This Easy Quiche Recipe starts with a premade pie crust but no one has to know! It’s loaded with ham, cheese, and green onions and is the perfect easy breakfast or dinner!
You can really add anything you want to this easy quiche recipe — other vegetables, different cheeses or seasonings — but ham and cheese is our favorite way to do it up. I don’t know about you, but we love eggs for any meal of the day here. We’ll take any excuse to enjoy them for breakfast, lunch or dinner, and this easy quiche recipe definitely bridges the gap between all three. I love keeping my quiche recipes easy, and serving them up with lovely fruit or a beautiful fresh salad!
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There are so many variations on a classic quiche recipe, but I wanted to keep things super simple this time around. We’re starting with a premade, refrigerated pie crust and filling it with all the good stuff!
You can definitely use a premade, frozen pie crust that has already been pressed into a disposable pan if you want to make this quiche even easier, but I like to roll mine out and bake it in one of my own pie plates. That way no one has to know about the shortcuts we took!
Tips for Making This Easy Quiche Recipe:
- This recipe really couldn’t be any easier — start with a premade pie crust, and fill it with your favorite things, plus some eggs and milk.
- A lot of quiche recipes you will find have precooked ingredients and require an extra pan plus additional prep time. We are using cooked, cubed ham and green onions in this recipe to ensure this easy breakfast quiche recipe comes together as quickly as possible!
- Don’t forget to keep an eye on the quiche as it bakes — you don’t want the crust getting too brown on top as the eggs cook! If necessary, cover the outside ring of the crust with a bit of foil to prevent it from browning further.
- If you aren’t a fan of the traditional pie crust, try making a Puff Pastry Quiche or these Easy Mini Quiche made with wonton wrappers!
Can You Make a Quiche Ahead of Time?
You bet! Once baked, cool the quiche for up to two hours on the counter, and then refrigerate. To reheat, cover the quiche with foil and bake for about at 325F (until just heated). Cooling it before refrigerating helps keep the crust a bit crisper.
How Do You Make a Crustless Quiche:
If you’re looking for a gluten-free alternative, or you’re just not a big fan of crust (hey, we all have our own preferences!), you can absolutely skip the crust and just pour the egg mixture right into the pan to make this into a crustless quiche recipe. It’s that easy!
Just don’t forget to grease the pie plate first because eggs can be tough to get out after they’re cooked!
Since you won’t need to watch the crust for signs of doneness, you will just bake a crustless quiche until the eggs are completely set all through the center.
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Easy Quiche Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 single pie crust unbaked
- 6 large eggs
- ¾ cup milk or cream
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup cubed cooked ham
- 1 ½ cups shredded cheddar cheese divided
- 3 tablespoons sliced green onions
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Unroll pie crust and press into a 9" pie plate, crimping the top edges if desired.
- In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, salt and pepper.
- Sprinkle ham, 1 cup of cheese, and green onions into the pie crust and pour the egg mixture over top. Sprinkle remaining ½ cup cheese on top of egg mixture.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes until the center is completely set. Let cool for 5-10 minutes before slicing and serving.
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Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Breakfast
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This recipe is easy with clear instructions. We have made it several times and truly enjoy it. Thank you!
So easy and soooo good! Whole family loved it. Thanks!
Easy, tastes, convenient. Wheaten you are a beginner or experienced it is a winch. You can adjust recipe as well by adding cream instead of milk, add more green onions if you wish and know that the ham is optional as my family loves fixing this on Fridays and we don’t eat meat on Fridays. Anything is possible and the cheese I picked was New York White Cheddar Sharp.
Ok. So I did two different ways. I bought deep dish pie crust.
1 way I did 6 eggs and follow the instructions. That one came out lumpy on top. I think six eggs is to much.
So the second one I did. I put 4 eggs and cracked 2 more eggs and just did the egg whites. So it was 4 eggs and 2 egg whites. This one looked great. No lumps. I think it is the right amount of eggs. Either way it looks delicious. I know my husband and two babies will love this. I don’t like eggs in the morning. So this is perfect for them.
My husband loves quiche, especially next day cold from the fridge. Made this with cooked breakfast sausage and a small amount of cooked spinach. Had some leftover heavy cream and used that. Hubby is happy eating warm quiche today but will enjoy it even more tomorrow. Thanks.
Sounds delish Geri!
Recipe was delicious, removed one star for the fact that the crust at the bottom was very undercooked while everything else was perfect.
Hi Kirsten, I am planning to make this recipe soon and about the crust being undercooked do you think I should cook my crust a few mins before I put the ingredients in?
I put my frozen pie crust straight into the oven 375° for 10 minutes beforehand. That seemed to work well for me
Hi there! What is the serving size that the nutritional info is based on?
If you cut the pie into 6 slices, this is based on 1 slice.
Hi Ashley, this is my first time trying to bake:)
Am I still able to make this using the same pan that the deep dish refrigerated pie crust from Publix comes in?
I noticed the recipe said to unroll the pie crust, but with this Deep dish pie crust it’s already set,
would it ruined my Quiche?
This will work just fine.
So, my friend was coming over and I asked her what she’d like me to make for brunch. She said quiche and I was kind of intimidated to be honest. This was my first time making a quiche and I made it exactly as written. It had to be cooked for about 5 more minutes, but wow! So tasty and delicious and easy!
I’d been making Joy of Cooking quiche for years, wondering why it was always thin and liquidy and generally unimpressive. Then we had this and it was dense and stunning. A huge hit!
Thank you! I added a can of diced green mild chilies & baked it on the treager bbq. It was incredible! Added a splash of truffle oil too. This is a keeper recipe. The cheese was already grated (Swiss & gruyere) from Trader Joe’s. It was like a chili rellano. But it took an hour to bake. Thanks again.
Your recipes look amazing and so simple, I’m no way a cooking expert n I’m starting off with baking new things so thank you for the ease of actually making your recipes simple enough for me to do, the videos are brilliant as I know I’m doing it right n I’m actually enjoying it lots so thank you!!!
Very easy and quick. Didn’t heat up the kitchen on this hot summer day. I used smoked sausage and onions and spinach in mine.
Hi Holly, Can I make this with Goat cheese as highly lactose intolerance? Thank you and LOVE LOVE your recipes. Thank you so much.
I think that would be delicious Ferryal! Enjoy :)
Tasted, good. Unfortunately, I didn’t have green onion so I used the white onion I had. Still turned out decent though I’m sure the green onion would have added more punch and color.
Easy recipe and everyone enjoyed it.
Awesome!!! Seriously, just awesome!
Quick and easy with infinite variations
Love this recipe! My family is vegetarian, so I made this without the ham and it turned out great!
Easy to make, fantastic taste!