Spinach and Bacon Quiche

This Spinach and Bacon Quiche is perfect for breakfast, brunch, or dinner. It has a delicate custard filling loaded with bacon, spinach, onion and a scrumptious combination of cheeses! Serve this best bacon quiche for breakfast, brunch, or dinner.

I always tend to serve this delicious spinach bacon quiche recipe for dinner, since I like to keep breakfasts a bit more simple; But if you are looking for more delicious breakfast recipes (which can also be served at dinnertime, let’s be honest!) try my Jimmy Dean Breakfast Burritos, Scrambled Eggs on Toast or my Homemade Sausage and Egg McMuffin! So yummy! 

Why This Recipe Works

• Best bacon quiche recipe. I definitely feel partial to this delicious combination or vegetables, flavors, and ingredients! But the best thing about quiche is it is SO easy to adapt things based off the items you have: use a different cheese, swap out the spinach for kale, etc etc! 
• No soggy crust! It is a definite crime to eat a quiche with a soggy bottom of the pie crust! Don’t do it! The trick to making a delicious quiche without a soggy crust… partially bake the pie crust (AKA par bake) before adding the filling for a delicious flaky crust with no soggy quiche! Follow my recipe for instructions and best tips.

Ingredient Notes

• Homemade Pie Crust Recipe: You are going to LOVE this pie crust recipe. It is my favorite pie crust. It’s an all-butter flaky pie crust (no Crisco!!) and is so so yummy. This recipe makes 2 pie crusts, so keep that in mind. If you don’t have time, you can use a store-bought pie crust. 
• Onion: The chopped onion adds a great layer of flavor and texture inside the filling for this quiche with spinach and bacon. 
• Spinach: Feel free to use fresh or frozen spinach (regular or baby spinach). I used fresh spinach. However, if you have frozen spinach, you may get a bit more liquid in your onion and spinach mixture. You can drain it or cook it off. 
• Bacon: Use what works for you! If you have some fresh bacon, cook it up and chop or crumble it for this yummy bacon quiche. Or you can use frozen, precooked bacon and microwave it and crumble or chop it. You can even use some bacon bits if that’s all you have! Personally, I would opt for traditional bacon over bits but up to you! 
• Cheese: I love using a combination of gruyere cheese and Colby Jack cheese. The combination is so yummy! If you don’t have these cheeses, feel free to use what you have. Swiss cheese and Colby Jack would be delicious, or just use straight Swiss. 
• Eggs: Quiche filling is a combination of eggs, milk and heavy cream. The eggs help to create that custard like filling. 
• Milk + Heavy Cream: Using a combination of milk and heavy cream ensures a creamy and delicate texture to the spinach quiche recipe. 

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Prep and chill the pie crust. Using your homemade crust dough, place it in a 9-inch pie plate. Leave about a 1 inch overhand and flute the edges (that’s the fancy wave you see pictured). Dock the pie crust (prick the dough with a fork about 8-9 times). Chill in the freezer for 20-30 minutes or until firm. Preheat your oven to 425ºF while the crust is chilling. 
2. Blind bake the pie crust. Place a large sheet of parchment paper into the crust and fill with pie weights about 1/2 way up the sides. Bake for 15 minutes at 425ºF. Remove from the oven and carefully remove the parchment paper and pie weights. Return the crust to the oven and bake for 5 additional minutes. Remove from Theo oven and let cool slightly while you prepare the spinach and bacon quiche filling. Reduce oven temperature to 350ºF. 
3. Cook the vegetables. Heat 2 tsp olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Once shimmering, add the diced onion and cook for 7-8 minutes or until translucent. Add 1 1/2 cups chopped spinach and cook until just wilted. Remove from the heat. 
4. Make the custardy quiche filling. In a medium bowl, add 4 large eggs, 3/4 cup milk, 1/2 cup heavy cream, 3/4 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp black pepper. Whisk eggs until smooth. Add in the onion and spinach mixture, the crumbled bacon, and 1 cup of cheese (I do a combination of Colby Jack Cheese and gruyere cheese). Stir until combined.
5. Pour egg mixture into the crust. Pour the custard filling into the pie crust and top with the rest of the cheese.

6. Bake the bacon spinach quiche. Bake quiche for 32-38 minutes at 350ºF. The cheesy spinach quiche is done when the edges are set and the center jiggles slightly (the center still needs to be cooked, it will just slightly jiggle! You don’t want the middle to be under cooked). 
7. Remove and set rest. Remove the quiche from the oven and let it rest for 15 minutes before cutting into it. Serve and enjoy! 

Recipe Tips

Weighing down the pie crust prevents the bottom crust from puffing and the sides from falling down the pie plate. 

When making this quiche, I dock the bottom of the pie dough (I don’t go crazy… maybe 8-10 fork tines on the bottom) AND use the pie weight method. Doing both hasn’t given me any problems, and I’ve made this quiche at least 5 times.

You definitely should par bake the pie crust! Without par baking, the crust on the bottom of the pie dish will be under baked and definitely soggy. Par baking (also known as blind baking) means the crust will be baked and will hold up much better in the oven once the wet quiche mixture is added. 

Be sure to allow the pie crust dough the proper amount of time chilling or else you’ll have a hard time getting the sides of the crust to stay up. 

Sometimes I find that the crust is getting a bit more golden brown than I’d like while the custard quiche filling is still baking. One thing that helps is to wrap top of the crust (the part that is fluted) with strips of aluminum foil so they don’t burn or get over done. 

Variations:

• Add some chopped bell pepper to the skillet with the onions
• Swap out the spinach for chopped kale
• Don’t have bacon? Cook up some ground sausage and add that — or cook up some sausage links and chop into pieces.
• Different cheeses to use: Swiss cheese, Colby Jack cheese, Monterey Jack cheese, gruyere cheese, Cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese, etc. I find using a combination makes things extra tasty. Slice some cheeses and try them together to get your favorite combination! 

Make Ahead, Storing, and Freezing

I would definitely make the pie crust for this spinach bacon quiche ahead of time. Making the crust and the quiche in one day will take longer than 1 hour, which is technically all I give myself to make dinner — ha! 

Store any leftover quiche covered in the fridge for 3-4 days. 

To freeze, let the quiche cool completely and then wrap in plastic wrap then aluminum foil. Store in the freezer for up to 2 months. When ready to serve, remove quiche from freezer, do not thaw before reheating. Place the quiche (being sure to remove the layer of plastic wrap and the layer of foil) in a 350°F oven and bake for 25 minutes or until heated through.

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