Meat Crust Quiche

By Knauss

Ingredients

• Serves: 4-5
• Ingredients
• 1 pound breakfast pork sausage (or italian sausage)
• 1 small sweet potato, diced
• 1/2 yellow onion, diced
• 2 cups fresh spinach
• 4 eggs, whisked
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/8 teaspoon ground paprika
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 2 tablespoons bacon fat (or other kind of fat)

Details

Adapted from paleomg.com

Preparation

Step 1

Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Now you gotta make your meat into a crust. So pull out a pie plate and begin to press your breakfast sausage into the pan until it is even all around and pressed up to the rim of the plate.
Place the pan on a baking sheet (in case of any spills) and in the oven, and bake for 18-20 minutes until meat presses back when you poke it. It doesn’t need to be completely cooked through, but pretty close.
While your crust is baking, place 2 tablespoons of fat into a saucepan over medium heat. Then add the minced garlic.
Add in the chopped onions and sweet potatoes to the pan and mix to cover with garlic. Once the onions begin to become translucent, sprinkle a bit of salt and pepper on top and cover to help steam the potatoes and cook quicker.
Once potatoes are tender after about 4-5 minutes, toss in the spinach and cover once more to help the spinach wilt.
After a minute or two, once the spinach is wilted, remove your mixture from the pan and place in a bowl to let cool.
When mixtures is cooled, add in the eggs, garlic powder, ground paprika and a bit more salt. Mix well.
After the crust is done baking, remove the excess oil that may be left behind, then pour your egg mixture on top of the meat crust. It’s just fine if some leaks over into the pan because the meat will shrink just a bit.
Place the pan back into the oven and bake for 23-25 minutes. My quiche took quite some time to completely cook through because the pan wasn’t very deep, so be sure to just poke at the middle. Once the middle pushes back when you poke it, it’s all good to go.
Let cool, cut and serve. Avocado on top was perfect.