Spinach Quiche is ready to bake in under 15 minutes with fresh spinach and jack cheese, the fancy sounding Quiche Florentine made EASY!
Baked Breakfast Recipes are perfect for feeding a group so that everyone can sit down to their eggs all finished at once. For your next holiday try Ham and Cheese Croissant Breakfast Casserole, or Egg Bacon and Cheese Bagel Bake.
Sabrina’s Easy Spinach Quiche Recipe
This Spinach Quiche recipe is an easy version of Quiche Florentine, made with a store bought pie crust. Since many pie crusts are sold in 2 packs, you can even make a dessert pie as well and surprise your family with it later! This savory breakfast will be a hit with the whole family, and it’s a great way to sneak some vegetables onto the kids’ plates (hey, it’s PIE for breakfast after all!)
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup milk
- 4 eggs
- 8 ounces shredded jack cheese
- 4 cups fresh spinach
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 pie shell , 9 inch deep dish unbaked (frozen)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Add all the ingredients except for the pie shell in a large bowl and whisk it together well.
- Pour the ingredients into the deep dish pie crust.
- Top with foil and bake for 50 minutes, remove foil and bake an additional 10 minutes.
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About this Recipe
Spinach Quiche (Quiche Florentine) is a home run breakfast recipe for the whole family, because it takes one bowl and minutes to mix together. Just make sure to preheat your oven first, because you might be waiting for it to finish when you are already done with the super easy prep for this recipe!
Chef’s Note: The perfect cheese
Jack cheese works great if you want something neutral but not quite as flavorless as mozzarella for the kids to enjoy. You can also make this with cheddar or provolone or perhaps even a Swiss cheese to mix things up.
Another fun cheese combo is a mixture of mozzarella (for texture) and red Leicester (my favorite cheese in the whole world) – the test of this recipe was out of this world fantastic. The red Leicester is crumblier than mozzarella, so the two together work for the creaminess of the quiche.
You can also both grate the cheese and include it in larger chunks that way most of it melts into the mixture but you also end up with nice pocket of cheese in the quiche too.
Recipe Pairings
- You can make a complete brunch by serving this quiche with an Easy Fruit Salad and Sausage Pancake Muffins.
- Breakfast meats like bacon or sausage go great on the side. Or you can also chop up the bacon or sausage and add it to the recipe if you’d like.
- You can serve the quiche with a side salad or roasted vegetables. Veggies like mushrooms taste wonderful served on the side or on top of the breakfast pie.
How to Store
- Serve: Do not leave Spinach Quiche at room temperature longer than 2 hours.
- Store: You can store the breakfast an airtight container or wrapped tightly for up to 4 days in the refrigerator.
- Freeze: Cooked or uncooked quiche freezes well, wrapped tightly, for up to 2 months. A whole quiche can be heated in the oven at 375 from frozen for 30-40 minutes. Another great way to store cooked quiche is to wrap the individual slices, then they can be heated as needed in a toaster in just about 7 minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Use whole leaf spinach for quiche because using the frozen and shredded variety can become gritty or it can cause the egg custard to not be as smooth as if you use the fresh leaves.
You can absolutely use a homemade pie crust for this recipe if you have time. It is easy enough and I make it in the food processor, but if you use a premade one you can cut down on your prep time significantly. Plus, it has a built in cooking vessel and you can just toss it out when you’re done.
If you want to make this into a Crustless Spinach Quiche just triple the spinach and chop it up first. This recipe works well as is with the pie shell supporting it, but without the crust you need a bit more bulk throughout the pie.
Most recipes for Spinach Quiche look like all spinach all the way through. This quiche allows for the filling to stay creamy and rich and follows the patterns of Thomas Keller who makes a spinach quiche at Bouchon restaurant that also has less spinach in it.
Absolutely! If you want to freeze it, just freeze it on a cookie sheet as flat as possible. Once frozen put it in a plastic bag that you remove as much air from as you can. To bake, cover with foil and bake for 1 hour at 375 degrees. Then uncover and cook and additional 10 minutes.
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Delicious!
I made it with no crust, just olive oil in the (glass) pie pan. Used pepper jack and sharp cheeses. Also, added sausage crumbles and chives.
PS: 1 cup fresh spinach weighs about 1.1 oz.
Thanks for the tip Cat and for the kind review.
I didn’t believe this would work and it was fabulous! Frozen crust, 4 C packed fresh baby spinach and the rest. I used Cabot white cheddar, light mayo, evaporated milk, and omitted the salt. We will be making this again. Thank you so much!
Loved your feedback and You’re welcome Kim! Thanks for the five star review.
I’ve made this at least 7 times
So easy and delic
The recipe calls for a frozen pie crust. Do you Not thaw the crust first?
Thanks for asking. Yes, do not thaw first.
So easy and delicious!! This is a keeper.
Thank you Laurie for your kind words.
Can’t believe how easy this is to make and so delicious!
Right?!! Thank you for the 5 star review Kerri.
Excellent and easy to make. Used mozzarella and cheddar cheese
This took a lot longer to cook and the crust in the bottom was undercooked. It tasted good and I’ll probably make it again, but tweak it a bit.
Just delicious! For kids to eat something with the color green it tells you a lot!!!
Great recipe! Sometimes I play with the cheeses- different types or a little less than called for (purely based on what’s on hand!). I’ve added olives, or chopped sun dried tomatoes or (today- sautéed mushrooms: use ‘m or lose ‘m!) and I’ve even used chipotle mayonnaise in place of plain (no discernible) difference. The recipe is perfect the way it is- yet so flexible too. Thanks!
This looks delicious ?. When buying the package of spinich, how may ounces should the package be to get 4 cups?
It was a great quiche. My partner loved it too.
You listed 4 cups of spinach in the recipe for spinach quiche. What should the approximate weight be for 4 cups of spinach. Thank you.
Great recipe. Have to make for every holiday.
You don’t need to thaw or bake pie crust first?
Delicious! I made it just like your recipe, except added one more egg! Thank you so much!
This will be my “go to” quiche!??
So glad you enjoyed it Sharon!