September: Additional Meal Main Course

Potato Crust Quiche
with Fruity Cabbage Salad

Ingredients

3 large potatoes
1 pound fresh spinach
8 ounces shredded or grated cheddar cheese, or other type of cheese if preferred
½ cup cottage cheese
1 teaspoon oil
1 medium onion chopped
1 clove garlic (minced or chopped)
1 tablespoon minced fresh basil (1 teaspoon  dried basil)
1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley (1 teaspoon dried parsley)
½ teaspoon black pepper
4 eggs
¾ cup milk

Directions

  1. Boil potatoes with or without skins.
  2. Mash cooked potatoes with ¼ cup milk.
  3. Smooth mashed potatoes into a 9 inch quiche or deep dish pie pan.
  4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  5. Cook spinach and drain as much liquid as possible.
  6. Heat oil slightly and sauté onion and garlic, until soft.
  7. In a large bowl or food processor mix eggs, milk, cottage cheese and spices.
  8. Add onion, garlic and spinach. Blend until smooth and pour into pie shell.
  9. Bake for 40 minutes or until center is cooked. A butter knife inserted into the center should come out clean without egg sticking to the knife. Knife may be moist.
  10. Garnish the top with fresh sprigs of basil, parsley or cilantro. (The mashed potato pie shell will be soft after cooking.)

Possible variations

  • Using the Electric Skillet: prepare as above, except line the electric frying pan or stove top with the mashed potato and pour the spinach and blended ingredients into the pan on top of the mashed potatoes. Cover and cook over low heat for 30 minutes until a butter knife stuck into the center comes out clean. The bottom of the mashed potatoes may be crispy but will taste great.
  • Other vegetables such as peppers, asparagus, Swiss chard, beet greens, broccoli, zucchini, tomato or mushrooms may be substituted, or tofu, beef, ham or chicken that has been precooked.
  • Use a pastry pie shell instead of mashed potatoes, or use leftover mashed potatoes.

Yields 6 servings

Source: From Farm to Table, A Cooking Series, Co-production of WMHT and Cornell Cooperative Extension of the Capital Region

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