Prosciutto & Gruyere Quiche with Hash Brown Crust
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Prosciutto & Gruyere Quiche with a hash brown crust is filled with creamy eggs, Gruyère cheese, caramelized leeks, peppers, artichoke hearts, mushrooms and prosciutto. A real crowd pleaser and gluten free to boot.
Perfect for Sunday Brunch, Easter, Mother’s Day, a Ladies Luncheon or whenever you feel like it. In fact, if you are a lazy day breakfast maker, you should try our Blueberry Crumb Cake, or Overnight Cinnamon Crunch French Toast or these incredible Mock Eggs Benedict.
Want it vegetarian? Simply omit the meat! Easily customize this potato crust quiche to your tastes!
A DELICIOUS HASH BROWN CRUST QUICHE
Looking for a tasty, go to Quiche that both women and MEN will love!? Why is it that they say “real men don’t eat Quiche” anyway? I’m married to a real man, a “guy’s, guy”, a manly man and he likes Quiche!
I’m thinking if you load it with good stuff and bake it in a hash brown crust you might just have some manly converts. This is a mash-up of my favorite Quiche by the Pioneer Woman and an old recipe I’ve had for years with a hash brown crust.
How to Make a Hash Brown Crust
Start by making your crust, prep a 9 inch spring form pan. Cut out a parchment circle (maybe even slightly larger than bottom of pan, created a “well”) for the bottom and spray with non-stick oil, then cut out a couple of strips and line the edges of the pan with parchment as well. If you spray the pan before hand it will help the parchment stick.
BAKING TIP | You can make this in a deep dish pie pan, you might need to reduce some of your ingredients depending on the size of the pan.
HOW TO BAKE A QUICHE IN A SPRINGFORM PAN
Make sure your springform pan is put together tightly and correctly. Test it before putting anything in the pan by adding a cup of water to the pan.
If it leaks, reposition the bottom and the sides and try again, if it still leaks, you might try lining the pan as a whole with parchment paper, it won’t be as pretty, but at least it won’t leak eggs all over your oven, stove and floor…like mine did one time!
Squeeze the water out of the thawed hash browns, in a large bowl; mix egg, melted butter, onion powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Press into springform pan until it comes evenly up the sides.
Bake hash brown crust in preheated 400° oven for 25-35 minutes until golden brown and crispy.
While the crust is baking, prep your filling ingredients.
HOW TO MAKE PROSCIUTTO (HAM) QUICHE
In a large skillet (I love Lodge Cast Iron pans!), over medium heat, sauté your leeks, mushrooms, and peppers in butter until golden and caramelized, about 10 minutes.
Have you ever cooked with prosciutto before? It’s so yummy, crispy and very delicious, you might like this Pizza Rustica, which is also a prosciutto and egg dish!
Once caramelized, scoot to one side and toss in your diced prosciutto ham and crisp fry it quickly, tossing it to crisp all sides.
In a large mixing bowl, combine eggs, cream, salt and pepper and whisk or blend until smooth and combined.
Next stir in your veggie mixture into the egg mixture. Add your chopped artichoke hearts (marinated or brined, either is fine, just drain first) and last, add your cheese, the mixture will be very thick.
Just to be on the safe side, place your springform pan crust onto a parchment lined cookie sheet, then pour your mixture into the center of the cooked crust.
Immediately place into 400º oven and cook for 45-65 minutes until set in the center and golden on top. If it starts getting too brown, cover the top loosely with foil. Allow to sit for 10 minutes before serving. Slice and serve warm.
CAN I MAKE MY QUICHE AHEAD OF TIME?
Go for it!! You can make this the day before, keep in pan and refrigerate after cooling completely on counter. Cover loosely with foil and heat until warm in 325° oven, about 30 minutes.
