This easy Ham and Cheese Quiche recipe uses pre-made pie crust for a quick breakfast. The creamy egg custard is layered with ham, cheese, green onions, and cheese.
In this recipe I have also included my favorite quick and easy blender hollandaise sauce that is an easy way to notch up your breakfast game. If you’re looking for some other breakfast options, try these Whole Wheat Pancakes, Strawberry French Toast Bake, or this Bacon and Mushroom Quiche.
Easy Ham and Cheese Quiche Recipe
Perfect for Easter breakfast, a weekend brunch, or just a lazy weekend at home, this ham and egg quiche is made super simple by using a premade pie crust. It’s got a creamy egg and cheese custard full of diced ham, peppers, and onions that only takes a few minutes to prep before it hits the oven.
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Around the holidays, this is also a great recipe for using up leftover ham. In fact, you can really play around with different meats, cheeses, and veggies to customize your quiche. Serve this with our quick and easy blender hollandaise sauce for a simplified quiche that still pulls out all the stops.
Main Ingredients Needed
- Eggs – the better the eggs, the better your quiche will taste! If you want to reduce the amount of yolks, you can substitute egg whites for half of the eggs.
- Butter – the butter is used for cooking the onions but it also adds loads of flavor to the custard.
- Onions – you will need either white or yellow onions that will be cooked in butter along with the peppers.
- Milk – to make the creamiest custard, use whole milk or even substitute half and half.
- Ham – dice your ham into small pieces. You can use leftover ham or sliced deli ham. Other great meat substitutes would be bacon or sausage.
- Shredded Cheddar Cheese – you will need half of the cheese to mix into the filling and half to sprinkle over the top just before baking. If you want to try different cheeses, mozzarella and/or goat cheese would be great.
- Red Bell Pepper – these should be cleaned and diced before using.
- Seasoning – I used garlic powder, salt, pepper, and crushed red pepper flakes.
- Bread – your bread should be cut into small cubes. I like to use French bread because it soaks up moisture really well. One little trick is to actually substitute shredded potatoes or sweet potatoes for the bread.
- Pie Crust – you can use a premade pie crust or make your own homemade pie crust if you want.
For the Blender Hollandaise Sauce
- Egg Yolks – reserve the whites for something else.
- Butter – salted or unsalted will work. If you use salted, reduce the additional salt by a bit.
- Lemon Juice – the lemon juice adds flavor and also helps to coagulate the yolks.
- Hot Water – you may need a little more or less hot water, so be sure to have enough on hand but pour slowly because you might not need it all.
- Seasoning – I used salt, pepper, and cayenne powder
How to Make Easy Ham and Cheese Quiche
- Prepare the pie crust. Take the pie crust out of the fridge and let it get to room temperature (or make the crust if you are making it from scratch).
- Cook the onions. Cook the onions in the butter until they reach a light caramel color.
- Whisk together the custard filling. Whisk together the eggs, then add the milk, ham, cheese, peppers, and seasoning.
- Line the pie dish with the crust. 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)
- Assemble the quiche. 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.
- Bake. 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!
Frequently Asked Questions
You can make your own pie crust, but this is also a great recipe to take a little shortcut and use a premade crust instead. 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.
Yes! This quiche can be made 24 hours ahead of time and stored in the fridge until you’re ready to bake it. If you do make this ahead of time, just be sure to remove it from the fridge about 20 minutes before you bake it so that the egg mixture and the pie plate have a chance to come to room temperature a bit.
Easy Ham and Cheese Quiche Recipe
Ingredients
Quiche
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup onions, white or yellow; minced
- 8 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup ham, diced
- 2/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese, (divided)
- 1/2 cup red bell pepper, diced
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 2 cups French bread, cubed
- 1 refrigerated premade pie dough
Blender Hollandaise Sauce
- 3 large egg yolks
- 1 cup butter
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1-3 tablespoons hot water
- 1/3 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Remove the pie crust out of the fridge and let it get to room temperature while you prepare the filling.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter and add the onions. Cook until the onions are a light caramel color, then remove from the heat.
- Crack the eggs into a medium-sized mixing bowl and whisk, then add the milk, ham, shredded cheddar cheese, minced red pepper, garlic powder, salt, pepper, crushed red pepper, and cooked onions. Whisk with a fork until all of the ingredients are well-combined.
- Roll the pie crust out and lay it on top of a 9" pie plate so that it hangs over by about 1/2". Press the pie dough into the edges of the pan. Using your fingers, pinch the edges to make a decorative edge.
- Add the cubed bread evenly over the bottom of the pie dough, then pour the egg mixture on top. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top of the egg mixture.
- Bake in your preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until the edges of the egg mixture are golden brown. In the meantime, make the hollandaise sauce.
- In a blender, blend the 3 egg yolks for 2 minutes. Turn the blender on low and slowly drizzle the melted butter into the egg yolk mixture (should take about 30-60 seconds), then slowly add the lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of hot water followed by the salt, pepper, and cayenne.
- Turn off the blender and taste, adding a bit more seasoning and up to 2 more tablespoons of hot water to make a thinner consistency.
- Serve quiche warm with the blender hollandaise. Enjoy!
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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.
