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Gluten-Free Crustless Quiche

This is a really forgiving recipe.  It can be made with regular eggs or egg whites, different kinds of cheeses, and more mushrooms, bacon or no bacon.  The recipe that follows is the version I made this morning–it uses egg whites, lactose-free hard cheddar cheese, and lactose-free kefir, to cut down on the allergens, fat, and whining.

Ingredients:

2 cups (16 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese (not the pre-shredded kind–those usually aren’t gluten-free)

1 cup of egg whites

1 teaspoon pepper

16 ounces frozen spinach

2 cups sliced mushrooms

1/2 cup lactose-free kefir

gluten-free cooking spray

McIlhenney’s Tabasco Sauce (It’s gluten-free–it has to be. Nothing protein-based can exist in something that spicy.)

Equipment:

Box grater

2 pie tins

oven

knife (for slicing cheese and mushrooms)

microwave-safe ceramic dish

measuring cup

bowl (for mixing)

large, flat, wooden spoon for mixing

(Note:  if you happen to have a microwave-safe, oven safe bowl, of the expensive sort that I might have inherited from someone’s divorce, you can just use one bowl for the whole thing, and skip the pie tins and mixing bowl.  It makes a thicker pie.)

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 F.  Put a 16 ounce bag of frozen spinach in the microwave to defrost.  (This may take as long as twenty minutes–if you don’t have  “defrost” setting, 30 percent power should do it.)  Shred the cheddar cheese with a box grater.  Measure out a cup of egg whites, and pour the cheese and egg whites into a mixing bowl. Slice the mushrooms and add them in. Measure out 1/2 cup of kefir into the same mixing bowl. Take the spinach out of the microwave and, using a flat wooden spoon, squeeze out as much of the liquid as you can.  (I’m not sure exactly what this does, but every quiche recipe on the internet says that’s what to do.) Add pepper. Mix everything really, really well.  Spray two pie tins with gluten-free cooking spray.  With your spinach-squeezing spoon, ladle the mixture into the pie tins.  Drizzle tabasco sauce over the top.  Put both quiches in the oven for one hour.