Keto Ham and Cheese Crustless Quiche
This Keto Ham and Cheese Crustless Quiche recipe is a great make ahead keto breakfast or brunch recipe filled with broccoli, ham, and cheese.
This easy keto quiche is great way to start your day without all of the carbs. We skip the pie crust and whisk together a mixture of eggs and heavy cream before pouring it over cheese, ham, and broccoli and bake it into a fluffy, flavorful, ham and cheese quiche.
This is great for a Sunday family brunch or a quick and for meal prep during the week.
Play around with different variations of meats, veggies and cheeses and see what a difference breakfast can make in your day.
We’ve made crustless quiche Lorraine, Mexican crustless quiche, and sausage and spinach crustless quiche and they are all amazing.
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Ingredients You’ll Need
You’ll only need a few simple ingredients to make this ham and cheese filled keto crustless quiche:
- Eggs– You can’t make a quiche, or a crustless quiche, without breaking a few eggs!
- Shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese – Nothing goes better with eggs than cheese! A finely grated cheddar cheese goes perfectly with the ham and eggs.
- Ham– Use leftover ham from dinner the night before or buy a small boneless ham and chop it into cubes. Either way, the sweet and salty flavor is going go perfectly with your cheese and broccoli.
- Onion– Sauté some diced onions along with your ham to pack as much flavor as possible into your low carb quiche.
- Broccoli – Cut it into small, bite-sized florets before adding it to the low carb quiche.
- Heavy Cream– You can substitute milk for the heavy cream but don’t unless you have to. The heavy cream adds a richness to the low carb quiche that you miss out on with milk.
If you want to mix it up you can also substitute the mix-ins with cooked bacon, swiss or Gruyere cheese, mozzarella, spinach, mushrooms, green onions, etc.
Instructions
This ham and cheese quiche is a super easy quiche recipe that packs in a lot of flavor with just a few ingredients!
Step 1 – Prepare oven. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Step 2 – Saute. Lightly sauté the ham and onions together in a skillet over medium heat to bring out their flavor.
Step 3 – Steam. Place broccoli florets in a microwave-safe bowl and add 2 tablespoons of water. Microwave for 2-3 minutes until broccoli is lightly steamed and tender.
Step 4 – Make the custard. In a bowl add eggs and heavy cream. Whisk together.
Step 5 – Put it together. Add the ham, onion, and lightly steamed broccoli to a greased pie plate or quiche dish.
Add cheddar cheese to the broccoli, ham, and onion.
Pour your egg mixture over the ham, onion, and broccoli and sprinkle just a little more of the cheese on top…because there really isn’t such thing as too much cheese.
Step 6 – Bake. Place in oven with a bake time of 35-40 minutes. You’ll know it’s done when you can give the quiche a little shake and it doesn’t jiggle in the middle.
There are 5 grams of carbs and 1 gram of fiber in our crustless quiche. This is a total of 4 grams net carbs per slice.
Yes! A frittata, which is an egg-based Italian dish, is made the same way as a traditional quiche minus the pie dough. So when you’re going for all of the flavors of a delicious quiche, minus the carbs you make a simple crustless quiche, otherwise known as a frittata :).
You can substitute whole milk for heavy cream in quiche BUT whole milk does have more carbs than heavy cream so to keep this a low carb quiche I suggest sticking with the cream and skipping the milk.
If you do use milk you’ll need to recalculate the nutritional value below.
Yes, you can make this ahead of time. The night before mix together all of the ingredients and pour them into your prepared dish. Make sure you are using a dish that can go from cold to hot safely. Then cover and place in the refrigerator overnight.
In the morning remove from the refrigerator and place it in the oven to bake according to the instructions. Because it is going in cold you may have to bake a few extra minutes.
How to Freeze and Reheat
You can freeze this quiche recipe. Bake it according to the recipe instructions and then let it cool for about 20 minutes. Once cooled, slice the quiche into individual servings and double wrap each in plastic wrap and then wrap it in aluminum foil. Place the pieces in the freezer and freeze for up to 1 month.
When you are ready to eat a piece just unwrap and put it in the microwave for 2-5 minutes (depending on your microwave) and you have the perfect keto breakfast!
Looking for More Keto Breakfast Recipes?
- Mexican Crustless Quiche
- Sausage and Spinach Crustless Quiche
- Classic Deviled Egg Recipe
- Mississippi Sin Deviled Eggs
- Crustless Quiche Lorraine
- BLT Bacon Cups
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Low Carb Ham and Cheese Crustless Quiche
Ingredients
- 8 ounces Shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese
- 6 Eggs, large
- 1 cup Heavy cream
- 8 ounces Ham, cubed
- ½ cup Yellow Onion, diced
- 2 cups Broccoli florets
- 1 tablespoon Butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a skillet over medium high heat melt 1 tablespoon of butter and add onions and ham. Sauté for 5-7 minutes until onions are translucent.
- Place broccoli florets in a microwave-safe bowl and add 2 tablespoons of water. Microwave for 2-3 minutes until broccoli is lightly steamed and tender.
- In a bowl add eggs and 1 cup of heavy cream. Whisk together.
- Place ham, onions, broccoli, and 6 ounces of cheese in a greased 9-inch pie plate or quiche pan.
- Pour the egg mixture over the meat and veggies.
- Sprinkle the remaining 2 ounces of cheese over the mixture.
