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Healthy Recipes for Dinner
Cheesy Vegetable Quiche
Healthy recipes for dinner definitely include this cheesy vegetable quiche, especially a boon if you have laying hens.
The great thing about having chickens is you get eggs.
The problem with having 23 hens is you get a lot of eggs every day.
We're solving that problem by selling the extra eggs we can't eat.
That helps cover the cost of the feed plus a little extra for the expense of the chickens.
But even with selling them, we now usually have a large supply of eggs on hand (some of them are cracked or unusually large or dirty, and we keep those).
Everyone started getting tired of scrambled eggs, so I have come up with this healthy recipe, one of our favorite healthy recipes for dinner.
The great thing about healthy recipes for dinner like this healthy recipe is you can throw in whatever frozen vegetable you have on hand, and while French cut green beans or chopped broccoli is prettier, even the regular cut frozen green beans will work.
Here's the recipe:
Healthy Recipes for Dinner
For the Cheesy Vegetable Quiche Crust
Preheat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit
Make a crispy crust with this 11-Inch Round Quiche Pan with Removable Bottom
- 2 cups of flour (I usually use whole wheat flour that I have ground fresh)
- One half teaspoon of salt
- nine tablespoons of coconut oil
- three tablespoons of butter
- 5 to 6 tablespoons of water
My mom swears you should always use Crisco Shortening for your pie crusts, because it makes a flakier crust.
She's an expert pie maker, and I'm sure she's right about the shortening, but I prefer a combination of coconut oil
and butter, such as 9 tablespoons of coconut oil and 3 tablespoons of butter for the crust of this quiche, one of our favorite healthy recipes for dinner.
The coconut oil is far healthier, and the butter not only is delicious, but easier on the body as it is more natural and easier to digest than margarine.
Put the flour into a bowl, add the salt and stir.
Then cut in the margarine, butter or shortening. When it resembles coarse crumbs, add the water until it just sticks together.
Because I am using freshly ground flour, my piecrust dough is always sticky, so I lay a sheet of parchment paper on my bread board, set the dough on it and then lay another sheet of parchment on top.
Then I roll the dough out flat.
Make individual quiches with these 4 Inch Round Tart/Quiche Pans
To get the piecrust into the pie pan, you have to roll the crust onto your roller, and then set the dough into your pan, unrolling it bit by bit.
Then if you want, you can pinch the sides into a design.
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The Filling For Cheesy Vegetable Quiche
You will need:
- Six eggs
- One-third cup of sour cream
- One-third cup of buttermilk
- 1 cup grated cheese (I usually use the Mexican blend of four cheeses, but any cheese will do)
- 2 cups frozen veggies
- One half teaspoon salt
- One fourth teaspoon garlic
In a medium sized bowl, beat the eggs and add the sour cream, buttermilk, salt and garlic.
Mix well and then add the veggies and cheese. I always buy my cheese shredded in bulk and keep it in the freezer.
Because my cheese is always frozen, I add it last.
Put your cheesy vegetable quiche in your preheated oven and bake it for 15 minutes.
Then reduce the heat to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and bake your cheesy vegetable quiche for an additional 30 minutes.
The quiche is done when a butter knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
This makes a large quiche that will feed five people with a little left over.
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