Time for another round of fabulous Meatless Monday posts with myself & Tina Muir Please check out all of the great recipes from your hostesses and the link ups below.
Today I am bringing you a twist on the regular quiche recipe by using Spaghetti Squash as the crust to up the nutritional value and decrease the fat and calories. This recipe is gluten free, vegetarian and can be vegan if you omit the cheese. Hope you enjoy! It takes some time to prepare but trust me, it’s worth it.
“Squiche” w sundried tomatoes & spinach
Recipe Type: Lunch or dinner
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Serves: 3-4
Spaghetti squash “quiche” w sundried tomatoes & spinach
Ingredients
- 1 spaghetti squash
- 2 oz Sun dried tomatoes (not in oil)
- 4 oz fresh spinach
- 3 eggs & 3 egg whites
- 2 oz Goat cheese (optional)
- 2 tbl Parmesean cheese grated
- salt, pepper, garlic powder to taste
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 400 degrees
- Slice squash in half vertically and scrape out seeds with a spoon
- Place flesh side down in a glass dish with 2 inches of water
- cover with plastic wrap and microwave 10-14 min depending on size squash
- Allow to cool & scrape out “spaghetti” and drain in colander to remove excess water
- Spread into a pie pan (sprayed with Pam)
- Sprinkle on parmesean cheese, salt, pepper & garlic and bake a 400 degrees for 45 minutes until crust starts to brown
- Meanwhile, prepare filling:
- finely chop or add to food processor: sun dried tomatoes and spinach-set aside
- whisk together eggs and egg whites with salt, pepper & garlic
- Add veggies to crust, then pour on egg mixture & sprinkle on goat cheese if desired
- Bake a 375 for 40 minutes until set
What’s your favorite type of quiche? Do you like to eat left over’s for breakfast?
I laughed when I read squiche 🙂
I thought it was cute 🙂 It is so good. Even got my husband the carnivore to try it
Hehe squiche. This has alllll sorts of goodness in it! I would probably sub the goat cheese for cottage cheese or greek yogurt, but mmmmmmm
It does! Hope you give it a try!
Sounds delicious! I would never have thought to use spaghetti squash as a crust for something. I really want to try this one. And I love that you can probably add whatever veggie/cheese you want to make it different each time. Broccoli and cheddar are probably my favorites for quiche.
It worked so well! You can definitely use any veggie but since I did broccoli last week I wanted to mix it up.
HAhahaha love it! This sounds awesome! So clever! Love your invented word too, I think it will catch on 😉
Hope it does catch on-it was so good!
I LOVE quiche and I can’t wait to try this squiche recipe! Looks SO good!!!
It was really good and came out so well. I just ate the leftovers for breakfast 🙂
I’m trying this–I’m a huuuuge fan of squash!!
It was so good I just ate the leftovers for breakfast!
Love the name “squiche” so fun! This sounds yum, I might leave out the spinach, but I love the idea of the rest, delish!
Great! I hope you will try it
This looks amazing! I love spaghetti squash, I love what you did with it! I have had it for breakfast but never thought to make a “quiche” out of it!
I think you will love it!
I loooove quiche. I enjoy getting the cheesy ones from Panera every once in a while, but I’ve surprisingly never tried making it before! This one sounds really good…I love goat cheese!
This is way better than Panera!
This may be our best one yet! My hubby loves spaghetti squash so this will be perfect. We have another family coming to stay with us for a week and will be making this dish for sure! Great pcitures too!
Thanks! Hope you and your hubby like it. I really thought it was so good that I ate it for breakfast the next day 🙂
What a great idea! This looks and sounds delicious.
It was so good I think you will love it!
I agree, this could be your best meatless monday ever. I am addicted to spaghetti squash and always looking for new ways to cook it. I love sundried tomatoes and spinach, so i will definitely be trying this out! Did you check out the recipe I posted about for the spaghetti sqash fritters the other day? SOOOOO good!
Yes I did see those too! I also love spaghetti squash-think my family might be over it though. Hope you try it
OMG– making this! It looks amazing and has all of my favorite ingredients!! Thanks for sharing!
Hope you enjoy it-it was so good!
Delicious looking! As always! I love the idea of spaghetti squash to cut back on too many eggs.
I didn’t miss the real crust at all. It was so good!
What a great idea to use spaghetti squash, and I love the name squiche!
Thanks it just sort of came to me! It is really tasty and filling. Hope you give it a try. Thanks for stopping by & have a great day
Hi Deborah! What a great idea with the spaghetti squash crust!
Thanks for linking up with Tasty Tuesday this week.
I would really appreciate it if you could link back or add our badge, too.
Thanks and look forward to seeing your post next week.
thanks it was yummy! And I absolutely will next time!
uhm, this looks DEVINE and spaghetti squash as a crust?! GENIUS! WOULD it work if i omitted cheese? (no dairy for me!)
Thanks and yes I do think you could leave the cheese out with no issues. Hope you give it a try!
Yum yum yummy!!!! That looks awesomely good!!!! I love spaghetti squash.
You will love it! It is so satisfying and good. You wont’ even miss your juice 🙂