Award-Winning Quiche Recipe: Best Ever for Kids in the Kitchen (2024)

Inside: If your kids like cooking and baking in the kitchen, they will have fun with this award-winning quiche recipe. It will give them an opportunity to get their “hands wet” as they make a pie crust, chop vegetables, grate cheese, and layer ingredients. Another great learning curve in the kitchen!

Here is our family’s favorite quiche recipe that we’ve been making for 30+ years. It’s a recipe I got when taking a class from Marlene Sorosky. This quiche is scrumptious, easy to make, versatile, and can be served for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

I call this an award-winning quiche recipe because it never fails to please. It’s delicious for even the pickiest of palates; never flops and is amazing hot or cold. Given all that, I think it deserves the designation, “award-winning quiche.”

Award-Winning Quiche Recipe: Boursin Cheese Quiche

Tip #1: What is quiche and where did it originate from?

Quiche means “open tart or flan.” It originated in France but is made all over the world. Quiche consists of a pastry crust filled with eggs, cream, cheese, meat, vegetables, and/or seafood. It can be served hot or cold for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Considering all the eggs and veggies, quiche is very healthy.

Tip #2: Different Kinds of Cheeses Used in this Quiche

Introduce your kids to some of the different kinds of cheeses used in a quiche.

Boursin cheese

This cheese is used in this recipe. It’s a soft creamy cheese that comes in a variety of flavors. Both the flavor and texture are similar to cream cheese (just a lot better). Boursin is a brand of Gournay cheese and was developed in 1957 by Francois Boursin, a cheesemaker from Normandy. His first flavor was Garlic and Fine Herbs.

Swiss Cheese

Swiss cheese is a yellow medium-hard cheese with a lot of holes and resembles Emmental cheese which was first developed in Emmental in Switzerland. It has a tangy flavor and is used in many quiche recipes. However, not all swiss cheese has holes—it depends on how it is made.

Gruyere Cheese

I added this cheese to the list because a lot of quiche recipes call for this type of cheese. Note that you can use swiss cheese as a substitute for gruyere cheese because gruyere is a smooth-melting type of swiss cheese.

Tip #3: The Versatile, Nutrient-Dense Egg

The main ingredient in a quiche is eggs. Eggs are an amazing food. So much so that I dedicated an entire blog about eggs. They are loaded with protein, essential vitamins, and minerals such as choline which is an important nutrient that will build your children’s brains.

Tip #4: Making a Pie Crust

I have to confess—I hate making pie crusts! All the ones I’ve made from scratch…flop! So, when it comes to making a pie crust, I opt for the store-bought pie crust mix. Those crusts were easy for my kids and had the right flakiness and texture.

Here is a recipe from my friend, Joanna Lyons for her fool-proof pie crust recipe.

Tip #5: Things Learned When Making Quiche

Here are different skills your kids/grandkids will learn when making quiche;

• How to read a recipe and follow directions
• Make a pie crust
• How to form the pie crust into the quiche pan and create pretty edges
• Since the quiche requires the pie crust to be baked before adding all the other ingredients—your child will learn that sometimes a recipe calls for a baked pie crust and sometimes not. It depends on what you are making.
• The process of measuring, mixing, and chopping ingredients

4 Kitchen Science Tips When Cooking With Eggs

Eggs are filled with amazing science and having a broad understanding of the science behind eggs will help your kids/grandkids in the kitchen. Here are some kitchen science tips when hard-boiling an egg:

Tip #1: How to Hard-Boil an Egg (to perfection)

Here’s a recipe for the perfect hard-boiled egg.

• Take the number of eggs you are hard-boiling out of the fridge and set them on the counter for 30 minutes.
• Bring the water to a boil
• Carefully lower the eggs into the boiling water
• Set a timer and boil the eggs for 14 minutes, uncovered.
• When the timer goes off, turn off the heat; remove the pot off the burner
• Set the timer for 3 minutes allowing the eggs to “simmer” in the hot water
• When the timer goes off, pour off the hot water and run very cold water over the eggs for 3 minutes
• Remove the eggshell off the eggs. Wrap in paper towels and refrigerate

Tip #2: Why Do You Need Room Temperature Eggs for Hard Boiled Eggs?

Room temperature eggs usually don’t break when you put them into boiling water. There is an air pocket inside eggs which can cause the shell to crack when you place a cold egg in boiling water. The heat of the water expands the trapped air which creates atmospheric pressure. This pressure causes the fragile cold eggshell to crack releasing the trapped gas inside the egg. An egg that is at room temperature usually does not have this pressure issue and will not crack.

Tip #3: Why is it Easier to Peel a Hot Egg Rather than a Cold Egg?

As your hard-boiled egg cools off in the refrigerator, the egg white begins to stick to the shell’s membrane and makes it difficult to peel a cold egg. Try these tips:

• Gently crack the warm egg on a hard surface so the shell breaks
• Start at the larger end of the egg to peel
• Peel under cold running tap water

Tip #4: How to Prevent Green Around the Yolk

Your child may notice that some eggs have a green color around the edge of the yolk. It’s called ferrous sulfide and even though it’s harmless, it doesn’t look appetizing. It happens for two reasons:

1. The egg’s been cooked too long
2. You’ve used extreme heat when boiling the egg

The sulfur (a mineral) in the egg combines with the iron (another mineral) in the yolk to form this harmless green substance. Here are 3 tips to avoid this:

1. Use fresh eggs. Ferrous sulfide develops more quickly in old eggs
2. Never cook the eggs longer than 15 minutes.
3. Once the 14 minutes are over and the additional 3 minutes in the hot water, then quickly cool down the eggs in very cold water

Books About Quiche & Eggs

Here are some wonderful books about eggs and quiche to enjoy with your children and teens.

• The Ultimate Quiche and Savory Pie Recipes: Quiche Cookbook for Beginners by Les Ilagan
• The Savory Pie and Quiche Cookbook by Julie Hatfield
• Quiche Cookbook by BookSumo Press
• The Good Egg by Jory John
• Savory Pies by BookSumo Press

Have you made a quiche with your children? What was your experience? Do you have a favorite family quiche recipe you’d be willing to share? Please comment in the section below.

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