Crustless Spinach Quiche

During this journey my husband and I are taking to a healthier lifestyle, one of the most frustrating things for me is finding new and inventive things to prepare each week. He runs sound at our church and we are there during both services each week. (You will see by my next statement I am FAR from the model person to emulate- lol.) 

During the early service, you will often find me looking through Pinterest and my go to recipe book - planning for the week. Then once recipes are chosen, going through the Kroger app and paper coupons, making our list and organizing it by type/location in the store. In between services, we typically make our run to Wal-Mart or Target and then after church, our weekly run to Kroger. We have gotten pretty good at taking a long list and completing it in about 30 minutes. I think maybe we have built up a stock of the "weird, low carb" things needed for most recipes - if you are new to this low carb journey, don't fret - it DOES get easier. You even start seeing recipes and mentally making them low carb in your mind. 

Sunday we were making a light quiche for dinner. The recipe sounded easy and delicious, but I also knew I would need to amp up the spices. We like things well seasoned and lots of people would say - HOT. 🌶

I am new to this blogging thing, so I forgot to take pictures of the ingredients before I started - OOPS! I will be better about this as we go on this journey together. 

Gather all needed ingredients together, it makes clean up so much easier and it also makes putting it all together so simple! 

You will need: 

6 egg whites

7 medium eggs

2 C loosely packed spinach - coursely chopped

1/2 C fresh grated Parmesan cheese

1/2 C chopped sun-dried tomatoes (no liquid)

1/2 C chopped onion

3 cloves minced garlic

1 Tbs olive oil

Kosher salt and pepper to taste

 

Preheat oven to 375. 

The first thing you need to do is heat the olive oil in a pan (I am a cast iron fanatic and is almost exclusively what I use - I think it flavors so much better!).  Sautéed your garlic and onion about 5 or so minutes - until the onion is clear and the garlic is starting to get a golden brown color. Throw the spinach in until it just begins to wilt, then remove from heat and add the sun-dried tomatoes. 

While your garlic and onion are cooking, whisk your egg whites until frothy. In a separate bowl, beat your eggs, then add to the egg whites. Add Parmesan cheese and salt and pepper, mix well. 

 

Fold in the spinach mixture and pour into pie shell. Bake for 25 minutes, until the center springs back and it is a golden brown color. 

I hope you enjoy!