Zucchini Tomato Feta Cheese Quiche – Simple Recipe

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What to make when you have zucchini, tomato, and feta cheese? Ideally something simple, relatively quick, and delicious, right? So, what about zucchini, tomato, feta cheese quiche?!

Quiche is a great dish for so many reasons. It is delicious (an important requirement!), and it is quite elegant, simple, and easy to prepare.

This one is even easier and simpler because I cheated and used store-bought dough. I will eventually prepare a quiche with homemade dough, of course, but I wanted something quicker, this time.

The result was great! Feta cheese, zucchini, and tomato, with some rosemary, go so well together, that I actually baked this recipe twice in one week!

Quiche is very versatile, you can add different ingredients to the filling, according to your preference. It can be served with some cooked vegetables or a simple fresh salad.

Also, you don’t have to eat it only as a main course, you can eat it for breakfast or as an afternoon snack. Quiche is good at any time of the day!

What is Quiche?

Quiche consists of a savory egg custard, made with cream or milk, baked in a pie crust. The filling is often mixed with other ingredients, such as vegetables, seafood, meat, or cheese.

Although many think that Quiche originated in France, because of its name, it is believed that it was actually created in Germany in the Middle Ages in the kingdom of Lothringen. This kingdom was later occupied by the French and renamed Lorraine. Quiche is a French word that comes from the German Kuchen, or “cake”.

The famous Quiche Lorraine was an open pie with an egg and cream filling with pieces of smoked bacon. The cheese was added to the recipe only years later. The dough was made from bread dough, which later evolved into a shortcrust.

Quiche only became popular in England after the Second World War and in the U.S. only during the 1950s.

Quiche Lorraine is so loved that even has a national day which is celebrated on May 20!

Zucchini Tomato Feta Cheese Quiche Recipe Ingredients:

A little bit about the ingredients I used for this recipe. The exact measurements are described in the recipe form below.

Store-bought pie dough: Surely you can prepare your dough from scratch, it will taste even better! But this recipe is meant to be quicker than a recipe in which you also prepare the dough. It is also meant to be simple, so that is why I chose to make it with a store-bought pie dough.

Eggs: One of the most important ingredients of a quiche. After all the quiche base is basically an omelette inside an open pie or tart. I used two big eggs for this recipe.

Cooking cream: Another important ingredient of any quiche! I used 13% fat.

Feta cheese: One of the main ingredients of this recipe! If you are not a fan of feta cheese, you can use another cheese of your preference. I like it in this recipe because it has a nice consistency and it is already salty, so I don’t have to add too much salt to the recipe.

Zucchini: I used one small zucchini.

Tomato: One big tomato is enough for this recipe.

Onion: I used one white onion to help with the seasoning.

Rosemary: It goes really well with the other ingredients of this quiche. It gives a Mediterranean taste.

Pepper: I used black pepper for seasoning.

Grated Cheese: I used it as a topping, so it gives a nice golden color to the quiche, besides a nice cheese taste.

How to make Zucchini Tomato Feta Cheese Quiche:

This is a simple and easy recipe with a delicious result! Here is how you make it:

First, preheat the oven to 200°C/390°F and set the pie dough in a pie tray. Remove the excess dough, otherwise it will burn in the process. Prick the dough with a fork to avoid air bubble formation.

Next, prepare the vegetables. Cut the onion, tomato, and zucchini. The size of the tomato and zucchini does not have to be too small but prefer a smaller size for the onion pieces.

Then, in a frying pan, add olive oil, and the chopped vegetables and fry them until the onion pieces look translucent and the tomato and zucchini lose a bit of water. It is important to take out a bit of water, so it doesn’t wet the dough during the baking process. We don’t want a wet dough.

Add salt, pepper, rosemary, and cream and stir it until the cream loses a bit of water and becomes thicker.

In the meantime, put the pie tray in the center of the oven and bake it for 10 minutes. If you pricked the dough correctly, it should not raise while it is baking for these 10 minutes.

After that, once the filling is ready, spread it around over the dough. Cut the feta cheese into about 2 cm size and distribute the pieces equally around the filling.

In a cup, crack the eggs and beat them with a fork, until the yolk and white are combined. Pour the beaten eggs, spreading them equally around the top of the filling.

Add the shredded cheese on top and bake it in the center of the oven for 30 minutes or until the cheese looks nice and golden.

Your quiche is ready! Serve it with cooked vegetables, a fresh salad, or simply as it is. Enjoy!

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