100 things #4 Hearty Vegetable Bacon and Quinoa Quiche

[cornerofmadness]

Well I'll get the banner later since right now my internet is barely running and won't let me get the code....

This one is from my Diabetic Living magazine so yes, I finally put up a diabetic recipe



Hearty Vegetable, Bacon & Quinoa Quiche

Serves 6

½ cup dry quinoa
8 oz sliced fresh mushrooms
1 cup loosely packed, coarsely chopped fresh spinach
½ cup sliced, halved leeks
4 slices bacon, crisp cooked and crumbled
1 cup refrigerated or frozen (thawed) egg product
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1 12 ounce can evaporated fat-free milk
½ cup swiss or havarti cheese shredded

1. preheat over to 350 F, coat a deep 10-inch pie plate with non-stick cooking spray
2. rinse quinoa. Using rubber spatula spread quinoa over the bottom of the pie plate
3. in a medium bowl, stir together mushrooms, spinach, leeks and bacon. Spread mushroom mixture evenly over the quinoa
4. in a large bowl whisk together eggs, egg product, evaporated milk, shredded cheese, ½ tsp salt, ½ tsp black pepper, pour into the pie plate (it will be very full, I suggest having a baking sheet under it)
5. bake 55-60 minutes until brown on top and set in the center.

Calories – 288, total fat 12 g (4 saturated), 571 mg sodium, 15 g carbs, 20 g protein


Notes – I wasn’t sure I liked the chewy quinoa crust then realized in my supreme intelligence I forgot to add the milk so that might be a factor (no moisture to cook the grain).

You can mix this up a little. For instance, leeks are ridiculously expensive right now so you could substitute in chives, scallions, shallots, onions, you get the idea. Personally I might want to put in portabella mushrooms or skip entirely since they go bad so fast and there’s just me eating this. I’d be good with extra spinach.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

This sounds interesting (i.e., yummy)'

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was but i seriously do not like the mushrooms in it. one day later and they are tasting spoiled. ANd I would remove any fatty bits of the bacon. It turns mushy...

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Ewwwewww.

[caffeinified.livejournal.com]

Oh this looks yummy

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was pretty good but I didn't like the shrooms since they went bad SO fast then started flavoring everything else

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea! I adore quinoa, and I love quiche, and the combination of the two is perfect - and much healthier than using a pre-made crust with all that shortening in it, which is what I usually end up doing. I usually use thick-sliced baked deli ham in mine instead of bacon (lean and tasty), and sometimes throw in canned mushrooms - in fact now there are some canned portobello ones that are actually pretty good. (We are terrible about letting fresh ones go bad when we buy them, so we compomise with canned most of the time, even though they aren't nearly as good.) I made a quiche last week with ham, shrooms, and some lightly steamed fresh asparagus that came out really well.

One question- why the combination of the egg beaters AND regular eggs? Or is that supposed to be an "Either - Or" thing- last time I put more than 4 or 5 eggs in a quiche, a large part of it ended up on the floor of the oven, burned to a crisp, so I was wonderin'...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was pretty good. I didn't care for the mushrooms and I wanted a bit more spice (but i usually do with quiches)

I don't know. that's how it was written in the diabetic magazine. maybe to decrease cholesterol? Frankly it was a bit much to fit in the pie pan. it might havebeen an either or situation and they mistyped it

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

I usually season mine with some dried minced onion, some red pepper flakes, and a couple of shakes of either nutmeg or Mrs. Dash, depending on what kind of goodies I have put in it (I.e. a salmon quiche would get Mrs. Dash. ham probably nutmeg.) Comes out pretty tasty - the red pepper flakes give it some zing.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah i've tried that (also with garlic) but it's still a bit blah. I put hot sauce on ths one after the fact