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This Easy Vegan Spinach & Artichoke Quiche is made with a delicious and flaky homemade crust, hearty veggies, and a cream tofu filling. #breakfastgoals

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It’s time to elevate breakfast and brunch with this Easy Vegan Spinach & Artichoke Quiche. Made with a delicious and flaky homemade crust, hearty veggies, and a creamy tofu filling, this recipe is sure to impress even the pickiest eaters.

An overhead shot of an uncut vegan quiche with a crimped crust

Ingredients to make a vegan quiche; tofu, almond milk, onions, garlic, lemons, nutritional yeast, turmeric and salt

The base of this recipe is simple: tofu, onions, garlic, turmeric, salt, nutritional yeast, lemon, and almond milk. We also recommendย that you add kalaย namakย to this recipe.

Kala Namak, also known as “Indian black salt” or “Himalayan black salt”, is formed by heating Himalayan pink salt to extremely high temperatures and mixing it with Indian spices and herbs including harad fruit seeds which contain sulfur. It has a distinctive taste due to the sulfur, comparable to hard-boiled eggs.

A slice of vegan quiche on a plate - perfect!

If you’re not familiar with quiche, it’s essentially a breakfast pie loaded up with all the fixings and served in slice form. Traditionallyย quiche is made with eggs, but since we don’t vibe with that, we made ours with tofu. Let me just tell you, it’s so dang delicious.

Ingredients to make a vegan quiche; tofu, almond milk, onions, garlic, lemons, nutritional yeast, turmeric and salt

The beauty of a quiche is that it’s fully customizable, once you have your crust and base, you can fill it with whatever your heart desires. We loaded our quiche with spinach, mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, and artichokes, but the options are endless. We love the way ours turned out, but you can also use ingredients such as vegan ham, dairy-free cheese, tempeh, veggie sausage, broccoli, and the list goes on.

Vegan Eggs Benedict Pour Shot with Hollandaise

This recipe is part of our challenge series and this month we are whipping up some breakfast/brunch recipes. Make sure to also check out Chris’s Vegan Eggs Benedict recipe (above) and watch our video.

Who do you think won? Chris and his Benedict or me with this Easy Vegan Spinach & Artichoke Quiche?

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Make sure you tag usย onย Instagramย @sweetsimpleveganย and @consciouschris and hashtagย #sweetsimpleveganย if you recreate any of ourย recipes, we love toย see your photos!

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A slice of vegan quiche on a plate - perfect!

Easy Vegan Spinach & Artichoke Quiche


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  • Author: Jasmine @ Sweet Simple Vegan
  • Total Time: 2 hours 15 minutes
  • Yield: 8 servings

Description

Learn how to make the PERFECT vegan quiche! We serve this recipe to a handful of nonvegans and they all LOVED it. It’s definitely a recipe made to impress.


Ingredients

Crust (or use a store-bought crust)

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup solid coconut oil*
  • 45 tablespoons ice water*
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely minced (optional but recommended)

Filling

  • 1 (14 oz.) package extra-firm tofu, drained
  • 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
  • 13 tablespoons almond milk, as needed
  • 1/4 teaspoon Kala namakย (Indian black salt),ย to taste (optional, for eggy flavor)
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (we used parsley)
  • 1/3 cup vegetable broth
  • 1/2 mediumย onion, finely diced
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
  • 2 cups packed baby spinach, roughly chopped
  • 6 oz. marinated artichoke hearts, drained and roughly chopped, patted dry with paper towels

Other Optional Vegetables

  • 1 medium leek, finely chopped (white and light green parts only)
  • 1 cup mushrooms, finely chopped
  • 1/2 bell pepper, finely diced

