• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Recipes
    • Meal Time
      • Breakfast
      • Meats & Main Dishes
      • Soup, Sandwich, Salads, & Sides
    • Snacks
      • Appetizers & Snacks
        • Appetizers
        • Snacks
      • Beverages
      • Breads & Spreads
    • Desserts
      • Brownies & Bars
      • Cookies
        • Cookies
      • Cakes, Pies, & More
      • Candies & Sweets
  • House to Home
  • DIY
  • Celebrate
  • Connections
    • Blogroll
    • Printables
    • I’ve Been Featured
    • Link Parties
  • Random
  • Nav Widget Area

    • Bloglovin
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest

A Pinch of Joy

Eat Healthy, Do it Yourself, Live Well, Have Fun.

Ham and Cheese Mini Quiche

 Ham and Cheese Mini Quiche without crust -- A Pinch of Joy

This crustless Ham and Cheese Mini Quiche is low on the carb scale – like 3 grams of carbs with 12 grams of protein.  Healthy enough for every day and deliciously handsome and tasty enough for company!

Ham and Cheese Mini Quiches work very well as a make ahead and freeze till needed dish.  Great for overnight guests!  Breakfast fit for royalty in a flash and no fuss.  Or thaw one or two overnight and warm in the microwave for a quick breakfast before work or heading off to school.  These cozy little quiches also make a nice dinner with a crisp salad on the side.

Nutmeg is frequently used in Swedish cooking particularly. And often for custard type dishes in other cuisines.  I’m always a little startled when I see it in a savory dish since I associate it with sweet desserts.  And my family is always startled by the taste. It dominates the savory for us so I tend to leave it out.  (And Wheels has some Swedish ancestry!)   Try it– you may like it. The Swiss cheese has a good, somewhat tangy, flavor, but if  available try substituting Guyere or even Havarti.   We love the taste of this.  I even like it cold the next day!   Or better,  with the refrigerator chill knocked off by 15 seconds in the microwave.

Prep time is relatively quick.  Unless you run out to the garden to get a couple of green onions and get sidetracked – ahem.  I use prediced ham which saves time.  Either buy the package of diced ham or make your own purchased on after holiday sale and diced, then frozen in 1 cup packages.

Baking time  really does depend on the size of the quiche.  The mixture gives a clear reading with the knife inserted in the middle.  When it is done, the knife comes out clean and won’t leave you guessing.  This time I used ramekins that held just over 2/3 cup of mixture ready for baking and had five quiches.  (Note: this will double the number of carbs and amount of protein in each serving.)  They took 18 minutes in my oven.   Standard muffin tins hold ½ cup in each opening, but since we are allowing for  rise of the mixture they are only filled about 2/3 full.  That’s between ¼ and 1/3 of a cup of quiche mixture.  Baking in a muffin tin will produce between 10 -12 quiches.  That’s eyeballing and not measuring what goes in each muffin cup – ‘cause who has time for that!  Sometimes my eyeball is working and everything evens out at 12 – other times it’s 11.

Ham and Cheese Mini Quiche
 
Print
Prep time
20 mins
Cook time
20 mins
Total time
40 mins
 
Healthy enough for every day (low carb) and deliciously handsome and tasty enough for company (make ahead and freeze till needed)!
Author: A Pinch of Joy by Charlene Vance
Recipe type: Breakfast
Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • 4 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 cup cottage cheese
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons of flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg, optional
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ cup shredded Swiss cheese
  • ¾ cup diced ham
  • 3 tablespoons thinly sliced green onions
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375
  2. In large bowl combine the first seven ingredients, the fold in cheese,ham, and onion.
  3. Grease muffin pan OR spray with cooking spray. Fill each cup about ⅔ full of quiche mixture.
  4. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until knife inserted in center of quiche comes out clean
  5. Cool 5 minutes before removing for removing from pan.
  6. To freeze: Bake and cool as above. Place in large resealable plastic freezer bag and freeze for up to three months. Before using, thaw in refrigerator overnight. Preheat oven to 350 and transfer into greased baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 14 minutes until heated
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 quiche Carbohydrates: 3 Protein: 12
Wordpress Recipe Plugin by EasyRecipe
3.5.3208

I’m so glad you stopped by today!   Be sure to follow A Pinch of Joy so you don’t miss a thing!   Subscribe by email  on the sidebar  or follow on Facebook, RSS feed, bloglovin’  twitter  or   pinterest    If you found this helpful or inspiring please share below!  I’d love to have you along on this journey!

Save

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Related posts:

Cheesy Egg and Sausage Bake
Ham and Cheese Pinwheels
How to Make a Boiled Omelet
Overnight Oatmeal
Egg n Bacon Cheesy Melt
Fritatta with Arugula, Portabello and Feta
Struessel Topped Sweet Potato Casserole
Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwich with apple

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Breakfast

Primary Sidebar

Welcome! I’m Charlene. I love to share quick and easy recipes, whatever I’ve learned in our last DIY project – anything that helps make life easier, better and more fun!! I hope you will find inspiration and add a pinch of joy to your day!

A Pinch of Joy on Pinterest

Follow on Bloglovin

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Looking for Something?

Footer

Browse posts by topic

12 Days of Christmas appetizer apples Bacon bread Breakfast Budget Friendly candy casserole cheese chicken chocolate Christmas Cream Cheese Crockpot desserts DIY eggs fruit Gardening ground beef Halloween holiday Holidays home decor Home decorating lemon low carb lunch Main Dish Make Ahead Freezer Cooking makeovers Meat dishes no bake Organization Party pasta Quick and easy Random Thoughts on This and That Roundup Salad slow cooker Soup Thanksgiving Vegetables

A Pinch of Joy Out’n About

 

 

The photos and text posted on A Pinch of Joy are protected by copyright. Please feel free to share one unaltered photo per post with credit to A Pinch of Joy and a link to the specific blog post. If you want to share any part of the text, whether in part or in full, please contact me before doing so. Thanks!

© Copyright 2016 · Pretty Lifestyle WordPress Theme by: PDCD

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.