cooked through as you sauté them so they don’t give off too much moisture as they cook. They need to be finely chopped for good distribution.

Make a crustless mini spinach quiche

Last thing about this spinach-free quiche: Want to make personal-sized versions? You can! Make a mini no-crust spinach quiche with a muffin tin! Here’s what to do:

• Spray a standard sized muffin tin with cooking spray.
• Follow recipe below, but pour egg mixture evenly into 12 muffin cups.
• Garnish with additional red pepper.
• Bake 22 to 24 minutes, until set in the center and golden on the edges. Allow to cool, then run a butter knife around the edges and remove from the muffin tin.

More brunch recipes

Brunch is hip! There is nothing more fun and festive than brunch with family or friends. We originally created this crustless spinach quiche for Christmas breakfast, but now we eat it any time of the year! Here are some tasty brunch ideas:

This crustless spinach quiche recipe is…

Vegetarian and gluten free.