Butternut Squash Quiche with Bacon, Sage, and Gruyere
This savory quiche is full of incredible fall flavors. Roasted butternut squash, bacon, fried sage leaves, and freshly grated gruyere cheese.
My husband actually came up with the idea for this quiche! His coworkers had a cooking competition where they had to come up with a dish that features a few chosen ingredients (this is based off a cooking show, right?) and the ingredients were pie crust and butternut squash. I’m not going to attempt a butternut squash pie….so we brainstormed some quiche flavors and decided upon sage + gruyere + bacon.. Guess what?! He won! So this can technically be called an award-winning quiche…
If you’ve never fried sage leaves in bacon grease, and cooked butternut squash in bacon grease, let me tell you, it’s AMAZING. Just the aroma of the fried sage and bacon together was intoxicating. Here’s the run-down of how this quiche is made.. Chop and fry up some bacon with sage sprigs.. The sage leaves get nice and crispy, which makes them easy to chop up as well. Set those aside and cook the butternut squash in the same pan until nice and soft. All of this deliciousness gets sprinkled into the dish fitted with a pie crust, and tucked in with a blanket of shredded gruyere cheese. Then the filling gets poured on top, and bake it away! I tested this out by bringing it to a holiday brunch party, along with my Bacon Leek and Thyme Quiche, and both were gone in an instant. It even converted some people who claimed not to like quiche, into quiche-lovers. If you bake this, make sure to tag @sprinkledwithjules on instagram and use the hashtag #sprinkledwithjules. Happy baking!