Cottage Cheese Crustless Quiche
This Cottage Cheese Crustless Quiche is easy and delicious! This versatile recipe is perfect for breakfast or dinner. Just add your favourite quiche ingredients to a smooth and creamy cottage cheese and egg base, and you have a tasty crustless quiche ready in less than 1 hour.
If you’re looking for a quick breakfast or dinner idea, this Cottage Cheese Crustless Quiche is it!
About this recipe:
This Cottage Cheese Crustless Quiche is just like a classic quiche but without the addition of a pie crust, making it so simple to prepare and quick to enjoy! 1 cup of cottage cheese is blended together with 6 eggs to make a creamy and smooth base to which you can add many delicious ingredients. And the addition of the cottage cheese makes for a more sturdy quiche while also providing extra protein.
Versatile and Delicious!
The best thing about this recipe is how versatile it is, there are so many flavour options! Just add 1 cup total of your favourite quiche ingredients. I’ve listed some tasty options below that you can try. And if you like things really simple, you can just bake the base as is with no extra ingredients.
QUICHE FILLINGS: Remember it is a TOTAL of 1 cup of additions.
- onions: green onions, shallots, purple, red onion or white onion, or even caramelized onions
- tomatoes: chopped cherry tomatoes or any type of tomato
- mushrooms
- Swiss chard or fresh spinach
- bell pepper
- cooked potatoes and sweet potato
- asparagus
- broccoli
- cooked ham or Canadian bacon
- cooked bacon (make sure to use crispy bacon)
- crumbled cooked sausage (breakfast sausage is great!)
- a couple tablespoons of Parmesan cheese, feta cheese or goat cheese
Cottage Cheese Crustless Quiche Recipe Tips
- COTTAGE CHEESE: Use whole milk (full fat) cottage cheese or 2% or 1% (just DO NOT use dry curd).
- EGGS: Use large eggs.
- CHEESE: Most types of cheese will work for this: cheddar cheese, mozzarella, marble, Monterey Jack, Swiss cheese, or gruyere cheese
- PREP THE PAN: Use an oil cooking spray to lightly spray a 9 inch baking dish (like a pie plate).
- LEFTOVERS: Store any leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
- Want to make them into muffin sized egg bites? <– Follow these instructions here.
Serving Suggestions:
Cottage Cheese Crustless Quiche
This Cottage Cheese Crustless Quiche is easy and delicious! This versatile recipe is perfect for breakfast or dinner. Just add your favourite quiche ingredients to a smooth and creamy cottage cheese and egg base, and you have a tasty crustless quiche ready in less than 1 hour.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Oven
Ingredients
Cottage Cheese Crustless Quiche Base:
- 6 large eggs
- 1 cup whole milk cottage cheese (see tips)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup grated cheese
Optional Ingredients: about 1 cup TOTAL combined:
- chopped green onions
- diced tomatoes
- diced mushrooms
- chopped spinach or Swiss chard
- diced bell peppers
- minced cooked ham or sausage
- chopped cooked potatoes
- chopped asparagus
- chopped broccoli
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
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Prepare a 9 inch baking dish (like a pie plate) by spraying lightly with oil. Set aside.
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Use a food processor or hand blender to combine the eggs, cottage cheese, salt and pepper. Blend until smooth.
- Stir in the shredded cheese and any extra ingredients of your choosing. You can add any additional ingredients up to 1 cup TOTAL (not including the cheese) (see the list above for ideas).
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Stir.
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Bake for 45 minutes. It may take longer depending on how many optional ingredients you have added. You’ll know it’s done when the centre is set, and not jiggly, and the edges are golden brown.
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Serve immediately.
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