Apple and Sausage Quiche

(from abbra’s recipe box)

Source: Southern Living

Categories: Main Dish

Ingredients

  • 1 unbaked 9-inch pastry shell
  • 1 cup peeled, chopped cooking apple
  • 2 tbl sugar
  • 1 tbl lemon juice
  • Dash of salt and pepper
  • 3/4 cup chopped onion
  • 3 tbl butter, melted
  • 1/2 lb ground pork sausage
  • 4 large eggs, beaten
  • 1 (8oz) container sour cream
  • 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
  • Dash of ground red pepper
  • 1/2 cup (2oz) shredded Cheddar cheese

Directions

  1. Fit pastry in a 9-inch quiche dish. Prick bottom and sides of pastry with a fork. Bake at 450 for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

  2. Combine apple and next 3 ingredients; toss well. Cook apple mixture and onion in butter in large skillet over medium-high heat, stirring constantly until onion is tender. Remove from heat and cool 20 minute.

  3. Brown sausage in a large skillet, stirring until it crumbles; drain well. Combine eggs and next three ingredients in a large bowl. Add apple mixture and sausage to egg mixture; stir well.

  4. Pour mixture into prepared pastry shell. Gently stir in cheese. Bake, uncovered, at 350 for 35 minutes or until cheese melts and a knife inserted in center comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

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