Saturday morning, we woke up to a light layer of new snow and strong winds. While the snow kept falling and Nick used his snow plow to clear off the driveway, I got working on breakfast.
I had heard of using leftover cooked brown rice as a “crust” of sorts, but I hadn’t tried it for myself.
After making a casserole earlier in the week, I found myself with 2 cups of cooked brown rice in the fridge, just waiting to be used.
I had my doubts – rice as a crust? – but it actually worked!
Brown Rice Crusted Quiche
Crust:
- 2 cups cooked brown rice
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
Filling:
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 cup steamed broccoli
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Mix crust ingredients (rice, egg, cheese) together and press into pie plate.
- Bake crust 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden and egg is set.
- While crust is baking, whisk together eggs, cheese, milk, and seasonings.
- Once crust is ready, place broccoli on top of crust and pour egg mixture over top.
- Bake 25-30 minutes or until eggs are set and top is starting to brown.
And hey! This is my first post in our new kitchen : ) Took long enough, huh?
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That looks delicious, and oh so good. I feel like spinach makes dishes beautiful with that awesome green color, no?
This looks great! What a clever way to use brown rice.
Looks like you’ve got some great natural light in the new kitchen! I need to make more dishes like this for breakfast on the weekend. I always fall back to oatmeal, even though I’ve got the time to make something different.
I do too, usually, but I just had to use that brown rice! It was nice to find a new way to use up leftovers.
How many servings does this make? Do you think I would be able to make it in individual ramekins?
We sliced into 8 pieces, but we each had 2 pieces each morning (so it served us both for 2 mornings – Saturday and Sunday).
I think it would be awesome to do individually!
Thanks!
The snow looks so beautiful outside of your new house! :) And the quiche looks amazing as well! YAY for the 1st new kitchen post, looking forward to many many more!
Thanks :) Me too!
Brandi this is the best idea ever! I love using leftover rice as a crust, amazing! We always have leftover rice or grains, I’m totally doing this next time!
Yum I love this idea! Looks so warm and comforting for a snowy weekend day too :)
What a fabulous idea!! I love quiche but hate that the crust isn’t very good for you. But crustless quiche just isn’t the same. This is a great alternative!! :)
I am definitely going to have to try brown rice as a crust soon! The snow on Saturday was nice–just enough to be pretty but then it melted :)
That’s really cool! I have never heard of that before, but the quiche looks fantastic!
WOW, this looks amazing, Brandi!! I love the idea of brown rice as crust, and broccoli is my favorite…
definitely starred in my reader, I will be making this! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome! Let me know if you try it :) We really enjoyed it. Although Nick did say it would have been better with meat :)
I love creative uses for leftovers. We always have a ton of rice on hands, and it would be nice to depart from rice balls :)
Congrats on working from your new kitchen!
Oh me oh my, I’m bookmarking yet another Branappetit recipes!!
Hooray! :) Let me know if you try it!
I just sent this recipe to my mom as she always has leftover rice and currently too many eggs in the fridge! i’m sure she’ll love it!
yay! I hope she likes it ;)
Very creative. I like that idea and it makes me think it might work with other things as well – like maybe a wheatberry or quinoa crust.