This Easy Ham and Cheese Quiche Recipe is a perfect breakfast quiche recipe. It's a recipe using pre-made pie crust and all your favorite quiche ingredients. It's layered with ham, cheese, green onions, cheese. and has the option for a delicious hollandaise sauce.
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The Best Breakfast Quiche Recipe
This egg quiche recipe is perfect for Easter breakfast, a weekend brunch or just a lazy weekend at home. It's also a great recipe using leftover ham from the holidays.
This ham and cheese quiche is also really easy to customize. You can add your favorite quiche ingredients such as ham, bacon, peppers, onions, mushrooms and any your favorite cheeses.
How to make the best quiche:
There are a few things you can do to make this recipe a little easier. You can make your own pie crust or this a great recipe to use a pre-made pie crust.
If your pie crust if frozen, take it out of the freezer and let it thaw to room temperature before you unroll it.
If your pie crust is in the fridge, set it on the counter for about 30 minutes before you need it to give it a chance to come up to room temperature before attempting to unroll it.
Variations
- This easy quiche can be made 24 hours ahead of time and stored in the fridge until you're ready to bake it.
- If you make this ham quiche ahead of time, just be sure to take it out of the fridge about 20 minutes before you bake it.
- This will give the egg mixture and the pie pan a chance to come to room temperature before baking.
- If you've never tried a blender hollandaise recipe, here's your chance. It only takes a few minutes to blend together and this quick hollandaise is delicious too.
- This hollandaise sauce recipe makes it easy to notch up your breakfast game. If you're looking for some other breakfast options, here are a few we love...
- Classic French Toast Bake
- Lemon Syrup Recipe
- Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast
- Easy Coconut French Toast Bake
Tips for Making this Easy Egg Quiche Recipe:
- You can make your own or use a pre-made pie crust
- You can use all whole eggs or substitute half of the eggs for egg whites
- Ham, sausage, or bacon work great in this recipe.
- You can substitute Shredded Potatoes for the bread. (Sweet Potatoes work great too)
- Add your favorite veggies
- Slather your egg quiche in an easy hollandaise sauce!
Easy Ham and Cheese Quiche Recipe
Ingredients
Egg Quiche
- 8 large Eggs
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- ½ cup Onions minced
- 1 cup Milk whole works best
- ½ cup Ham
- ⅔ cup Cheese half inside the quiche and half on top
- ½ large red pepper minced
- ½ teaspoon Garlic Powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- pinch Pepper
- pinch crushed red pepper
- 2 cups Bread cubed, any will do. I used French Bread
- 1 regular Pie Crust
Easy Blender Hollandaise Sauce
- 3 large egg yolks
- 1 cup butter
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1-3 tablespoon hot water
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch pepper
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Take the pie crust out of the fridge and let it get to room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a small saucepan, melt the butter and add the onions. On medium heat, cook the onions until they are a light caramel color.
- Crack the eggs into a medium-sized mixing bowl.
- Add to the eggs in the mixing bowl, milk, ham, cheese, minced red pepper, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and crushed red pepper. Whisk with a fork until the yolks are broken and the ingredients are combined.
- Roll the pie crust out and lay it on a 9" pie plate. Fit the pie crust into the pan. Using your fingers, pinch the edges to make a decorative edge, (optional)
- Add the cubed bread to the pie plate and pour the egg mixture on top. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top of the Egg mixture.
- You can make this up to 24 hours ahead of time or bake soon after assembly.
- Bake for 60 minutes or until the edges of the egg mixture are golden brown. Let it cool for 5 minutes before serving. Serve with a drizzle of the hollandaise sauce. Enjoy!
How to make Easy Blender Hollandaise Sauce
- In a small saucepan or microwave, melt the butter.
- In a blender, blend the 3 egg yolks for 2 min. Turn the blender on low and slowly drizzle the butter into the egg yolk mixture (should take about 30-60 seconds) slowly add the lemon juice and the hot water. Add the pinch of salt, pepper and cayenne pepper while blending.
- If you want your hollandaise a little thinner in consistency, slowly add 1-2 Tablespoons of hot water.
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This Easy Ham and Cheese Quiche Recipe is a perfect breakfast quiche recipe. It's a recipe using pre-made pie crust and all your favorite quiche ingredients. It's layered with ham, cheese, green onions, cheese. and has the option for a delicious hollandaise sauce.
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