- Place in the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes or until you can jiggle the pan and the quiche doesn’t shake in the center. Remove and let cool for about 5 minutes before cutting and serving.
My husband and son despise broccoli, but they love this quiche.
Awesome simple recipe, I keep the veggies out to make it a carnivore dish with all animal based ingredients .
Looks delicious, do you think I could substitute fresh spinach instead of broccoli?
Yes! We use spinach in our sausage version and it’s delicious! https://www.homemadeinterest.com/sausage-and-spinach-crustless-quiche-low-carb-keto/
I used spinach. Very good
Yum! Came out perfect!
I doubled the batch (for grab-n-go breakfast) and was worried that it wouldn’t cook through all the way. It was not fully cooked when I took it out of the oven so I put aluminum foil on top of it and let it cook itself outside of the oven for an additional 15 minutes. Will definitely make this again.
Hi Kay! Sitting down and enjoying this delicious quiche! My husband and I have been low-carbing/keto since October with great results. Thanks for another great recipe!
How can you have no seasoning? I understand ham and cheese are salty but you need at least a pinch of salt. Also added fresh black pepper and dried thyme. Also substituted 3 egg beaters for 3 other eggs and used half/half instead of heavy cream and consistency was perfect.
Between the sauteed onions and the salt in the ham and cheese I didn’t find mine needed any added seasoning but of course people can add anything they’d like based on their tastes. We use heavy cream in this recipe because half and half has more sugar/carbs so depending on how low you’re keeping your carbs you’ll want to keep an eye on that.
Love this! I make this up and freeze individual portions. Tastes even better reheated.
How many servings does this recipe make?
This makes 8 servings
This recipe is fantastic. I think I originally saved this as an easy Christmas morning breakfast but have used it countless times since. I’ve found it great for a quick “breakfast” for dinner too! I honestly don’t know how something so simple is so good. I’ve made it in many different ways. Tonight I used chicken apple sausage, kale, green onions, and Italian cheeses in similar amounts to original recipe and turned out delicious.
This looks so good! I love that the ingredient list is short and simple! What a fun one to make for weekend brunch!
Okay so I can’t just follow a recipe without changing it a bit and I like to use what’s already in my fridge. I sautéed garlic and shallot then added the ham with mushrooms and asparagus. I also used Gruyere cheese instead of cheddar. There’s probably so many combinations to make but the base of egg and whipping cream and cook time was perfecto. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing! Does it keep long?
I have kept mine, unfrozen, up to 1 week. I wouldn’t go longer than that.
I just made this with leftover Easter ham, and it was amazing! The flavors blended together perfectly. I turned off the oven at 35 minutes and let it set in there for a few minutes before taking out. I used red onion and medium cheddar cheese because that’s what I had on hand, but I’m sure it will taste even better with sharp cheddar. Thank you for this recipe!
I search and try countless recipes. This is the first time I actually emailed my reaction to a recipe. This quiche was FABULOUS! I used leftover Easter ham and pretty much followed the recipe. My husband and I loved it. It was a complete meal. Didn’t need anything else. And it was healthy. Thanks!
I’m so glad you liked it! 🙂
Loved it will definitely make it again.
Absolutely delicious. Added a touch of nutmeg only because that’s the flavor I grew up with. Such a fast & simple recipe. Simple is beautiful! Especially these days. Thank you so much.
Hi there. Looking forward to trying this recipe
What size/diameter of dish is best. May need to by.one
Thanks very much.
We used a 9inch round glass pie dish but you can also use an 8×8 inch pyrex dish is that is easier.
This recipe is delicious! Came out amazing!!
I have made this twice now and absolutely love it. I also questioned no seasonings, I like my salt!, but I found this really does not need any. I do substitute spinach for the broccoli, it lowers the carb count even more. This time I’m going to try freezing the leftovers.
I adapted this a bit I sauteed onion and garlic with some olive oil, used cherry tomatoes and leftover new potatoes,chives 7 eggs, grated cheese,cup of heavy cream which worked lovely. Thankyou x
This was delish! I used light cream instead because that’s what I had on hand. I will definitely make this again and again.
Very good! I didn’t have any leftover ham, so I used bacon. Easy and enjoyed by both of us.
Yum! Bacon always makes things better 🙂
I love this recipe! It’s delicious! I used light cream because that’s what I had on hand. The recipe is very simple to make. Second time making it…it’s a keeper.
BEST QUICHE EVER!! I am using it for my low carb days and it’s delicious!!
love this just made it i added a pinch of mustard powder, Dash of nutmeg, black pepper. Used heavy cream and half and half. Came out great will make again.
This was the best quiche I’ve had!!! I added mushrooms (on my husband’s side of the pie plate lol) and he loved it too! Thank you for sharing this recipe!!!
I made this for Easter brunch and it was delicious! My adult son ate half of it in one sitting! I will Definitely make this again!
Thanks Deb! Adult sons are known for such behavior, LOL
Made the quiche today. It is delicious warm and cold. I love this low carb recipe. Thank you
Is it okay to use frozen broccli
I worry that the broccoli will be mushy and release too much moisture.
Can I make this recipe with 2% milk?
Yes you can 🙂
It’s yummy. I didn’t have broccoli and I added sliced fresh garden tomatoes on top.
Excellent recipe. Have made twice now. Once using 8inch pie dish, turned out deeper and needed extra cooking time. Second time used a 9 in dish and added some black pepper seasoning, plus chopped red bell pepper. Both tasted good and went down well with family.