Crustless Cottage Cheese Quiche with Spinach

Name: Crustless Cottage Cheese Quiche with Spinach
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 tsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil (2 tsp extra virgin olive oil); 1 piece Yellow Onion (1 medium yellow onion or sweet onion, finely chopped); 10 oz Spinach (10 ounce package frozen chopped spinach thawed and drained); 12 oz Cheddar Cheese (12 oz grated Cabot 50% light cheddar cheese); 8 cup Egg White (8 large egg whites you can use 1 1/2 cups liquid egg whites in the carton); 1 piece Egg (1 whole egg); ⅓ cup Low-Fat Cottage Cheese (1/3 cup low-fat cottage cheese); ¼ tsp Cayenne Pepper (1/4 tsp ground cayenne red pepper); 0.13 tsp Sea Salt (1/8 tsp sea salt); 0.13 tsp Nutmeg (1/8 tsp ground nutmeg); ¼ tsp Black Pepper (1/4 tsp ground black pepper)

A crustless quiche with spinach, onion, and light cheddar, baked with a high-protein egg white and cottage cheese custard.

50 minFrench

Servings4

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Steps

1Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2Drizzle oil in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
3Add onion and cook until translucent (about 5 minutes).
4Add spinach and stir for about 3 minutes, until spinach is dry. Set aside.
5Lightly coat a 9" nonstick pie pan with olive oil cooking spray.
6Sprinkle grated cheese in the bottom of the pan.
7Top with spinach mixture.
8In a medium bowl, whisk egg whites, whole egg, cottage cheese, red pepper, sea salt, nutmeg, and black pepper.
9Pour egg mixture over spinach.
10Bake for 40-45 minutes or until set.
11Let sit for 5 minutes and slice into wedges.