Vegan quiche Lorraine is rich, yet light and fluffy, and it's packed with plant-based bacon power!
Y'all, I am thrilled to share this Vegan Quiche Lorraine recipe as part of the blog tour for Leinana Two Moons's new vegan cookbook: Baconish. Baconish is a whole book dedicated to the different ways that you can make vegan bacon, and it did not disappoint!
There's a joke in the vegan community that vegans can make bacon out of anything, and this book proves that it's funny because it's true. Get the vegan quiche Lorraine recipe from Baconish below!
More bacony goodness: Get my bacon cashews recipe!
A Little Bit About Baconish
Baconish starts out with the basics: a little introduction about bacon and 14 different "Meet the Bacons" recipes.
I like that in the book's intro, she doesn't shy away from touching on our culture's obsession with bacon. In her introduction, she says, "I hope this book will interest everyone who loves bacon - and everyone who loves animals even more than they love bacon."
Me, too!
From there, she shares breakfast recipes, soups, salads, sandwiches, sides, main dishes, and even desserts packed with vegan bacon goodness.
The vegan quiche Lorraine recipe is from the breakfast chapter, and I'm so glad that I chose it to try first. It's pretty quick and easy, and the results are just delightful.
More Recipes from Baconish
Want to check out some other recipes from the book? Here are a few other reviews of Baconish featuring different recipes:
Making Vegan Quiche Lorraine
To make her vegan quiche Lorraine, you can use homemade or store-bought bacon and a homemade or store-bought pie crust.
Leinana has two kids, so she totally gets maybe not having time to cook everything from scratch. Whichever direction you go, I think you'll be really happy with this recipe and with Baconish!
This recipe truly couldn't be simpler. Start by grinding raw cashews to a cornmeal-like texture.
Then, just toss a few other ingredients into the blender, stir in cooked vegan bacon and vegan cheddar shreds, pour it all into a pie crust, and bake.
The total cooking time is about an hour and 20 minutes, but over an hour of that time is baking and cooling time. You can be doing other things while the quiche cooks and cools.
After you bake and cool your quiche, serve up slices with a sprinkle of fresh chives and prepare to be delighted.
Choosing a Pie Crust for Your Quiche Lorraine
If you don't want to make a pie crust from scratch, you totally don't have to. You also don't have to pony up for an expensive vegan pie crust.
Many brands of conventional pie crusts are vegan! Just check the ingredients of the frozen pie crusts in your grocery store. The ingredients to keep an eye out for are:
- butter
- cream
- milkfat
- butterfat
- egg or albumin
- lard
- oleic acid or oleinic acid
- whey
Don't let that list intimidate you, though! There are plenty of accidentally vegan pie crusts at the grocery store. Start with the store brand crusts, because those tend to be animal product-free, in my experience.
Got your vegan pie crust ready? Let's make come bacony, creamy, Vegan Quiche Lorraine, y'all!
Vegan Quiche Lorraine Recipe from Baconish
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup raw cashews
- 14 ounces soft tofu - drained
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons nutritional yeast
- 1 tablespoon white miso paste
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 cup chopped seitan bacon - or your favorite vegan bacon
- 1 cup vegan shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 9-inch vegan pie crust
- chopped fresh chives - for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. In a blender or food processor, pulse the cashews until they are finely ground. Add the tofu, cornstarch, nutritional yeast, miso paste, mustard, salt, and onion powder, then blend again until the mixture is very smooth.
- Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bacon pieces and cook until they are browned and crispy, 5 to 6 minutes.
- In a large bowl, mix the tofu filling with the bacon and cheese. Pour the filling into the prepared pie crust and bake for 45 minutes, until deep golden brown on top. Cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Garnish with chopped fresh chives before serving.
Michelle
Sounds so delicious, I will be serving this when my meat loving family visits this summer!
Greg @ Full of Beans
I bet a lot of people would really love this one - great idea. This will be bookmarked for the next sunday brunch
Vegan Heaven
I LOVE vegan quiche and this one looks just perfect. Yummy! 🙂
Linda @ Veganosity
That is one good looking quiche! I love making vegan bacon. My Portobello bacon is one of the most popular recipes on my blog. I have to check out this book! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Sara M Lopez
My Favorite vegan bacon would be tofu bacon so far. Can't wait to try more!
