Seafood Cream Cheese Quiche

Submitted by Kittencalrecipezazz

"This is a very delicious seafood quiche, I have made this quite often for a luncheons, everyone just loves it. This recipe make 2, 8-inch pies, just divide all ingredients evenly between the two pie shells. If my memory serves me right, I believe the original recipe called for one large deep-dish, 10-inch pie plate, but I prefer to make it into two, 8-inch pies."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 2 8inch pies

ingredients

• 2 unbaked pie pastry (use 8 or 9-inch)
• 1⁄4 cup chopped celery (or to suit taste)
• 1⁄3 cup onion, chopped (or to suit taste)
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1⁄4 lb grated swiss cheese
• 1 lb uncooked shrimp, shelled, deveined
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 5 large eggs, beaten
• 1 cup whole milk or 1 cup half-and-half

directions

1. Set oven to 425F degrees.
2. In a saute pan, melt the butter, and saute the onion and the celery, until soft.
3. Add in the shrimp, cook until the shrimp are pink in colour; set aside.
4. Divide the cream cheese in half, and cut the cream cheese into 1/4 inch pieces; sprinkle evenly into the bottom of the two pie crusts.
5. Top with the sauteed shrimp/onion mixture.
6. Top with the grated Swiss cheese.
7. Mix together the milk and eggs; divide evenly between the two pie crusts.
8. Bake for 10 minutes at 425F degrees.
9. Reduce the temperature to 350F degrees, bake for 30 minutes more.

Reviews

[Kimberly L.]

I made mine with chorizo and shrimp and it was amazing!!!! Used 4oz of cream cheese as well and two 8inch pies along with spinach and MAAAAN it is TASTY!!!!! Be sure to drain the grease from the meat with a slotted spoon but the taste factors are a 10!!!

 

[EppiRN]

Quite tasty! I followed some other suggestions here and make the entire recipe into one deep-dish pie plate. Although, I did only use 4oz total of cream cheese (half of what recipe calls for), after reading comments. I used a combination of shrimp, bay scallops and crab meat (to total 1lbs) and it was excellent!! Cooked it an extra 10 minutes just to be sure it was set. A nice treat for my non-meat-eating guests!! Thanks, will keep this one!

 

[rbalcom]

Delicious!!!I doubled most of the ingredients so I would have one for dinner and one to take to a brunch the next day !! I also used shrimp and crabmeat which was awesome. My family loved it ( kids too) and it didn't last at the brunch...I never even got a piece. Very easy to make,,had to bake alittle longer to be sure the middle was cooked. Will be a favorite !

 

[Britgal]

This is a delicious quiche. I made it the same as the recipe and I also made it with two dishes and used Bacon in one and tinned crab in the other. I had compliments on all three.I served these with crusty bread and a salad.

 

[eatrealfood]

we had this for dinner tonight and my husband totally relished it. however, i had a bit of an issue with the cream cheese. i halved the recipe (and halved the cream cheese commensurately), but still found the cheese to permeate through the other ingredients a bit too much. this wouldn't be a problem in itself, but somehow the cheese pieces didn't quite melt or blend into the mixture as i would have preferred. this happened even though the cheese was very softened and i baked the quiche for even longer than the specified time. maybe next time i will soften and then beat the cream cheese into the egg mixture. besides that quibble, it was a very gratifying dinner for my husband especially. thanks, KC!:)