Quiche in the microwave?

Softstuff

I borrowed a microwave cookbook (since I now have no oven), and there's a quiche recipe in there. I didn't know you could do pastry in a standard microwave, and am a little dubious. Didn't want to waste ingredients on something untested, so has anyone actually tried this?

Any other interesting microwave recipes gratefully received!

babyshoes

My Dad tried to make microwave quiche once. Afraid I don't really remember the result, as the process was so traumatic! It can't have been terribly good though, as he never made it again (or went into the kitchen to cook anything more complicated than toast, for that matter!!!)

You may be safer investigating a crustless quiche recipe! My grandmother loved her microwave and cooked everything she could in it, but never mastered pastry.

Pink.

Hi Softstuff,

I haven't personally tried quiche or pastry in a microwave, but this thread might give you some recipe ideas:

Microwave Recipes

Pink

Softstuff

babyshoes wrote: »

My Dad tried to make microwave quiche once. Afraid I don't really remember the result, as the process was so traumatic! It can't have been terribly good though, as he never made it again (or went into the kitchen to cook anything more complicated than toast, for that matter!!!)

You may be safer investigating a crustless quiche recipe! My grandmother loved her microwave and cooked everything she could in it, but never mastered pastry.

Hehe, traumatic is kind of how I imagined microwave pastry to be. I figured frittata and crustless quiche would go ok, since scrambled eggs are fine in the microwave. It's just that pastry is cheap and really bulks things out!

Thanks Pink, I'll take a look there.

SallyForth_2

All my experiences with pastry in the microwave have ended with soggy pastry, so unless it's some sort of special mix, I really can't see it working. Maybe try making small one, using half the ingredients and test what happens.

Softstuff

SallyForth wrote: »

All my experiences with pastry in the microwave have ended with soggy pastry, so unless it's some sort of special mix, I really can't see it working. Maybe try making small one, using half the ingredients and test what happens.

I'd suspected soggy would be the result. I couldn't really trial it with a small one since I only have a large pie plate suitable for the microwave. Thanks for sharing your experience.

rosieben

I've cooked pastry in the micro years ago but it wasn't a success, it doesn't 'dry out' the same as in a normal oven

there's a microwave quiche recipe here which uses a biscuit/cracker base, you could adjust the filling to your own taste

I'll add that link to the microwave recipe thread Pink mentioned

Larumbelle

I've got to be honest, I think often cookery books for a certain 'type' of cooking (micro, slow cooker, pressure cooker, whatever) tend to have recipes just for the sake of completeness. You probably can cook a quiche in the micro, but it's probably not the best or even the easiest way. Personally I would just do it in the oven. To minimise fuel costs I would do a batch then freeze or cook it at the same time as cooking other items. Microwaves and pastry just don't go together.

adelight

It's doable, my boyfriend does it a lot and it works well. A combi microwave would make it even better.

Softstuff

Larumbelle wrote: »

I've got to be honest, I think often cookery books for a certain 'type' of cooking (micro, slow cooker, pressure cooker, whatever) tend to have recipes just for the sake of completeness. You probably can cook a quiche in the micro, but it's probably not the best or even the easiest way. Personally I would just do it in the oven. To minimise fuel costs I would do a batch then freeze or cook it at the same time as cooking other items. Microwaves and pastry just don't go together.

If I had an oven I would! Normally things like cakes, cookies, quiche and sausage rolls go in the oven as a batch, but since the thing died I was looking for alternatives. I have a microwave and 1 working hob.

I appreciate what you're saying about including things for completeness. There's so many recipes in the darned book that you could cook on a hob much more easily.

The reason for me asking about quiche specifically, is prior to the hob breaking I'd invited the in-laws, and 2 sets of grand-in-laws (1 set we only see once a year) to lunch, and I'd had quiche in mind for that. I think I'll try something else. That'll teach me to meal plan :rotfl:

Larumbelle

Oh dear! I think I got the wrong end of the stick. Sorry to hear about your oven dying.

I probably still wouldn't go for the quiche in the micro though - especially if the in-laws are the guinea pigs! Instead of quiche, why not mix whatever you were planning to use for the quiche filling, add some potatoes and cook a frittata/tortilla type thing? You could do that on the hob.