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Healthy and yummy egg pie with kale and lots of cheese in a delicious flaky crust.
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Kale Egg Pie

Healthy and yummy egg pie with kale and lots of cheese in a delicious flaky crust.
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine French
Keyword egg pie recipes, egg recipes, healthy quiche recipe, kale egg pie, kale quiche recipe, kale recipes, quiche recipes, summer quiche recipe, summer recipes
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings 8
Calories 310kcal
Author Teresa

Ingredients //

For the Crust

  • 1 cup All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Spelt Flour
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • ¼ teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 2 tablespoons Grapeseed Oil
  • 4 tablespoons Salted Butter cold
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 tablespoon White Vinegar
  • 1-4 tablespoon Ice Water optional
  • 1 Egg for an egg wash

For the Filling

  • 8 medium Kale Leaves fresh
  • Water
  • ½ cup Ricotta Cheese
  • ½ cup Parmesan Cheese shredded
  • ¼ cup Scamorza Cheese shredded
  • 3 Eggs

Instructions //

For the Crust

  • Preheat oven to 400° Fahrenheit. Grease a large loaf pan and set it aside.
  • Use a fork to whisk together the flours, salt, and baking powder. Add the oil, and cut in the cold butter.
  • Whisk together the egg and vinegar, and add to the flour mixture.
  • If the pastry will come mostly together into a ball, leave the ice water out. If it won't, add ice water one tablespoon at a time until it does.
  • Roll out the pastry and fit it into your loaf pan until it comes about ¾ of the way up the sides. Use the extra to cut shapes for the top.

For the Filling

  • Trim the kale leaves. (Don't just cut the stem off below the leaf, but cut away most of the "backbone" of the leaf. Kale stems are rather too woody for our purposes here.)
  • Fill a large pot with water and bring it to a boil. Add the kale leaves, and cook for six minutes.
  • Strain the water out of the kale, pressing the leaves to remove as much water as possible.
  • Let the kale cool a bit, and then place it on a cutting board. Chop into very fine bits.
  • Stir together the cheese and kale.

To Assemble the Kale Egg Pie

  • Spoon the cheese/kale mixture into the crust, and smooth it out. Create three wells, evenly spaced, in the cheese/kale mixture.
  • Crack an egg into each of the wells, and arrange the crust over the top.
  • Bake for 30 minutes at 400° Fahrenheit.
  • Let cool slightly, cut, and serve!