Clean Out The Fridge Quiche

For this clean out the fridge quiche I used this-and-that I found hiding on shelves in my fridge. Bet you've got what it takes to throw together a clean out the fridge quiche in your fridge too!

Ingredients:

2 tsps olive oil

1/2 cup diced onion

1 cup diced red pepper (or green or yellow)

1 cup chopped spinach (or kale or any greens)

2 tbsps fresh chopped parsley

2 cups leftover latkes diced (or any cooked potatoes)

6 eggs

2/3 cup milk

2/3 cup shredded cheese (gruyère is good, but whatever you have)

1 tbsp dijon mustard

salt and pepper to taste

a few drops of hot sauce (optional)

1 - 28g scoop unflavoured protein powder (optional)

parmesan to top

3/4 lb store bought pie dough (or make your own)

10' pie plate

This pie dough had been in the fridge a good while so that's where the incentive for this recipe started.

Roll the dough to fit a 10' pie plate, then pinch or crimp the edges. Place shell in freezer for 20 minutes. Reserve any leftover dough (see note at end of this post)

Heat olive oil in a skillet and sauté onion and red pepper until just lightly golden. Remove from heat and add spinach and parsley. Cool in fridge, then spoon into pie shell.

Top the sautéed veggies with diced potatoes. I used diced store bought latkes that weren't very good to begin with but worked well in this quiche. (Those are the things that look like croutons here 🠇)

Whisk the eggs, milk, dijon, hot sauce, salt and pepper together. Also the protein powder if using. Stir in 1/3 cup shredded cheese and pour over the vegetables.

Top with the remaining 1/3 cup shredded cheese and sprinkle with some parmesan.

Bake at 375°F on the bottom rack of the oven for 15 minutes to ensure that you don't have a soggy pie bottom. Then move the pie to the middle rack, turn down the heat to 350°F, and bake another 15-20 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.