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This quick and simple recipe for crustless pizza mini quiches adds flavor and variety to any meal. Check how to make them and all the packing tips!
Crustless Mini Quiches with Pepperoni
My favorite family recipes are those that come together quickly, have relatively few ingredients, can be made ahead of time, and are simple enough for young kitchen helpers to assist in the making. Like these crustless pizza mini quiches!
Kids can help whisk the eggs, shred cheese, and even fill the mini muffin cups with the mixture. We make these quiches nearly every week. And each week one of my kids gets to pick what goes in them.
My daughter loves coming up with crazy combinations like broccoli and ham, tomatoes and bacon, and the biggest fail to date: apples and cinnamon (not a good combination with eggs). Some of the better ones were zesty mini quiches, spinach and bacon, and ham and cheese.
Ingredients
Just like traditional pizza, you can make these mini quiches with your favorite toppings. Eggs and milk are the base (instead of pizza crust) and the variety of toppings you can add in is unlimited! Here’s what I included this time:
- Eggs: essential to bind the ingredients.
- Milk: any dairy or non-dairy milk.
- Pizza toppings: I usually add pepperoni and olives, you can add your favorites. If adding meat, make sure is cooked. More ideas below.
- Shredded cheese: mozzarella, cheddar, Swiss, or any other cheese you like!
How to Make Pizza Mini Quiches
Before jumping to the printable recipe card, take a look at the steps and tips to make these crustless pizza mini quiches and you’ll see why it is so easy to involve the kids in the process:
- Prep
Preheat the oven and grease a muffin pan. You can use a 24-cup mini muffin pan or a regular 12-cup muffin pan. - Combine
Whisk eggs with milk, and then add cheese and the pizza toppings. - Bake
The baking time will vary depending on the size of your muffin pan. - Enjoy!
Allow them to cool down before serving or packing for lunch.
Check out how easy it is to make these pizza mini quiches in this quick video:
Best Mini Quiche Mix-Ins
These mini quiches are great to open the fridge, check what leftovers you have, and use them in this recipe! Here are delicious and nutritious mix-ins ideas:
- Olives
- Pepperoni
- Mushrooms
- Cooked bacon
- Ham
- Sausage
- Cottage cheese
- Carrots and zucchini
- Bell peppers
- Spinach
- Salsa
- Pico de gallo
- Peas
- Black beans
Storing and Reheating Leftovers
Whether you have leftovers or bake them to enjoy during the week, allow them to cool down, place them in an airtight container or zip bag, and store them in the fridge for up to 3 days. Microwave them for 30 seconds to reheat.
You can also freeze these pizza mini quiches for up to 2 months inside a freezer-safe zip bag and reheat them in the microwave for about 1 minute.
How to Pack Mini Quiches for Work Lunch
Mini quiches are a terrific meal builder you can eat at room temperature or warm. To enjoy them cold, store them in the main compartment of your lunchbox. If you want them warm, microwave for 1 minute, flipping them halfway through. Transfer immediately to a thermos container and close the lid.
Pizza Mini Quiches
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 cup of your choice of pizza toppings, chopped
- 1 cup shredded cheese
Instructions
Prep:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease 24 count mini muffin pan or a regular 12-cup muffin pan.
Combine:
- In a large bowl, whisk eggs and milk. Add in chopped pizza toppings and shredded cheese. Mix to combine all ingredients.
- Distribute egg mixture evenly into muffin pan cups.
Bake:
- Bake for 15-18 minutes. If using a regular-sized muffin tray (yields 12) the baking time is approximately 26 to 28 minutes.
- Allow mini quiches to cool in pan before carefully removing with a small knife or spatula.
catherine says
Hey I love your lunch ideas and family recipes. I have 2 picky boys so I can use all the help I can get so thank you. I have my boys help me in the kitchen by doing small things like making toast, stirring a pot or cracking eggs in a pan. When I get fresh veggies and fruit I wash them in a special wash then chop and/or peel them first then separate them into baggies for a week. It makes it so much easier for them to eat after school as snacks and a guarantee that it will be a healthy one.
