Butternut Squash Quiche with Bacon, Sage, and Gruyere

This savory quiche is full of incredible fall flavors. Roasted butternut squash, bacon, fried sage leaves, and freshly grated gruyere cheese.

My husband actually came up with the idea for this quiche! His coworkers had a cooking competition where they had to come up with a dish that features a few chosen ingredients (this is based off a cooking show, right?) and the ingredients were pie crust and butternut squash. I’m not going to attempt a butternut squash pie….so we brainstormed some quiche flavors and decided upon sage + gruyere + bacon.. Guess what?! He won! So this can technically be called an award-winning quiche…

If you’ve never fried sage leaves in bacon grease, and cooked butternut squash in bacon grease, let me tell you, it’s AMAZING. Just the aroma of the fried sage and bacon together was intoxicating. Here’s the run-down of how this quiche is made.. Chop and fry up some bacon with sage sprigs.. The sage leaves get nice and crispy, which makes them easy to chop up as well. Set those aside and cook the butternut squash in the same pan until nice and soft. All of this deliciousness gets sprinkled into the dish fitted with a pie crust, and tucked in with a blanket of shredded gruyere cheese. Then the filling gets poured on top, and bake it away! I tested this out by bringing it to a holiday brunch party, along with my Bacon Leek and Thyme Quiche, and both were gone in an instant. It even converted some people who claimed not to like quiche, into quiche-lovers. If you bake this, make sure to tag @sprinkledwithjules on instagram and use the hashtag #sprinkledwithjules. Happy baking!

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Butternut Squash Quiche with Bacon, Sage, and Gruyere

by Julia Alvarez May-06-2020

This quiche is warm, savory, and full of fall flavors like sage and butternut squash.

Ingredients

• 1 single pie crust
• 3 slices bacon
• 3 sprigs fresh sage leaves (1 T. chopped)
• 1 cups diced butternut squash (2 cm cubes)
• 1 cup grated gruyere cheese
• 4 eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 tea. salt
• 1/4 tea. pepper

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Roll out pie crust and fit it into a 9 inch pie plate or tart pan. Pierce bottom of crust with a fork to prevent crust from bubbling up. Cover with plastic wrap and place pie plate in the freezer while you prep the remaining ingredients.2. Chop the bacon into small squres (2 cm). Cook bacon over medium heat, with the sage leaves until bacon is cooked. Remove bacon and sage leaves, and set aside to cool.3. Using the same pan, add the diced butternut squash to the bacon grease and cook until fork-tender, about 8-10 minutes. Set aside to cool. 4. In a medium bowl whisk together the 4 eggs and 2 egg yolks until they are smooth and cohesive. Then whisk in the 1 cup of heavy cream. Add salt and pepper.5. Remove pie plate from freezer and spread bacon and butternut squash inside it evenly. Chop up the fried sage and sprinkle sage and gruyere atop the bacon and butternut squash, and then pour in the egg mixture.5. Place quiche into the preheated oven and bake at 350°F for 25-35 minutes. Quiche is done when the center still jiggles slightly (but does not move like liquid). In a tart pan, you'll see the crust coming away from the edges a bit also. Let cool 30 minutes before slicing. Enjoy!

Details

Prep time: 20 mins Cook time: 40 mins Total time: 1 hour Yield: 1 9" quiche