Quiche is considered old-fashioned French fare, but similar crusted custards date back to 14th Century England. Our quiche recipe is rich, but it can also be healthy to eat, provided you don’t devour the whole thing! It’s chock-full of great ingredients like asparagus, creamy goat cheese, milk, thyme, and onion. While a store-bought pie crust will work, we recommend making your own crust with real butter, flour, salt and water.
This Goat Cheese Asparagus Quiche is perfect for the Spring and early summer when Asparagus are at the farmer's markets.
Author: Salty Fig
Recipe type: Brunch
Yield: 1~10" Quiche
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Salty Fig Pre-Baked Pie Crust, (omit the sugar), use half the dough and freeze the remaining for some other yummy treat. Or make two Quiche and freeze one for another day.
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup shallots, minced
- 2 bunches Asparagus, sliced into 1-inch pieces, on the bias, blanched
- 3 oz goat cheese
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 5 eggs
- 1 Tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt, Kosher
- Black pepper, fresh ground
Method
- Preheat oven to 375ºF
- Make the Salty Fig Pre-Baked Pie Crust Recipe. Pre-Bake the crust as directed.
- While the crust is pre-baking. Heat the olive oil in a small skillet until medium hot, add the shallots and sauté until translucent.
- Combine the milk, heavy cream, eggs, thyme, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl, whisk until frothy.
- In a cooled pre-baked pie crust place the blanched asparagus and goat cheese, pour the egg mixture over the asparagus and goat cheese.
- Place the quiche in the 375ºF preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 325ºF and bake for 30 minutes until the center of the quiche is set.
I’m convinced! I’ll start making my own pie crust again. Thanks for sharing!