'Low Fat' Quiche...

If You Put Vegetables in it it's Healthy Right?! 

So this week, I entered into a little phase I like to name 'The Erratic Girl Phase'. This is basically where I enter into a bit of a meltdown when I'm at home and nothing is good enough. Typical thing's to expect would be thinking I'm fat, my work's not good enough or giving my boyfriend a good telling off when his room isn't tidy enough (I'm not proud to admit that- he's a babe and does everything he can to make me happy!). I'm not a total monster all of the time- I think that the stress of third year just kind of got to me a bit and I needed to have a bit of a venting session. 

Anyway I digress, this week the thing that annoyed me most was the little bit of weight that I seem to have put on since leaving the gym (typical woman eh?!) and I vowed to cut down on high fat food and eat a lot of salad. Ofcourse the moment I solemnly told my boyfriend of this fact I had the biggest craving for quiche. QUICHE. One of the worst for fatty foods there could be! So I decided to make a quiche from scratch but make it 'low fat'. 

What You Will Need:

A Shortcrust Pastry Base- I made one with Packet Mix!

Half a Bag of Spinach

4 Pieces of Bacon- Grilled with the fat trimmed off

4-5 Mushrooms

1 Green Pepper

150ml Skimmed Fat free milk

A good portion of Low Fat Cheese

3 Eggs- Beaten

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees
• Make base (If not already bought!) I blind baked mine for around 10-15 minutes before I added any ingredients just so that it wouldn't go soggy when filling was added
• Fry off peppers and mushrooms in a TEENY bit of oil and then add spinach for last 3 minutes so that it wilts
• Add the eggs and milk together, then add half of your cheese 
• Put the veg and bacon in the base, then pour over egg mixture
• Sprinkle cheese over top
• bake for 30-40 minutes until you can poke a knife in it and it comes away clean

A lot of recipes say to just remove the pastry- that is not quiche. That is a frittata and I ain't in the mood for no frittata- thus I kept the pastry and used low fat ingredients instead. The beauty of this quiche is that a small portion will keep you going for hours without any accompanying sides. So that kind of works if you're cutting down right?!

Cheers M'dears

Jade