Sausage and Spinach Quiche

This Sausage and Spinach Quiche makes a delicious, filling and easy meal for any occasion. It’s filled with sausage, spinach, Swiss cheese, and a silky smooth custard that’s all baked into a flakey pie crust.

Looking for even more quiche recipes? Try this Spinach and Feta Quiche, Vegetable Quiche, Ham and Cheese Quiche, or these Mini Cheese Quiche.

Easy Sausage and Spinach Quiche

While quiche is typically thought of as a breakfast food, it can fit in just about anytime, anywhere.  This Spinach and Sausage Quiche makes a great light lunch or dinner and is perfect for either a casual weekend breakfast or a holiday brunch.

We like ours almost like a deep dish pie with plenty of filling to eat along with the crust.  If you aren’t feeling up for making pie dough yourself, take a shortcut and buy some premade refrigerated pie dough at the grocery store.  Frozen puff pastry will work great, too!

Quiche is also a winner because you can substitute or add just about anything that you have on hand and it will still taste great.  Eat it on it’s own, or with a simple soup and salad for a well-balanced, easy and delicious meal at home.

Key Ingredients

• Pre-Made Pie Crust – you can find this in the refrigerated section at the grocery store.  You can also substitute frozen puff pastry or make your own pie crust from scratch.
• Sausage – we recommend using classic, maple or mild breakfast sausage.
• Spinach – we recommend using fresh spinach, rather than frozen.  To make things easy, we usually use the baby spinach from a bag.
• Eggs – any type of large eggs will work.  You can also substitute half egg whites if you want your quiche to be a little more heart-friendly.
• Shredded Cheese – we recommend using Swiss or cheddar cheese.  Feta, goat cheese or mozzarella would also taste great.
• Milk – you want to use either whole milk or 2%.
• Heavy Cream – any type will work.
• Cayenne Pepper – this is optional but adds a perfect amount of heat.
• Nutmeg – you’d be surprised what a little nutmeg can do to the overall flavor.  It goes so well with eggs.
• Dijon Mustard – this is optional, but it adds a great depth of flavor to your filling.

How to Make Sausage and Spinach Quiche

1. Prepare pie crust.  Roll out pie dough to about ¼” thick and press into a 9” pie plate. Place in the freezer for a few minutes, then pull out and line the inside with aluminum foil.  Fill with pie weights or dried beans and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes.  Remove from the oven, carefully remove the foil and set aside.
2. Make the filling.  In a saute pan over medium-high heat, cook sliced sausage until golden brown, then drain on a paper towel.  Add the cooked sausage evenly over the bottom of the prepared pie crust.  Sprinkle half of the shredded cheese over the sausage, then add the spinach.  In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, cream, milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg, mustard, and cayenne. Mix until well combined, then pour over the sausage and spinach mixture. Top with remaining cheese.  
3. Bake.  Bake the quiche in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 30-40 minutes, or until the egg mixture is set in the middle.  You can test by gently shaking the pan just a little to see if the middle of the quiche is still runny.  If you still aren’t sure, insert a toothpick or knife into the center and it should come out clean.
4. Serve.  Once baked, remove from the oven and allow to cool for at least 5 minutes before slicing and serving.  Enjoy!

Frequently Asked Questions

Storing, Freezing and Reheating Instructions

• Refrigerator – wrap well with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
• Freezer – Be sure and cool your quiche completely, then wrap well in plastic wrap, followed by aluminum foil.  You can store quiche frozen for up to 3 months.
• Reheating Instructions – In order to reheat a frozen quiche, thaw it in the fridge overnight.  Once thawed, the instructions are the same whether it was in the freezer or fridge.  Just rewarm in a preheated 325 degree oven until warmed through, or about 30 minutes.  You may want to cover the crust with aluminum foil part-way through if it begins to brown too much.

More of Our Best Quiche Recipes

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• Ham and Cheese Quiche
• Ham and Bacon Potato Crusted Quiche
• Bacon and Mushroom Quiche
• 3 Cheese and Pesto Quiche
• Spinach and Feta Quiche
• Mini Cheese Quiche
• Potato Crusted Quiche
• Bacon and Asparagus Quiche
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This Quiche with Sausage and Spinach makes a great light lunch or dinner and is perfect for either a casual weekend breakfast or a holiday brunch.  It’s filled with sausage, spinach, Swiss cheese and a flavorful, silky smooth custard that’s all baked into a flakey pie crust.