Quiche Muffins | Diethood

These simple quiche muffins are savory, tacky mini crustless quiches baked in a muffin tin! They’re the right mild breakfast or lunch, and so they even make a tasty appetizer at events. Customise the filling along with your favourite add-ins! 

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This recipe turns my favourite spinach quiche into a straightforward riff on egg muffins full of tasty, healthful substances. Principally, I’ve made a muffin-sized model of quiche florentine, with spinach and gooey cheese plus some nutty quinoa within the combine. Baking these crustless quiche muffins in a muffin tin is SO handy. It’s a fast, mess-free, and customizable method to make completely portioned little breakfast quiches. You’re going to like packing these filled with your favourite substances!

What Makes These Quiche Muffins So Nice?

• Skip the crust. The very best half about baking these quiche muffins in a muffin pan is that you just don’t must fuss with a pie crust! In fact, you would at all times make this recipe with a selfmade pie crust when you’d like. However I at all times simply fill the paper liners with quiche batter and bake!
• Bake them in a muffin pan. Scale up the recipe and bake the muffins in batches. You’ll have some to eat now, and you may retailer the remaining for later.
• Take them on the go. I like meal-prepping these quiche muffins. They maintain up very well in each the fridge and the freezer, making them an awesome grab-and-go breakfast or snack. See additional within the submit for serving concepts and storage particulars.
• It’s completely customizable. I preserve these quiche muffins vegetarian, however be happy to alter up the veggies, change the cheese, or add completely different meats. How about an American breakfast-style egg muffin? Or a Western omelette-themed quiche muffin? Yum!

Substances You’ll Want 

Most of the substances you’ll discover under are adaptable, and I embrace some notes and substitutions. So far as add-ins go, be happy to swap them out to make these quiche muffins precisely how you want them. Scroll all the way down to the recipe card for a whole substances record with quantities.

• Quinoa – Cooked quinoa is an effective way to bulk up these breakfast quiche muffins with healthful grains. You should use white, pink, black, or tri-color quinoa. An alternative choice is to make use of cooked and drained lentils or millet.
• Olive Oil – Or your oil/fats of alternative for sautéeing.
• Onion – I like a thinly sliced, delicate onion, like yellow onion or shallot. Sliced inexperienced onion works, too. 
• Spinach – Recent or frozen child spinach. In case you’re utilizing frozen spinach, thaw and drain it effectively beforehand in order that the quiche doesn’t end up watery.
• Garlic – Finely minced. I like the flavour of contemporary cloves finest, however you should use jarred minced garlic if that’s what you’ve. I additionally toss in some flat-leaf parsley for a pop of colour and additional taste. 
• Cheese – I take advantage of a mix of crumbly feta and shredded cheddar, however you may get inventive with the type of cheese you utilize on this recipe. Different good cheese selections for quiche are goat cheese, Swiss, Gruyere cheese, Asiago, and Monterey Jack.
• Eggs – Flippantly crushed.

Tips on how to Make Quiche Muffins

Right here’s a fast overview of the recipe steps. I prefer to line my muffin tray with paper liners first, however you too can bake these mini quiches with out a liner. On this case, be sure you give the pan a superb greasing with cooking spray, first. Now, let’s make these simple quiche muffins!

• Prepare dinner the quinoa. First, in a lidded pot, simmer the quinoa in water for quarter-hour in order that it’s cooked via.
• Prepare dinner the veggies. In the meantime, sauté the onions in a big pan till they’re softened. Add the garlic and wilt within the spinach. Don’t overlook to season with salt and pepper.
• Mix. Add the veggies to a bowl with the cooked quinoa, cheese, and parsley. Make certain to let the combination cool earlier than you add the eggs (in any other case they could scramble!).
• Add the eggs. Lastly, stir within the crushed eggs. Divide the quiche filling between the lined wells of a 6-well muffin tin.
• Bake. Bake the quiche muffins at 375ºF for 35-40 minutes. Take away from the oven, cool, and serve!

What to Serve With Quiche Muffins

I’ll typically bake a batch of fluffy, creamy quiche muffins to serve at brunch. They go nice with a facet of plain yogurt and fruit, or tacky hashbrowns and crispy air fryer bacon. This blueberry banana bread or cottage cheese pancakes make an awesome candy choice. And I at all times make a pitcher of mimosas for the desk!

On some other day of the week, quiche muffins pair simply as properly with a cinnamon dulce latte within the afternoon as they do with a banana kiwi smoothie within the morning. Quiche additionally goes fantastically with a facet of inexperienced salad for lunch. Be at liberty to get inventive and revel in these quiche muffins any time!

Tips on how to Retailer or Reheat Leftovers

• Refrigerate. To retailer, enable the quiches to chill utterly, then wrap them individually in plastic wrap. Refrigerate or freeze (see under) primarily based on what you want. They’ll final for as much as 4-5 days within the fridge. 
• Reheat. To reheat, microwave the quiche muffins for 30-60 seconds or till they’re scorching all through. You can too heat them coated within the oven.
• Freeze. Double-wrap the quiches in plastic wrap and freeze them for as much as 2 months. Thaw them within the fridge earlier than having fun with chilly or reheating.

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