Sausage and Cheese Quiche with Green Chile
A perfect breakfast quiche made with tasty sausage, cheddar and green chile
Ingredients
- 1 Refridgerated Pie Crust (at room temperature)
- 8 oz Breakfast Sausage (mild or spicy)
- ⅛ cup Onion (diced small)
- ⅛ cup Green Pepper (diced small)
- 4 oz Chopped Green Chile (canned)
- 2 cups Sharpe Cheddar Cheese (shredded and divided)
- 6 Eggs (large)
- 3 tbsp Milk
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Black Pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Unroll the piecrust and line a 9" pie dish with one crust - set aside.
- In a non-stick skillet, crumble and cook the sausage until no longer pink.
- Add the onion, green pepper and green chile to the skillet and cook for another minute.
- Drain excess fat from the cooked sausage mixture.
- Spread 1/2 of the sausage mixture in the pie crust and sprinkle with 1/2 the cheese.
- Spread the remaining sausage mixture over the cheese.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the milk, eggs, salt, and pepper.
- Pour the egg mixture evenly over the sausage and sprinkle the top with the remaining cheese.
- Bake the quiche in the oven for 40 minutes at 350°.
- Remove from oven and let the quiche rest for 10 minutes before serving.