Easy Breakfast Sausage Quiche is one of the kids’ favorites! A great option for Sunday brunch, or on a lazy holiday morning.
Here’s one for your lazy Memorial Day weekend! Easy Breakfast Sausage Quiche works equally well as a brunch or as a dinner recipe; serve with fruit for a filling brunch, or just add a green salad and you have yourself a full dinner.
Eggs have been on a price downswing lately and breakfast sausage is $1.99 a roll every day at my ALDI, so we’re quiche-ing it up in this May 28, 2017 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around ingredients that are either on sale or generally affordable.
This breakfast sausage quiche recipe is always one of my kids’ favorites, probably because there’s nary a vegetable in sight. You can balance that out with the sides rather than adding veggies to the recipe itself, though, in order to preserve the simple balance of the flavors. (Truth: This is not the healthiest recipe in the world, but I make it occasionally as a treat! 🙂 )
Easy Breakfast Sausage Quiche
Ingredients
1/2 roll of breakfast sausage
1/4 of a medium yellow onion, minced
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper (omit if using spicy sausage)
One refrigerated pie crust
6 large eggs
1 tsp paprika
Black pepper, to taste
Sea salt, to taste
1 cup half & half
1.5 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Directions
Cook sausage, onion, and crushed red pepper in a large skillet over medium heat, breaking up as you go, until sausage is crumbled and nicely browned. Press one prepared pie crust into a pie plate, crimp edges, and spread cooked sausage in the bottom of the pie crust.
In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, paprika, salt & pepper, and half & half. (Whisk these together well to incorporate in a lot of air, until bubbly. This will make your quiche fluffier.) Pour egg mixture over sausage, then top with shredded cheese.
Cover entire quiche with foil (tent up slightly in the middle to help it not stick) and bake at 400 degrees for 50 minutes or until set, carefully removing foil for the last ten minutes of cook time. Allow quiche to set for a few minutes before slicing.
Easy Peasy Quiche with Breakfast Sausage!
While breakfast sausage quiche does take a while to cook, the actual hands-on time in this recipe is pretty minimal. Toss your quiche in the oven while you go about your life, then toss together a salad and slice some fruit during the last few minutes of bake time after removing the foil — and dinner, it is served. Hope your family enjoys this one as much as mine does! 🙂
Makes six pieces.
Easy Breakfast Sausage Quiche, printable recipe
Breakfast Sausage Quiche
Ingredients
- 1/2 roll of breakfast sausage
- 1/4 of a medium yellow onion, minced
- 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper (omit if using spicy sausage)
- 1 refrigerated pie crust
- 6 large eggs
- 1 tsp paprika
- Black pepper, to taste
- Sea salt, to taste
- 1 cup half & half
- 1.5 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Cook sausage, onion, and crushed red pepper in a large skillet over medium heat, breaking up as you go, until sausage is crumbled and nicely browned.
- Press one prepared pie crust into a pie plate, crimp edges, and spread cooked sausage in the bottom of the pie crust.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, paprika, salt & pepper, and half & half. (Whisk these together well to incorporate in a lot of air, until bubbly. This will make your quiche fluffier.)
- Pour egg mixture over sausage, then top with shredded cheese.
- Cover entire quiche with foil (tent up in the middle to help it not stick) and bake at 400 degrees for 50 minutes or until set, carefully removing foil for the last ten minutes of cook time.
- Allow quiche to set for a few minutes before slicing.
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