Quick Crustless Paleo Quiche by Tina Turbin

This week’s post is a guest post by Tina Turbin at PaleOmazing. She has dozens and dozens of wonderful paleo recipes, many of them suitable for the low-carb lifestyle as well. In this post, Tina is presenting her Quick Crustless Paleo Quiche recipe:

“I have a variety of different quiche recipes which I’ve created yet nothing is better sometimes than a very quick and simple quiche recipe, which this one is. My quiche recipe contains just 5 ingredients while really packing in a protein punch thanks to wonderful eggs and bacon, not to mention good-for-you fats. Whether you’re on a keto diet or a paleo diet (like I am), you’ll also appreciate the tremendous dose of good fats that you get out of this recipe from the coconut milk and of course the bacon.

When you are purchasing your ingredients for any of your recipes always be sure you choose high quality ones. When choosing bacon be sure and look for hormone-free, when it comes to eggs always get guaranteed free-range eggs and if possible also get organic coconut milk. Quality of ingredients truly makes a world of a difference in your recipe’s outcome.

Enjoy making this recipe and when it’s ready to serve try pairing it with one of my paleo breads or paleo muffins, or even some stir fried veggies or fresh fruit. Perfect for weekend brunch!”

 

Tina’s Notes

When eggs are used in any recipe and not specified in terms of size, always use large and NEVER use jumbo. The jumbo eggs can turn your muffins into wet mush, your cookies goop, and on and on. Always use room-temperature eggs.

This recipe is excellent the next day heated and served with any type of salsa or sliced avocado. Yum!
 

Elviira’s Notes

This recipe calls for paleo-friendly Daiya cheese, which was completely unknown to me. After taking a look, I found the lengthy ingredient list: filtered water, tapioca flour, expeller pressed non-GMO canola and/or safflower oil, coconut oil, pea protein, salt, inactive yeast, vegetable glycerin, xanthan gum, vegan natural flavors, lactic acid, (vegan, for flavor), spices, garlic, titanium dioxide (a naturally occurring mineral), yeast extract. Does this sound natural to you? Not for me, and personally, my recommendation is that only if you don’t definitely tolerate dairy, you can use Daiya “cheese” if you want. However, regular dairy cheese is a far healthier and more natural option if you use dairy. Anyway, with paleo, isn’t the purpose to eat clean, natural food rather than processed junk? Moreover, with regular cheese, you can reduce the amount of carbs even further. The lowest carb count for this quiche you’ll get with coconut milk and regular cheese. By the way, heavy cream is lower in carbs than regular milk.

I made this quiche with regular shredded Cheddar cheese and raw milk as I tolerate dairy. There is a small “milk bar” near us that sells raw milk. The place is a School of Food and Agriculture; they also have cattle there. We are lucky to buy our raw milk from there. I often make viili from raw milk (didn’t manage to make yogurt yet, for some reason it always turns out viili even if I use yogurt as starter!) or then homemade cheese (for which I’m going to post a recipe in the future). Wikipedia claims that viili is a drink but they lie; in reality Finnish viili is thick like yogurt and you eat it with spoon. The texture is stretchy and if you are not careful, the viili will swiftly escape from your spoon back to the cup. I guess it doesn’t want to get eaten…?

But back to the quiche. I was very pleasantly surprised how delicious it is! It’s not only satisfying, it tastes amazing. Seriously, one of the best quiches I’ve tasted. Thank you, Tina, for the great recipe!

The photos in this post are mine, so you can see how the quiche looks when made with regular cheese and raw milk.

 
Quiche made with coconut milk and Daiya “cheese”:

Nutrition information	Protein	Fat	Net carbs	kcal
In total:	117.4 g	217.6 g	38.5 g	2582 kcal
Per serving if 6 servings in total:	19.6 g	36.3 g	6.4 g	430 kcal

 
Quiche made with coconut milk and Cheddar cheese:

Nutrition information	Protein	Fat	Net carbs	kcal
In total:	135.4 g	225.9 g	11.6 g	2620 kcal
Per serving if 6 servings in total:	22.6 g	37.6 g	1.9 g	437 kcal

 
Quiche made with raw milk and Cheddar cheese:

Nutrition information	Protein	Fat	Net carbs	kcal
In total:	135.4 g	209.5 g	13.7 g	2482 kcal
Per serving if 6 servings in total:	22.6 g	34.9 g	2.3 g	414 kcal

 

Tina’s Bio

Tina Turbin‘s award-winning site, PaleOmazing.com houses many of her recipes and researched articles. She supports and writes about the benefits of the Gluten-Free, Paleo-ish, Keto, and Lower Carb inclined diets, as well as optimum lifestyles, and key women’s issues. She also founded GlutenFreeHelp.info, voted #2 .info site in the world over 6.7 million other .info sites. Tina has released numerous award-winning eBooks, hundreds of articles, is a mother of three and also carries an additional title of award-winning children’s author of Danny the Dragon Meets Jimmy.
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