QUICHE INGREDIENT ADD-IN OPTIONS
- Add fresh chopped spinach
- Stir 2 tablespoons pesto into mixture before baking
- Use crisp bacon, sliced or cubed ham instead of prosciutto
- Replace Gruyère with Swiss, Sharp Cheddar, Smoked or regular Gouda cheeses (or a mixture)
- Half & half in place of cream
- Omit meat for a vegetarian quiche
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Equipment
Ingredients
HASH BROWN CRUST
- 16 ounce frozen hashbrowns thawed and squeezed dry
- 2 tablespoons butter melted and cooled
- 1 large egg beaten
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Pepper to taste
QUICHE
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2-1 cup white or baby Portabella mushrooms washed and sliced
- 2 small small leeks or1 large, rinsed and sliced thinly
- 1/2 small red pepper washed and diced
- 6 oz artichoke hearts marinated or brined artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
- 8 slices prosciutto ham or bacon, or other ham, diced small
- 8 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Pepper to taste
- 2 cups Gruyere cheese grated, or substitute Gouda, Swiss, Cheddar
Instructions
For the Crust
- Preheat oven to 400°. Prepare a leak-proof springform pan by spraying well with spray oil, then lining with parchment paper (cut out a circle for bottom and strips for sides. Spray again.
- Thaw and squeeze out water from hash browns using paper towels. In a large bowl, mix hash browns, beaten egg, melted (cooled) butter, onion & garlic powder, salt and pepper. Mix well and press into springform pan, on the bottom and up the sides. Bake for 25-35 minutes until golden and crispy, remove from oven until quiche prep is done.
For the Quiche
- In a large fry pan, saute the leeks and red peppers in the butter for 10 minutes or so, add the mushrooms and saute for another couple minutes. Push veggies to one side of pan and add chopped prosciutto and crisp cook quickly. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.
- In a large mixing bowl, add eggs, cream, salt and pepper, mix well until creamy. Stir sauteed veggies, artichoke hearts, cheese and prosciutto into the egg mixture, it will be very thick. Place your crust on a parchment cookie sheet (just in case it leaks) and pour egg mixture into crust.
- Immediately place into preheated 400° oven and bake uncovered 45 minutes. Cover loosely with foil and continue to bake another 10-20 minutes until golden brown and firm in center. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.
- May be made ahead of time, cooled completely, covered and refrigerated. When ready to reheat, cover with foil and place in 325 degree oven for about 30 minutes, until heated through.
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I measured my springform pan and it was 10”! So mystery solved and the quiche turned out great, with a smaller amount of the egg mixture since the crust only went an inch high on the sides. It was delicious! Thanks for your prompt reply. This is an impressive quiche to make for guests! I’ll make it again and use more hash brown mixture.
YAY! I’ll have to add that caveat in the instructions! Thank you for your kind words!
Sadly, a good bit of the egg mixture leaked out when using a springform pan. I’m grateful for the recommendation to bake it on a rimmed baking sheet with parchment! Has anyone tried making this in a regular pie plate?
So glad that my tip worked well for you! Some springform pans are not leak-proof. And yes, you may bake in a regular pie plate, but I would recommend a deep dish pie plate and don’t overfill it, you might even be able to split into two smaller pie plates.
The crust didn’t come up very far on the sides, so I wasn’t able to use the full amount of the egg mixture. I didn’t want it to go over the crust. I weighed the hash browns to get a perfect 16 oz, so I’m puzzled as to why it didn’t go clear up my 9” springform pan? It’s still baking, so I don’t know how it’s going to turn out. It sure looks and smells good though! Any thoughts? Maybe next time use 24 oz?
Hi Sandra,
Hmm, that is strange, I’ve used 16 ounces in the past, maybe you made it a bit thicker than I did? I agree, I wouldn’t have put all of the egg in either. But if you feel like you made it thin enough and it still didn’t fit, then next time I would use more. I hope you love it, it’s one of our favorites!
Kathleen
Can this be made ahead and frozen?
It sure can Terri! I believe I have the details on how to do that in the post.
We loved this quiche so much! The hash brown crust was absolutely delicious and the flavors were top notch!
This was a great brunch quiche and made alot! So good!
Great quiche for brunch. It’s a complete meal with the hash brown crust.
I made this for dinner and we absolutely loved it! It’s delicious comfort food suitable for any meal of the day!