Goat Cheese Quiche

If you’re a instrumentality of cooking pinch goat cheese, this quiche is simply a awesome summation to your collection—right alongside immoderate of my different favourite goat food recipes.

What You Need to Know successful a Nutshell:

Here are nan cardinal things to support successful mind erstwhile making this spinach and goat food quiche:

• Crust options: While I made my goat food quiche utilizing a homemade pastry crust, you tin usage a store-bought premade pastry ammunition arsenic well. If you take to make your own, it tin beryllium made up and frozen. If preferred, you tin usage a gluten-free pastry crust.
• Creamy custard base: This isn’t your mean quiche. Unlike astir recipes that usage milk, this goat food quiche look uses dense pick to create a custard that’s other rich | and velvety. The consequence is simply a filling that’s exceptionally soft and creamy.
• Let it rest: The quiche mightiness look a small soft successful nan halfway erstwhile it first comes retired of nan oven, but it firms up arsenic it cools.

How To Make Goat Cheese Quiche?

This caramelized bulb goat food quiche look comes together successful a fewer easy steps. While it looks impressive, it’s rather approachable—especially if you prep nan crust ahead. Let maine locomotion you done really to make it:

1. Gather your ingredients: You’ll find nan afloat database of ingredients successful nan look paper below. Below are a fewer adjuvant notes:
   • Goat Cheese: Buy already crumbled goat food to prevention connected time. Alternatively, you tin besides usage herbed goat food that you tin find successful astir supermarkets.
   • Pie Crust: If you’re making your ain crust (which I highly urge if you person nan time), you tin prep it a fewer days ahead, screen it tightly pinch agelong film, and support it successful nan freezer until you’re fresh to usage it. Store-bought is perfectly good too, particularly erstwhile clip is tight.
   • Fresh aliases stiff spinach: I utilized caller spinach that was antecedently washed and spin-dried (a awesome clip saver!). You tin usage an adjacent magnitude of stiff (and thawed) spinach, but make judge to region nan excess liquid earlier adding it into nan filling. If preferred, you tin omit utilizing spinach and spirit nan caramelized bulb pinch a tablespoonful of chopped caller thyme.
   • Optional additions: While my look for my goat food quiche only uses a operation of caramelized onions and spinach, you tin adhd ¼ cup of drained sun-dried tomatoes, sauteed aliases roasted mushrooms, aliases a fistful of thinly sliced prosciutto into nan mixture.

2. Make nan pastry dough: Start by mixing together nan sour pick and crystal h2o successful a mini bowl. In a nutrient processor, harvester nan flour, sugar, and salt, past adhd acold butter. Pulse a fewer times until nan food is incorporated into nan flour. Pour successful nan sour pick substance and beat again until nan mixed clumps together. 

3. Let it rest: Turn it out, shape it into a 4-inch disk, wrap it up pinch agelong film, and transportation it into nan fridge for astatine slightest an hour—or overnight if that useful amended for you.
4. Roll and style nan crust: When you’re fresh to bake, fto nan mixed beryllium retired for 10 minutes truthful it’s easier to roll. Roll it into an 11-inch circle connected a lightly floured surface, past cautiously transportation it to a 9-inch solid tart pan, mildly pressing it into nan bottommost and up nan sides.. Tuck immoderate excess mixed nether itself to create a neat edge. If preferred, utilizing your thumb and scale digit connected 1 manus and nan knuckle of your other scale finger, mildly pinch nan separator to shape a fluted pattern. This optional measurement is simply a mini touch, but it gives nan quiche a lovely, classical look. Cover it and spot it successful nan freezer for astir 15–20 minutes truthful it holds its style erstwhile baking.

5. Blind cook nan crust: While nan crust is chilling, preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C). Once chilled, statement nan crust pinch parchment insubstantial (or aluminum foil) and capable it pinch pastry weights (or you tin usage dried beans for illustration I did). Bake for 30 minutes, past region nan weights and parchment and cook for different 5 minutes until nan edges are lightly golden. Set it speech to cool a bit. (No request to move disconnected nan oven.)
6. Caramelize nan onions: While nan crust bakes, make caramelized onions—heat oliva lipid successful a ample skillet complete mean heat. Add your sliced onions and navigator them slowly—this takes astir 15–20 minutes, but it’s worthy it for that heavy caramelized flavor. 

7. Add spinach: Add babe spinach leaves and navigator conscionable until wilted, astir 5–6 minutes more. Let nan substance cool somewhat earlier using.
8. Mix nan custard: While nan quiche filling is cooking, whisk together nan eggs, dense cream, salt, and capsicum successful a mean vessel until afloat incorporated. 

9. Assemble nan quiche: Layer nan crumbled goat food evenly complete nan crust. Top pinch your bulb and spinach mixture, past move nan custard complete everything, ensuring it’s evenly distributed.
10. Bake: Carefully transportation your chevre quiche to nan oven and cook astatine 375°F (190°C) for 30–35 minutes. The edges should beryllium set, and it’s wholly okay if nan halfway has a flimsy jiggle—it will decorativeness mounting arsenic it cools.
11. Cool and serve: Let your spinach goat food quiche beryllium connected nan antagonistic for astir 15 minutes earlier slicing. It will beryllium easier to trim and serve, and nan flavors will settee nicely. Enjoy it lukewarm aliases astatine room temperature.

Aysegul’s Expert Tips:

While this goat food and spinach quiche look is beautiful straightforward, I’d for illustration to stock a fewer tips that tin thief make nan process moreover easier and guarantee your quiche turns retired perfectly each time:

• Do not skip nan unsighted baking: This measurement is basal for avoiding a soggy bottom. Make judge that nan pastry crust is afloat baked earlier adding nan filling.
• Glass vs Metal Pie Plate: This look was tested utilizing a solid 9-inch pastry dish. If you are utilizing a metallic pastry plate, cheque nan doneness of nan crust 5-10 minutes earlier nan suggested baking time. Consider utilizing immoderate foil astir nan edges if nan crust starts to brownish excessively accelerated earlier nan filling is set.
• Using store-bought pastry crust: If you opt for premade stiff pastry crust, fto it beryllium astatine room somesthesia for astir 10–15 minutes, conscionable until it’s soft capable and travel nan baking instructions arsenic written. You don’t want it to beryllium excessively warm, aliases it whitethorn suffer its shape.
• If nan halfway looks a small soft, that’s expected: When nan quiche comes retired of nan oven, nan mediate whitethorn look somewhat undercooked. That’s wholly normal—it will proceed to group arsenic it cools connected nan counter. Just springiness it astir 15 minutes earlier slicing.

What to Serve it With?

While this spinach and goat food quiche is cleanable connected its own, you tin easy move it into a brunch feast by pairing it pinch 1 of nan dishes below:

• Salad: A elemental greenish crockery for illustration my Spring Mix Salad aliases Boston Lettuce Salad makes a delightful pairing that turns this crockery into a ray yet satisfying meal.
• Fruit: If you are serving it for brunch brace it pinch caller consequence aliases a elemental breakfast consequence salad for a refreshing contrast. You tin besides service it alongside my Yogurt Parfait topped pinch caller berries for a ray and colorful addition.
• Other Baked Goods: A batch of my Almond Flour Blueberry Muffins aliases a portion of my Zucchini Bread adds a saccharine statement to nan dispersed and makes nan full repast consciousness other special.

Other Goat Cheese Recipes You Might Like:

• Beet Goat Cheese Salad
• Baked Goat Cheese Dip

The “all food pastry crust” portion of this quiche is adapted from Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook (affiliate link).

Photos by Tanya Pilgrim.