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Using spaghetti squash as the crust makes a delicious and low-carb Spinach and Mushroom Quiche with Spaghetti Squash Crust. The texture and flavor of the squash enhances the spinach and mushroom flavors in this meal.

I love squash.

Shh, Mom! I can hear you from here! Not the yellow kind. Heck, it took me decades to figure out if I peeled zucchini, I didn’t mind the flavor and eat it often. Spaghetti squash, butternut, acorn, patty pan; YUM! They’re all delicious to me now. I still don’t like yellow, BUT I love LOVE yellow zucchini. I’m sure you can find it often in my posts this summer.

I JUMPED at the chance to participate in this event which is all about squash. Since I haven’t really expanded my knowledge about squash (due to my sordid past with squash) I wasn’t sure HOW I wanted to participate. Did I want to make a sweet zucchini bread or cake? Did I want to roast some acorn rings? Was butternut the way to go? Spaghetti with pasta sauce? I ran the gamut. But then I saw a quiche recipe that had a squash crust and I thought, “I can do this!”

You can see the “crust” in this picture pretty well. It wasn’t the easiest thing to make a crust out of. I highly suggest using some water to keep your fingers from sticking to the squash. Being as it’s slightly under cooked, it’s a bit sticky. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya! But it honestly didn’t take that long and much effort to make the crust.

The squash looks like hash browns in this picture.

I bet you could easily substitute hash browns with the squash in this recipe. Don’t you think? The spaghetti squash looks just like hash browns in this photograph. I’ve wanted to do a Denver omelet style frittata type thing. I think that would be delicious!  Ever since my Mom did a Denver omelet muffin type thing, I’ve wanted to recreate it on a larger scale.

Can I just say, I LOVE my Le Crueset pie pan that I won? I honestly don’t even know HOW I won it, but it’s perfect for frittatas and tortillas, and PIES! Not that I bake a lot of pies but I honestly could with this wonderful pie plate.  It’s much larger than my metal ones and holds so much more!

I love how the crust just becomes part of the quiche in this recipe. It’s not a container that holds the ingredients; it IS part of the quiche here. The spaghetti squash melds completely with the spinach, mushrooms, and egg in this case. You’ll wonder why you didn’t try this earlier. I did!  And for those doing the low carb thing, this truly is delicious and perfect!  I’m always looking for low carb recipes for Dad.

I wound up making a low carb recipe for Dad!

*confession*

I SUCKED at cutting this. I was so hungry I didn’t really cut it pretty for the photographs and cut it kind of crooked. You’re saying, “You can’t tell,” but I know you can. *I* can. If I can, you can. Thank you for being nice about it, though. But I am a firm believe that it doesn’t have to look pretty to taste delicious. And oh my does this taste delicious!

Honestly, it is so tasty! Just look at the mushroom, spinach, squash and egg goodness that is this quiche. The squash almost looks like phyllo threads as the crust, which I wouldn’t mind either. I love phyllo dough and could eat it plainly baked with just some salt and pepper or sugar, depending.

I garnished with some green onions. They highlight the shallots that are in this recipe without killing the delicate flavor of the shallots. And the green onions make it look so pretty, doesn’t it? It’s a level of flavor and color that just finishes the dish perfectly!

I LOVE this shot.

You can see how the crust browns. You can also see the egg and mushrooms. This truly is a delicious, low carb meal. I can’t wait to share this with Dad who’s doing the carb free/low carb thing. If you’re following that foodie trend, then this will be right up your alley! I just thought it was something different to try and create with squash. I’m all about the different and “outside the box” type recipes.  But, like I said, I’m also on the look out for low carb recipes for Dad to try.  I’ve sent him several “sharing” emails from my Bloglovin.  He’s a foodie, too.