Instructions

Crust

  1. In a large bowl, mix together the all-purpose flour, salt and minced garlic until uniform. Cut in the coconut oil using either a party cutter or a fork, and continue doing so until the mixture reaches a sand-like consistency. Add in the ice water, 2 tablespoons at a time, until the dough is moist enough to form a ball. We used 8 tablespoons in total. Shape the dough into a disk, wrap it in plastic wrap*, and place it into the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes to set.
  2. Once the dough has set, grab a pie pan.ย Do not oil the pan. Evenly press the crust into the bottom and sides of the pie pan, being sure to form a crust.ย If you would like, you can crimp the edges or add a crust design of your choice. Place the crust back into the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  3. Preheat the oven to 375ยฐF. Remove the crust from the refrigerator. Place a large piece of parchment paper on top of the crust and add pie weights or dried beans to the crust. This will ensure it does not collapse. Place the crust into the oven and blind bake for 15 minutes, orย until the edges of the crust start to brown. Remove the crust from the ovenย and then remove both the pie weights and parchment paper. Using a fork, prick holes all around the bottom and sides of the crust. Return the crust to the oven, uncovered, for 10 minutes more. Remove and set aside.

Filling and Vegetables

  1. In a medium pan over medium heat, add in 2 tablespoons of vegetable broth. Once warm, add in the onions, garlic,ย and leek. Sautรฉ for 3-4 minutes, or until the onions are translucent and the garlic is fragrant. Add more vegetable broth, one tablespoon at a time, as needed to prevent burning.
  2. Once cooked, add in the mushrooms and bell pepper. Cook for 4 minutes more, or until softened.
  3. Once all of the vegetables have cooked. Remove the pot from heat and add in the spinach. Stir the spinach through, and then cover the pot to allow it to steam for 5 minutes. Mix in the artichokes and set aside.
  4. To a food processor, add in the tofu,ย nutritional yeast,ย lemon juice, turmeric, and black salt. Blend until smooth. If the mixture is crumbly, add in almond milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until smooth. Add salt to taste. Add in the chopped parsley and pulse until combined but not completelyย broken down. Transfer to a large bowl. Add in the cooked vegetable mixture and mix until uniform.

Assembly

  1. Transfer the quiche filling into the pie crust, being sure to use a spatula to spread it out evenly. Place the quiche in the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the top has darkened in color.
  2. Remove from the oven and cool completely before serving. This quiche is best if refrigerated and served the next day. Enjoy!

Notes

Crust Notes

  • You can also use a store-bought crust or any crust of your choice, just be sure to keep in mind that the crusts may need to be blind baked (look at directions on the packaging/recipe). You can even make this quiche crustless!
  • You can opt out of using the plastic wrap and just place the dough into a bowl in the refrigerator. We donโ€™t have plastic wrap, but that is how it is traditionally done so we wanted to share both options.
  • If your coconut oil is not solid, place it into the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before using, mixing halfway through.
  • For easy ice water, we just place a glass half full of water into the freezer for about 30 minutes before using. It is the perfect temperature!

Filling Notes

  • The beauty of this quiche is that you can use the tofu base and add whatever vegetables you would like. Have fun with it!
  • The base should blend up to be a very thick batter. If it appears crumbly, add more almond milk, one tablespoon at a time, until smooth.
  • Kala Namak, also known as “Indian black salt” or “Himalayan black salt”, is formed by heating Himalayan Pink Salt to extremely high temperatures and mixing it with Indian spices and herbs including harad fruit seeds which contain sulfur. It has a distinctive taste due to the sulfur, comparable to hard-boiled eggs.

  • Prep Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Category: Breakfast, Brunch
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: Vegan

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  1. This recipe was amazing! I am trying to transition to this lifestyle. My husband who does not eat plant based stated he liked it. Thank you!!! This is 5 stars. The stars will not stay highlighted. Sorry.

  2. The pie crust recipe strongly recommends the use of garlic but I don’t see when you use it. Please help.

    1. Hi Claudia! I added it, thanks for catching that. Just add it in when you add the flour and salt ๐Ÿ™‚

  3. Hi!! I’m planning to make this tomorrow. How much sugar is needed for the pie crust? Also, I only have a square pan, do you think it’ll be OK? Thanks!!






    1. Sorry about that! NO sugar is needed ๐Ÿ™‚ I had copied the crust recipe from our apple pie but took out the sugar, I just forgot to remove that from the directions. And yes, it will work the crust will just be a little tricker to spread out!