Can Babies Eat Quiche?

Quiche is a French tart containing a pastry crust filled with savoury custard and pieces of various vegetables, meat, seafood or cheese. Quiche is a popular dish served hot or cold worldwide. It is considered to be a French dish, but references from the 15^th century cookbooks prove that using eggs and cream in pastry was used in English and also in the Italian cuisine around the same time.

The most famous type of quiche is the quiche Lorraine, which originally was prepared as an open pie with eggs, cream and lardons. Lardons might be replaced with bacon, and cheddar cheese can be also included into the dish. There are other variations of quiche: quiche au fromage, quiche aux champignons, florentine and provencale, meaning quiche with cheese, or with mushrooms, or spinach or even tomatoes.

Quiche can be served well with roasted potatoes, green peas, asparagus, bacon or tomato soap.

Quiche is a good source of protein, it has all the essential amino acids our bodies need. It contains fat and carbs too. Because of its egg content it might also cause allergic reactions.

Parents can give quiche to their babies starting at the age of 8 months.

Mini Vegetable Quiche

Ingredients: ½ diced small zucchini, 4 asparagus spears, ½ cup of cottage cheese, ½ cup of ricotta cheese, 2 beaten small eggs, 3 heaped tbsp diced Cheddar cheese, 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 crushed small clove of garlic, ½ tsp dried basil.

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Remove the woody stems from the asparagus spears. Steam the asparagus for a few minutes and chop them. Beat the eggs with the cottage cheese, ricotta cheese and olive oil. Add all the other ingredients. Pour the mixture into a well greased muffin tray. Bake for about 45 minutes until the quiche turns lightly golden. Cool and then serve.