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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My husband and I both loved this quiche. I doubled everything and made two. Froze one for
another time. It can be frozen right?
You can freeze it, yes. I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
I made this today using Jimmy Dean frozen turkey sausage crumbles. I heated them with some scallions and peppers before adding to the pie shell. It was delicious!!
Fantastic. We added sliced mushrooms and diced red, yellow and orange pepper instead of green.
Use chopped white onion instead of the scallions. Had to use 1 T of regular yellow mustard.
So very good and delicious!
Can I mix this up night before and bake next morning and the crust will not be soggy?
I wouldn’t recommend it. You could prep everything and have it ready to pour into the pie shell.
Can i use heavy cream and ground sausage?
You can use heavy cream. This recipes does use ground sausage, yes.
It is simple and easy, but best of all it is GREAT to eat.
Thanks so much!
Added some veggies but rest the same. I believe this was the best quiche I have ever made. Wish it would let me add my photo.
Thanks so much!
Hi!!!
I just wanted to see if I could make this as crustless quiche?
Let me know!
Diana
Most quiche recipes can be made without a crust and this one is no different.
Absolutely delicious! I used this with a oat crust and it turned out great. Thank you!
Thank you!
Super easy to make and delicious! I didn’t have cream or half and half. Worked perfectly fine with 2% milk. Even the little grandkids loved it!
Hi so you think I can use the refrigerated pie crust? Deep dish?
As long as it’s in a deep dish pie pan, sure!
I am wanting to revamp and old sausage quiche I made for years. Just bored with it! This looks good. I will try a little nutmeg and wondered about using hashbrowns as I prefer crust less quiches. How would you incorporate them into your recipe? Would you have to brown the hashbrowns at all?
Perhaps this recipe will help it has a hash brown crust.
This was delicious! My first time making a quiche and for the most part it went well! My crust must be smaller than the one in the paranthesis. I don’t recommend the Great Value Traditional Crust for this recipe because my filling overflowed which turned into a smokey mess! I will definitely go for deep dish crust next time! Thanks for the recipe!
Hi Brianna, oh dear yes you need a deep dish for this, or any, of my quiche recipes. I’m so glad you loved it, thanks!
It was so good! Our friends spent the whole meal trying to guess the “secret ingredient!” Will definitely be making again!
I’m glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Hi, I’m going to make this tonight, but I have a question . do you think that there is enough grease from the sausage to make gravy ? We love sausage gravy !!
Hi Susie, it really depends on the brand of sausage. Jimmy Dean is so lean I often have to add it. So, it just depends.
Hi Melissa,
How many people does this specific recipe feed?
You’ll get 8 servings from this recipe.
Why would you want to make gravy? This is a quick recipe.
I love quiche. I love eggs and “breakfast “ at any time of day. This recipe is wonderful! Not a lot of ingredients that are not staples in the house anyway, and easy prep are essential to me for to keep it as a “go to” recipe to use time after time. I always tweak my cooking and baking, and the only thing I added was some nutmeg. I’ll be sharing this to family and friends!
Thanks so much!
I tried it and enjoyed it very much. I am making it again this week.
Wonderful, thanks so much!
Can you use 2 regular pie crusts instead of one deep dish?
You may be able to stretch this into 2 quiche but they would be thin. If you try it, let us know how it goes.
I have been looking for a great sausage quiche recipe for some time now and this was amazing!
I’m so happy you loved it, thanks!
This is the easiest and best quiche we’ve tasted. Made is last Sunday and we had overnight guests the next week so made it again and it was a big hit!
Thanks so much!
Delicious quiche! I will definitely be making it again, and again. I didn’t have any green onions so added a handful of fresh spinach and some sautéed mushrooms. Everyone loved it. Normally I make my own crust but there are times when I am pressed for time and need a frozen one. Thank you for the heads up on the Harris Teeter deep dish crust.
I’m so happy you loved this, thanks!