Quiche Muffins | Diethood

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

In search of extra satisfying, straightforward breakfast recipes? Attempt sheet pan eggs or a bacon frittata. And if a conventional muffin recipe is extra your velocity, try these do-it-yourself banana walnut muffins.

This recipe turns my favourite spinach quiche into a straightforward riff on egg muffins full of tasty, healthful substances. Mainly, 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 approach to make completely portioned little breakfast quiches. You’re going to like packing these stuffed with your favourite substances!

What Makes These Quiche Muffins So Nice?

• Skip the crust. The perfect half about baking these quiche muffins in a muffin pan is that you simply don’t have to fuss with a pie crust! After all, you might at all times make this recipe with a do-it-yourself pie crust in the event 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’ll retailer the remainder for later.
• Take them on the go. I really like meal-prepping these quiche muffins. They maintain up very well in each the fridge and the freezer, making them an ideal grab-and-go breakfast or snack. See additional within the put up 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!

Elements You’ll Want 

Most of the substances you’ll discover beneath are adaptable, and I embody 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 right down to the recipe card for an entire substances checklist with quantities.

• Quinoa – Cooked quinoa is an effective way to bulk up these breakfast quiche muffins with healthful grains. You need to 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 – Contemporary or frozen child spinach. For those who’re utilizing frozen spinach, thaw and drain it properly beforehand in order that the quiche doesn’t prove 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 got. I additionally toss in some flat-leaf parsley for a pop of coloration and additional taste. 
• Cheese – I exploit a mix of crumbly feta and shredded cheddar, however you will get inventive with the form of cheese you employ on this recipe. Different good cheese decisions for quiche are goat cheese, Swiss, Gruyere cheese, Asiago, and Monterey Jack.
• Eggs – Frivolously overwhelmed.

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 it’s also possible to bake these mini quiches with out a liner. On this case, make sure you give the pan an excellent greasing with cooking spray, first. Now, let’s make these straightforward quiche muffins!

• Cook dinner the quinoa. First, in a lidded pot, simmer the quinoa in water for quarter-hour in order that it’s cooked by means of.
• Cook 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. Be certain to let the combination cool earlier than you add the eggs (in any other case they may scramble!).
• Add the eggs. Lastly, stir within the overwhelmed 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 ideal candy possibility. 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 superbly with a facet of inexperienced salad for lunch. Be at liberty to get inventive and luxuriate in these quiche muffins any time!

Tips on how to Retailer or Reheat Leftovers

• Refrigerate. To retailer, permit the quiches to chill fully, then wrap them individually in plastic wrap. Refrigerate or freeze (see beneath) 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 too can 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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