Easy Sausage Quiche
Easy Sausage Quiche is a spectacular savory pie that’s ideal for serving at any meal. Breakfast sausage, green onion and lots of cheddar cheese smothered with a seasoned egg custard combine into a classic combination of flavors that always satisfy. The preparation isn’t complicated and well worth the small amount of effort it takes to make. Serve it for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner any day of the week.
Easy Sausage Quiche Recipe
We’re huge “breakfast or dinner” fans at our house. Be it a pan of buttermilk biscuits smothered in sausage gravy, a big bowl of cheddar grits topped with bacon and eggs or big stack of buttermilk pancakes dripping with a generous drizzle of maple syrup. We’re not picky any of the aforementioned will do. How to make Easy Sausage Quiche recipe:
- Crust – One 9 inch deep dish pie shell either frozen or homemade (i.e. Mrs Smith’s or similar).
- Sausage – 8 ounces of mild or spicy pork breakfast sausage.
- Onion – Thinly sliced green onions.
- Cheese – Shredded sharp cheddar cheese.
- Liquid – Half and half.
- Eggs – 6 large eggs.
- Seasonings – Garlic salt, ground black pepper and ground mustard.
- Hot sauce
How to Make the BEST Easy Sausage Quiche Recipe
- Ingredients you’ll need to make homemade Sausage Quiche: One 9 inch deep dish pie shell, breakfast sausage, large eggs, half and half, shredded cheddar cheese, green onions, salt, black pepper, garlic salt, onion powder and ground mustard. (hot sauce is optional)
- Kitchen tools you’ll need: One large skillet i.e. 10 inch or larger to cook the sausage, measuring cups and spoons, sharp knife and cutting board, 9 inch deep dish pie pan and cheese grater. It’s also helpful to have a sheet pan to move the quiche in an out of the oven easily.
- When pouring the egg custard on top, take a fork and gently move the sausage without misplacing it, to allow it to soak down to the bottom of the ingredients. Don’t stir, just gently move.
- Serving suggestion: Quiche ranks quite high on our list for busy day meals. You may enjoy pairing it with my Easy Fruit Salad recipe for breakfast, brunch or dinner.
- In this recipe, I am purposely keeping the ingredients simple. Feel free to adapt using your favorite flavor of shredded cheese.
- You can omit the hot sauce and use spicy sausage in this quiche recipe.
- Sausage quiche can be made in advance and reheated by the piece, too.
- To reheat a whole quiche in the oven: Preheat the oven to 325°F. Lay foil loosely on top and bake for 15-20 minutes just until heated through.
- Store baked Sausage Quiche chilled in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat in single servings in the microwave.
- You can bake this quiche, cool it completely and freeze for up to 2 months. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight then lay foil on top and reheat in a preheated 325°F oven for 15-20 minutes or until heated through.
More Easy Quiche Recipes to Make
There’s no wrong time of day to serve quiche. Expand your quiche menu with these recipes:
- My recipe for Western Omelet Quiche is a fan favorite.
- This Kentucky Hot Brown Quiche recipe is a riff on the famous hot brown from Louisville Kentucky,
- You may have everything you need to make this Bacon Cheddar Chive Quiche.
- Classic cheesy Quiche Lorraine.
- Cornbread and Sausage Quiche is a delicious use for leftover cornbread!
- Ricotta Spinach Quiche is rich and decadent.
- Mushroom Quiche from Simply Recipes.
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Easy Sausage Quiche
Servings: 8
Calories: 427kcal
Ingredients
- 1 9-inch unbaked deep dish frozen pie crust (i.e. Mrs Smith's)
- 8 oz mild or spicy breakfast sausage
- 5 medium green onions thinly sliced
- 2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese divided
- 1 cup half and half
- 6 large eggs
- 1 tsp garlic salt
- 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 tsp ground mustard
- few dashes hot sauce optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place pie shell on cookie sheet. Set aside.
- In a non-stick skillet over medium high heat, cook the sausage until no pink remains.
