Gluten and Casein Free Quiche

Whole Foods Bakehouse has a gluten free crust, but it unfortunately has dairy in it. If you live in Seattle, Flying Apron has a gluten and dairy free crust but it is not our favorite. 

Our favorite, as we noted before, is the Bavaria Mills gluten free and casein free crust.  They are absolutely beautiful, reasonably priced and they taste great.  You can purchase them at Savory Moments in Redmond or you can call Mike at  1-360-571-7611 and order them for delivery.  I bought a dozen last time and stuck them in the freezer.

If you live in another part of the country and know of other great pre-made gluten free pie crust, please let us know.

To make your own crust, try this recipe for Gluten and Casein Free Pie Crusts.  I have not tried it but have heard that the Gluten Free Pantry Pie Crust mix is also pretty good

• 1 cup coconut milk

• 4 large eggs

• 2 t ume plum vinegar (if you are regularly cooking dairy free then this should be standard in your kitchen.  It adds a great salty cheese-like quality to cooking)

• 1 minced garlic clove

• 1 t nutritional yeast (optional but strongly recommended as it once again adds a great cheese flavor to casein free food)

• 1 t dry mustard powder

• 1/4 t salt

• 1/4 t pepper

• 1 - 2 green onions, chopped

• 1 8 -9 inch gluten free pie crust (unbaked)

• thinly sliced tomato for the top

Optional add ins - I call these optional, because you can add anything you desire at this point.  For a vegetarian quiche add 2 - 3 cups chopped vegetables.  Meat lovers will love this quiche with some crumbled and cooked GF sausage.  I added Beelers Maple sausage and it was delicious.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

With fork, mix together the coconut milk, eggs, vinegar, garlic, yeast, mustard powder, salt and pepper.  The powdery substances will be a little lumpy but just mix as well as you can.  They seem to dissolve while baking.

For a vegetarian quiche, saute the vegetables over medium heat until softened.  This will only take a few minutes. 

For a meat quiche, crumble and cook the sausage until done.

Add either the veggies or the sausage to the gluten free pie crust, add egg mixture and top with the green onions and thinly sliced tomato.

Bake for 45 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.