The Vegan 8
WOw, that looks like one incredible hearty quich! SO many flavors!
Lucie @WIN-WIN FOOD
I love quiche! It's the perfect comfort food 🙂 This one looks amazingly creamy and I love the seitan bacon in there!
Sophia, Veggies Don't Bite
I love a good quiche! That miso in there I bet gives it an amazing flavor. Looks delish, what a fun book!
Piper
My fave is Eggplant bacon-yum!!
Ellen
I haven't found one I really like, yet!
Lydia Claire
My favorite is shitake mushroom bacon!
Corrine
I haven't tried a non commercial vegan bacon so it's hard to say. I still haven't found a commercial one yet that compares to the real thing but I'll never go back to an animal based bacon.
Roseanne
My favorite is seitan bacon. I have yet to try making coconut bacon!
Ann S
This recipe looks great! I will definitely give it a try. I like tempeh bacon pretty well, and I tried a recipe for bacon made from portabella mushrooms that was pretty good too. I want to try eggplant bacon next.
Jackie of Vegan Yack Attack
Quiche is something my mom always made for dinner when I was younger and this one seriously looks even more delicious than the ones that I loved!
Karen D
I like coconut bacon.
Paula
I love quiche, & this looks like a delicious one! My favorite "bacon" is tempeh bacon.
Linda
I've never had vegan bacon before! I had no idea there were so many varieties. My favorite sandwich in the world used to be BLTs. But I love animals more so gave it up. I would LOVE to win a copy of this great-sounding book because my budget is so tight. Was happy to find your FB page and have also subscribed to your newsletter 🙂
Turtlemoon
looks delish! I have tried a couple of veggie bacons but really still enjoy the homemade tempeh bacon best. Want to enter but for some reason my pc has stopped communicating with any rafflecopters and i cannot figure out why 🙁
Becky Striepe
Oh man, that stinks! I hope you can get it sorted.
Aimee / Wallflower Kitchen
Wooooow this looks good!! I wish I was in the US so I could enter 🙁
Mel @ avirtualvegan.com
That quiche looks amazing and I love the sound of the book. Entering your giveaway now....
Alisa @ Go Dairy Free
I just got a copy of that book - it looks so creative! This quiche looks like a must make from it.
Amy L
i love the crunchiness of mushroom bacon! Super yum 🙂
charj
My favorite vegan bacon is dehydrated eggplant bacon.
Sheila
I like coconut bacon, but would like to try some others.
Natalie | Feasting on Fruit
My mom used to make a non-vegan quiche that looked exactly like this...or should I say this looks exactly like it...either way the fact that this is vegan is unbelievable and making me hungry! I actually haven't tried any vegan bacon 😮 I don't really eat much tofu or tempeh and I haven't gotten around to making the mushroom or coconut kind. But I'd do it for quiche 🙂
Leah M | love me, feed me
I really like shitake bacon!! And coconut bacon because it's so crunchy and works in sweet or savoury dishes! This quiche looks amazzzzzzing!!
Jenn
I've had tempeh bacon before which was really good, but I've never tried to make my own version at home. I would love to check out this book and see all the options. And this quiche looks so delicious! Just like the real thing!
Hedi
Can you believe I have never tried any vegan bacon? Always find it a bit strange to taste, like I am kinda cheating or something :-)))) Book sounds fantastic!
Jacky
Tempeh and tofu are always good but I love a good eggplant or shiitake bacon!
Cheryl Gillean
I have not had the pleasure of eating any plant based bacon. Would love to know how to make it.
Natalie
So far I have only tried coconut bacon and tofu bacon. I would love to win this cookbook and expand my bacon repertoire!
Kristina
my favorite vegan bacon is probably shiitake bacon!
Kristina
ack - my comment got away from me! 🙂
in addition to shiitake bacon, I tried the NEWEST bacon over the weekend, rice paper bacon! it was good and I have so many plans... ha!
Becky Striepe
I can't wait to try that one. So innovative!