- Add the green onion and cook for 1 minute longer. Drain excess fat from pan.
- Spread 1/2 sausage mixture in pie shell and sprinkle with 1/2 shredded cheese. Spread remaining sausage over cheese.
- In a medium size mixing bowl whisk together the half and half, eggs, salt, pepper and mustard. Add a few dashes of hot sauce, if desired.
- Pour the egg mixture evenly over the sausage filling. Sprinkle with remaining cheese.
- Place into oven and bake for 45-50 minutes or until the center is set when gently shaken. Check at 30 minutes and lay a piece of aluminum foil on top to prevent over browning if needed.
- Allow to rest for 30 minutes. Serve warm.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 427kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 32g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 13g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 201mg | Sodium: 812mg | Potassium: 221mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 622IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 267mg | Iron: 2mg
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Perfect except way too much garlic salt!
Salt is subjective in that everyone has their personal taste. If you’re sensitive to it, you should always adjust the recipe you’re making to suit your own taste.
Really delicious! Plenty for a family of four however we are a family of two so I may cut it in half and instead of a pie crust I’ll try hashbrowns for the crust. I’ll let you know how it goes, but it was easy and delicious, quick! Thanks!
My friends and family went wild over this quiche. I’m getting ready to make it for the 3rd time. We can’t get enough.
That’s awesome, thanks so much!
Great recipe! I didn’t have mustard powder on hand so I used 2 tsp of whole grain mustard instead. I’ve noticed many comments have mentioned subbing half and half for another type of milk. I used 1 cup of 2 percent and quiche came out perfect. We’re huge coffee drinkers so our half and half is treated like gold around here. My extended family loved it.
Looks yummy. What other kinds of sceese would go with this recipe. Would swiss cheese work?
You can use any cheese you like in the same amount, sure.
First time baking a quiche but I’ve always enjoyed them. Followed the directions. Turned out excellent. First time baking but definitely not the last!!!
Can i use whole milk instead of half and half?
It’s best to make this recipe as written.
Can I use heavy cream instead of half and half? Same amount?
Oh yes, no problem at all.
Would this freeze well if I were to make two? Looking to fill the freezer before a new baby!
Sure, quiche freezes well. Best wishes and congrats!
Easy to make and very good
Awesome, thank you!
This is an excellent recipe! I used regular pork sausag and thought it was rather bland but next time Jimmy Dean!
So happy you loved this!!
This is a delicious quiche. I made two and took them to work and everyone loved it! Everyone asked for the recipe.
I had an old quiche recipe that was my go to. After eating this at my friends house it is by far the best I have had. My new go to recipe
Wonderful, thanks so much for visiting!
Outstanding! Quick and easy too! Hearty enough for dinner. I didn’t use the hot sauce but instead added pepper jack cheese in addition to the cheddar. Thought the amount of seasoning was spot on…did not think it was too salty as another reviewer commented.
Thanks so much Amanda, I love the spicy cheese!
I’m going to make this for Christmas morning brunch.
Has anyone added any vegetables?
Spinach, tomato’s, mushrooms?
S
Any of those will work fine, sure.
Meiissa, I want to make this for company on Sunday, but I wanted to check if this really takes six eggs? I see another sausage quiche recipe that uses four eggs with one cup cream. I just want to make sure., Could I use five eggs? Seems with only one cup cream that would be sufficient?
Thanks much,
Brenda Trapp
You can use any recipe you choose. Should you choose this one, I recommend following the directions and ingredient amounts.
I diced a jalapeño pepper after removing seeds and most of the ribs, omitting the hot sauce. We liked this addition, just add the diced jalapeño with the green onion when sautéing!
So great for a holiday breakfast!
I LOOOOOVE quiche! This looks so fantastic!
My family asks me to make this often!
I’d be happy to eat this any time of the day!
I’m exhausted already and it’s only Monday so I love that this is so easy to make! Putting it on my menu for the week!
This would disappear in less than 10 minutes in our house. SO GOOD!