Brooke says
Hi Laura, your recipes, videos, emails and ideas are always a delight and very helpful. I am not good about preparing lunches or snacks in advance. This is something I am going to try to work on this summer. I think if I can start including him in the preparation and making a few of the decisions in what and how we pack, then maybe he be more likely to eat it. Right now, one of our biggest challenges is that my 5 year old son who is in Kindergarten wants to buy his lunch at school. Because the school has a prepaid system which we loaded money too from the beginning of the year as a fall back for days when we don’t have time to pack lunch, he now will sometimes buy his lunch even if we’ve sent him with a wonderful homemade lunch, saying that he forgot his lunch box in his classroom. Obviously, we could stop loading money to the system but I worry that he will forget his lunchbox and then not be able to buy either. I guess that would teach him not to forget his lunch box but I haven’t wanted to be that cruel (even though sometimes I think he is doing it on purpose or even worse, taking it with him but still purchasing too).
I know that there are some days when he is more hungry than others and also sometimes I think he laughs with his friends more than eats. He also has lunch at 10:30 am so he may not be that hungry yet.
Do your older kids ever want to buy lunch at school? Do you have any suggestions on how to convince a stubborn 5 year boy (who eats EVERYTHING when he is with us and has a very sophisticated palette but also loves all the things kids love) to eat his lunch rather than be so tempted to eat what the cafeteria is serving?
thanks!
Laura Fuentes says
My daughter also loves to buy lunch on Fridays (pizza day). However, at their school, lunch orders must be put in a month in advance. You might not want to hear this… but I just set my foot down and said “no”. I will not spend my money on junk food when she can bring her own pizza from home. If she wants, she can choose to spend her own money (from birthdays, savings, chores etc) on pizza day. Some months, she buys herself a Friday or two. It’s her money. That night, while we all have fun doing pizza night at home, she gets broccoli and steamed chicken (or something plain and boring) since she already had pizza that day. Those are my rules. She isn’t deprived of fun foods but I won’t support the habit. She’s learned that spending her money leaves her out of fun spending money on cute polish or whatever during the year when it’s not her birthday (she is 8). There is no “convincing” needed, it’s about explaining the responsibilities. you can do it!
Julia says
Love the mini quiches! My son, who is rather particular 🙂 likes them with spinach and cheese, and just egg and cheese. He’s also not excited about the hands-on aspects of helping in the kitchen, but getting him involved in the planning side has helped both of us come up with more things that he likes or is at least willing to try. My daughter loves to help with mixing, measuring and cleaning up as well as the planning of meals. They remind me every day of how much fun it is that we’re all so different 🙂
Mary Parra says
I have four kids — two have food allergies. They are also the picky ones, which makes any meal or snack difficult! I have lived by your recipes and tips from the Momables website and your cookbook (and I pre-ordered your new cookbook) for more than a year. Because of you, making lunches has become so much easier for me. You gave me the life-saving idea to pack their lunches the night before. In fact tonight I even packed through Wednesday, which made me think of you. Since you were on my mind, I remembered to have the kids put smoothie creations in baggies to be frozen so they can pull them out when they get home from school and make smoothies. I also just made 2 dozen “egg muffins” for my husband — he is not a breakfast eater and would not eat if I didn’t make these every Sunday. Thanks for all you do!!!
Laura Fuentes says
Thank you so much Mary! You are an inspiration and doing an amazing job! Kudos to you for following through with the “ideas” and actually making them a reality.
Andrea says
We have a garden. So, we try to involve our two girls by growing things they like ( carrots, strawberries, corn) but also things things they said they didn’t like (lettuces, Swiss chard, eggplant) . And then, we pick and cook together! They ‘re pretty good eaters now!