Spinach Quiche

Spinach Quiche

I havent been cooking a whole lot due to my kitchen remodel but this has taught me to innovate dishes which can be whipped up with bare minimum and one such dish that I have been repeating is My Spinach Quiche. So here goes:

Serving Size: 4 people

Ingredients:

4 eggs

1/2 cup of whole milk

Onions chopped -1

Spinach-1/4 cup chopped fresh or frozen

Jalapeno- 1 whole with seeds

Seasoning -I used “Elote” seasoning you can use any

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Salt to taste

Cayenne powder- 1 tsp

Garlic cloves-4-5

Sour dough bread – 2 slices chopped up

Butter- 1/2 stick chopped into cubes

Pepper jack cheese slices- 2-3

Preparation:

  1. Firstly whip up eggs and milk in a bowl and keep aside.
  2. Sauté garlic, onion, spinach and jalapenos in olive oil for 5 minutes
  3. Sprinkle salt, cayenne and elote seasoning
  4. Start layering your baking dish with pieces of sourdough bread at the base
  5. Then add a layer of sautéed spinach onion on top
  6. Next coat this with a layer of egg-milk mix
  7. Layer with pepper jack cheese
  8. Repeat
  9. Top layer must have pieces of sour dough bread and egg mix
  10. Finally add a layer of cheese and spread the cubes of butter on top
  11. Bake in the oven at 375 C for 20 minutes.
  12. Enjoy with a slice of sour dough bread toast or simply eat it plain!
Vegan Meat balls in a tomato sauce.

Vegan Meat balls in a tomato sauce.

I have always looked at meat balls in a sauce and wanted to create the same exact vegetarian or vegan version of it. So here goes:

Ingredients for the spinach balls:

1 cup of spinach finely chopped

1/2 cup potato cooked really well

Spices- turmeric, salt, cayenne, garam masala or curry powder, coriander and cumin seeds crushed-all 1/2 teaspoon

Rice flour- 1tablespoon

Oil for frying- any

Preparation:

Take a big bowl, add all your spices and mix well, add chopped up spinach and toss then throw in the well cooked potatoes and mix with your hands to make a dough. Let it rest in the fridge for a half hour. Once you take it out prior to frying them add 1 tablespoon of rice flour and mix well again. Rice flour gives you that golden brown surface.

Take a frying pan, add oil and you could either deep fry if you like it really golden brown or you could shallow fry and it still tastes delicious.

Ingredients for the Sauce:

Onions- 2 large chopped

1 tsp Ginger garlic paste or 1/2 inch of fresh ginger and 5 cloves of garlic

Green Chili- 2

Tomatoes- 4 diced

Oil

Salt to taste and 1 tsp of turmeric powder and curry powder

Preparation:

Place a pan under medium flame and saute ginger garlic in 1 tablespoon of oil and as soon as garlic starts to turn golden, throw in chopped onions, green chili’s and diced tomatoes along with the spices and salt and let it cook down with a lid to a pasty consistency. Blend this to a sauce with 1/4 cup water and cook for another 5 minutes until simmer and then transfer the spinach balls.

Garnish with cilantro!