This breakfast or brunch pie combines your favorite meat, cheese, and vegetables into one elegant dish.

Its versatility fits a low-fat, or vegetarian lifestyle.

If youre looking for one of ourbest quiche recipes, youve found it here.

Quiche with ham and green onions

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This quiche recipe offers several cheese options and allows you to select from ham, chicken, or crabmeat.

Once youve mastered this easy quiche recipe, try makingQuiche Lorraine, one of the most notable savory pies.

It has crisp bacon bits added to the custard filling and is topped with roasted tomatoes.

pastry crust rolled out in pie plate

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Try ourSpinach Pancetta Quicheits made in a springform pan.

Ingredients

1recipePastry for Single-Crust Pieor1/2of a (15-oz.

112cupsshredded Swiss, cheddar, Monterey Jack,and/orHavarti cheese(6oz.)

crimped pie crust

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Line a 9-inch pie plate with pastry.

Trim; crimp edge as desired.

Line unpricked pastry with a double thickness of foil.

baked pie crust for quiche

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Bake in a 450-degree F oven for 8 minutes.

Bake for 4 to 5 minutes more or until pastry is set and dry.

In a small bowl toss together the cheese and flour.

making quiche filling with eggs, green onions, half and half and ham

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Add to egg mixture; mix well.

Test Kitchen Tip:Use your fingers to evenly toss the flour with the cheese.

This helps the cheese bind with the egg mixture and keeps the cheese evenly dispersed.

cheese and flour in bowls for quiche

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Pour egg mixture into hot, baked pastry shell.

Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

In a medium bowl stir together flour and salt.

unbaked quiche with filling

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Using pastry blender, cut in shortening and butter until pieces are pea size.

Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of the water over part of the flour mixture; toss with a fork.

Push moistened pastry to the side of the bowl.

baked quiche

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Gather flour mixture into a ball, kneading gently until it holds together.

On a lightly floured surface use your hands to slightly flatten pastry.

Roll pastry from center to edges into a circle about 12 inches in diameter.

ingredients for making single crust pastry for quiche

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Wrap pastry circle around the rolling pin.

Unroll into a 9-inch pie plate.

Ease pastry into pie plate without stretching it.

butter and shortening cut into flour for pastry crust

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Trim pastry to 1/2 inch beyond edge of pie plate.

Fold under extra pastry even with the plate’s edge.

Crimp edge as desired.

using fork to mix water into pastry crust mixture

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Do not prick pastry.

Fill and bake as directed in recipes.

Lower-Fat Quiche Variation

Prepare as above, except substitute Oil Pastry for the Pastry for Single-Crust Pie.

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Daily Values: 20% vit.

A, 2% vit.

2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

flattened ball of pastry crust dough

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roll out pastry crust

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using rolling pin to place pie crust in plate

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trimmed pastry crust

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