Broccoli Cheddar Quiche

Gone are the days of “real men don’t eat quiche” – thank goodness! Today’s awesome quiche recipe, sure to be loved by men and women (and kids), comes from Tali of the new and improved More Quiche, Please blog.

Kosher by Design broccoli quiche

When I was 16, I made an important culinary discovery: Broccoli-cheddar quiche.

It wasn’t just that it instantly became one of my favorite foods — it was that I felt confident enough to serve it to my friends when they came for Shabbos.

Quiche with cheddar cheese? On Shabbos? That’s right. My four siblings and I were all raised as vegetarians, and I’ve now got a vegetarian kitchen of my very own.

As a kid (and especially as a teenager), I was all too aware that my family’s Shabbos menu was different than what everyone else was serving. No chicken soup, no deli roll, no meatball appetizers. So I developed something of a “veggie complex” — what if the friends I invited over didn’t like our food?

But then came the glorious day that I opened Mollie Katzen’s Enchanted Broccoli Forest and decided to give her broccoli quiche a whirl. After I tasted it for the first time, I felt up to hosting my whole class.

I’ve made this quiche countless times since, and there’s never any left. It’s so good that, for several months when I working full-time in Washington, D.C., I’d make a quiche on Sundays and have some for dinner every night of the week.

There are two ways to make this recipe: The easy way, using a frozen pie crust, and the “potchke” way, baking your own crust. If you’re in a rush or just don’t have the patience, you can go straight to the second part of the recipe, where I talk about the filling.

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Comments

  1. Yum! Can’t wait to try this – I’m always looking to expand my quiche repertoire.

  2. Mmm, this looks lovely. Although we are not vegetarians, I like to make unusual food – not necessarily the traditional shabbos fare – and my kids sometimes give me grief. Good to know I’m not alone! 🙂

    • You’d think that after being embarrassed over our not-so-traditional Shabbos meals as a kid, I’d now make all the classics every week. Ironically, I consistently go for the “weird” Shabbos foods instead. Go figure.

  3. Pissaldiere – or as my kids call it “Pizza Quiche”:

    Saute 2 c. onions and 1 clove garlic minced in 2 T. olive oil. When onions are soft, add 1 T. dried basil and 1 t. salt. Pour into bottom of 9 in. deep dish pie crust.

    Mix together 1/3 c. Parmesan and 3/4 Mozzarella. Sprinkle 1/2 of mixture on top of onions. Scatter 1/4 c. sliced black olives over that.

    Mix together 4 eggs, 1 c. milk, 1/4 t. dried mustard and 1 T. flour. Pour over pie. Sprinkle the rest of the cheese over that and then arrange thinly sliced tomato over the cheese decoratively (don’t overlap!). Bake at 375 for 45-50 minutes until set.

  4. Chana Esther Fogel says

    Thank you so much, this is very helpful

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