Crustless Quiche - Ham and Cheese (2024)

Crustless quiche is everything you know and love about classic quiches – minus the carbs! While you can put almost anything in it, this ultra easy ham and cheese crustless quiche takes less than 5 minutes to get in the oven, and smells just like Quiche Lorraine.

Keeps perfectly for days, serve it as is, stuff into soft rolls or wraps, crispy burrito style!

Crustless Quiche

If you were to drop round on any given day, there’d likely be some version of crustless quiche in my fridge. This, along with Baked Frittata, are two of my most used fridge clean out recipesbecause they’re both terrific quick dump-and-bake recipes.

This does take 30 minutes or so to bake. But with pre chopped ham and a bag of shredded cheese, it takes less than 5 minutes to get into the oven – and it smells like a Quiche Lorraine when it’s baking!

Add to that the shelf life – it keeps perfectly for up to 5 days in the fridge. Serve it sliced like a quiche OR stuffed into soft rolls, or rolled up into flatbreads or tortillas then pan fried until crispy, burrito style. (Yes, I realise that defeats the “low carb” pitch for this recipe!😂)

What goes in Crustless Quiche

Here’s what you need for this quick ham and cheese quiche: eggs, cream OR milk, ham, cheese and green onions.

Cream vs Milk

Cream gives it a more luscious, custardy texture like everybody’s favourite Quiche Lorraine. Milk gives it a frittata texture – still quite custardy as long as you don’t overcook it, but it doesn’t have the same luxurious mouthfeel you can only get from cream!

If using milk, we need to reduce the amount of liquid used because eggs can’t hold as much milk as it can cream.

Use your adds ins ofchoice!

This recipe is more of a formula than actual recipe. Essentially, whisk together 5 eggs and 1 cup of cream OR 1/2 cup of milk, salt and pepper.

Then pour that into a greased pie tin with ~ 2 cups of whatever add-ins you want (I’ve used ham, cheese and green onions) and bake for 30 minutes until puffed and golden.

I do recommend that part of those 2 cups of add-ins includes cheese!

How to make Crustless Quiche

Here’s how I make Crustless Quiche:

1. Whisk together the eggs, cream or milk, salt and pepper;

2. Put most of the ham, cheese and green onions into a greased pie tin – we hold some back for topping so you get some bits on the surface which looks nice (love the golden cheese crust and browned bits of ham!);

3. Pour in all the egg mixture;

4. Scatter with remaining ham, cheese and onions;

5. Bake 30 – 35 minutes until golden and puffed;

6. Rest 5 minutes then slice!

Note: there is major deflation. So don’t get too excited when you see how puffy it is straight out of the oven. See?

But don’t worry. Deflation in height doesn’t result in deflation of tastiness! 😂

How I serve Crustless Quiche

Being the low-carb, easier version of Quiche Lorraine, it would be a wonderful brunch option with a side salad – choose from this ever increasing collection of Vegetable Sides! For a very simple salad, toss any leafy greens or fresh raw vegetables with my Everyday Salad Dressing, and for a show off option, try this Leafy Apple Salad with Candied Walnutsor this Strawberry Spinach Salad (it is Fabulous with a capital “F”!).

But, as depicted and mentioned above, my favourite way is to make sandwiches and burritos out of crustless quiche. Or just piled on toast. It’s fabulously delicious, cheesy, salty and filling too. Big bonus that it keeps for 5 days and freezes fabulously! – Nagi x

Watch how to make it

More quiche and frittata type things

(With and without the carbs!)

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