Freezing and Defrosting Quiche: How to Do It Right

You can easily freeze a quiche. In this article, we will tell you how this works best. You can also find out how to defrost the dish afterwards.

Freeze quiche: Here’s how

To ensure that nothing goes wrong when freezing the delicious dish, you should follow the steps below:

1. First of all, it is important that you let your quiche cool down completely after baking. However, you should then freeze the savory cake as soon as possible so that it does not spoil.
2. Now you should put the quiche with its baking tin in the freezer for a few hours so that it freezes. Pre-freezing ensures that you can then pack the savory cake better.
3. After a few hours, you can take the quiche out of the freezer and pack it airtight. To do this, you should first carefully wrap them in cling film and then in aluminum foil.
4. Then place the wrapped quiche in a freezer bag. A freezer box works well if you have previously cut your quiche into pieces.
5. Then label the wrapped quiche with the date. The hearty cake can be stored in the freezer for about half a year.

Defrosting the quiche: this is how it works

The following methods are ideal for defrosting frozen quiche:

• The oven is best for defrosting the dish again. To do this, take it out of the freezer and remove the aluminum foil and cling film.
• Then put the savory cake in the oven at 180 °C for about 15 minutes. After that it should be soft again. If it’s still hard, you should leave it in the oven.
• Alternatively, heating it up in the microwave also works. However, this method has the disadvantage that the crust of the quiche does not get very crispy.
• To reheat, place the quiche in the microwave and reheat in 2 minute intervals. After each interval, check that the savory cake has thawed and is ready to serve.