Bacon and Cheese Quiche is a simple and delicious recipe. Easy to make, it’s perfect any time of day.
I love, love, love homemade quiche, and this bacon and cheese quiche recipe is my easiest yet. The combination of bacon, eggs, and cheese with a flaky crust always gets raves from my family. Give it a try, and you’ll be raking in the compliments, too!
I guess technically, it’s a breakfast recipe, but my family can eat quiche for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. My son, Madden, even loves it as a snack! Well, he loves it any time of day, and I am right there with him – morning, noon, or night. I love a slice of homemade quiche.
This bacon and cheese quiche is my newest creation, and it’s so ridiculously easy to make. I used my sausage quiche as the base but switched out the meat and cheese.
As far as the crust, we’re using a refrigerated dough as a shortcut but feel free to use your favorite homemade pie crust. I like to keep it easy, and the premade dough is always my friend. Oh, and you can put away the pie weights because you don’t need to blind bake the crust first. I told you it was easy!
Crispy bacon, Colby cheese, and seasonings combined in the egg filling is simple to make, but it delivers big in the flavor department. This is the quiche to make when you’re short on time but need a great meal. It never disappoints.
Ingredients
- Refrigerated pie dough round
- Chopped cooked bacon
- Shredded Colby cheese
- Diced yellow onion
- Large eggs
- Half and half or whole milk
- Dry mustard
- Salt and black pepper
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Recipe Steps
Preheat oven to 400° F (200° C). Fit the pie dough into the pie pan.
I like basing the bacon, cheese, and onion in the crust. Or, you can mix the three together in a bowl and then add the mixture to the pie plate.
Combine the eggs, half and half, mustard, and salt and pepper in a medium bowl; combine the eggs, half and half, mustard, and salt and pepper. Pour the egg mixture over the other ingredients in the crust.
Whisk the eggs and half and half in a bowl with seasonings, and pour the egg mixture over toppings in the pie crust.
Bake the quiche in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 350°F and continue baking the quiche for 35 minutes.
When it is done, the top of the quiche will begin to turn a nice golden brown. At this point, remove it from the oven and let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes at room temperature before serving.
Recipe Variations
The exact amount of diced ham or pancetta in place of the bacon is an easy swap you can make. You can also use turkey bacon to lighten it up.
Any good shredded cheese will work in this recipe, so use what you have. Shredded cheddar, white, Gruyere, Swiss, Parmesan cheese… you get the idea. Any of these would be amazing.
For extra flavor, mix in some chopped herbs like parsley or chives. Chopped green onions or scallions would be delicious, too.
No matter what time of day you serve this bacon cheese quiche, here are a few side dish ideas you have to try!
I love quiche because you can serve it warm, at room temperature, or chilled.
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Easy Bacon and Cheese Quiche
Ingredients
- 1 refrigerated pie dough round
- 1/2 pound cooked bacon chopped
- 1 1/2 cups shredded colby cheese
- 1/2 small yellow onion, diced
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup half and half see note
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400° F (200° C). Roll out pie crust into pie pan.
- Top the pie crust with bacon, cheese, and onion. You can mix the bacon, cheese, and onion in a medium mixing bowl and then add to the pie crust. I prefer to layer it – one less dish to wash.
- Mix the eggs and half and half in a bowl with seasonings, and pour the egg mixture over toppings in the pie crust.
- Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Then reduce heat, leaving the pie in the oven to 350° F (175° C), and bake for an additional 35 minutes. When it is done the top of the quiche will begin to turn a nice golden brown.
- Remove from oven and allow to sit 5-10 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
Notes
What a tasty breakfast option! 🙂
I’m getting hungry just looking at that. This is exactly the kind of recipe that gets the day started off on the right foot.
YES!! This is always a crowd pleaser!!
We love eating breakfast for dinner. This will be a delicious addition to the rotation!
Should this be blind-baked even partially before adding the filling?
We’ve never tried blind-baking with this recipe. It bakes long enough that the crust should come out crisp and flaky as it is, but you can give it a try if you’d like!
It looks very tasty
This is so good! Such a perfect day starter!
I am drooling over this quiche. The texture is amazing!
Well this looks like the perfect way to start the day! Thank you so much for sharing!
Adding on my favorites! Everyone would definitely love this, yum!
Loved this for an easy breakfast! It was a hit with everyone in my house.
I service over the weekend and it was the perfect breakfast! Thank you for the easy recipe
This dish was a hit in my house.! I love a super easy recipe.
Nice content and recipe, it looks delicious that everyone will surely love.
This recipe looks really good. I am going to try to make it tomorrow for dinner (I usually mess up pie crusts so I’m nervous) but anyway, my mquestion is this, can you use a deep dish pie plate? If so, do you double the recipe? Thanks for your help! Ellen
Yes, you can easily do that. Sorry for the delayed response, I would maybe just 1 1/2 times it though, not double. You could always double it and fill 2/3 full, then pour the remaining in muffin tins and bake without a crust.
This quiche turned out perfectly! My inlaws were in town and I wanted to make something special and this was perfect. Everyone was raving. Thank you for the awesome recipe. It is going in the rotation.
Can this be made, and then put in the freezer for a later day?
Sorry- just went back and saw you’ve already answered! ♀️
This was good, but the cheese could have been a more flavorful one, like cheddar. I thought it was a bit bland with the colby. Other than that, it’s great. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
You are so welcome, and switching out the cheese is always easy and great to do to use up cheese in your fridge, I also love Swiss in this as well.
The best quiche ever and is so easy to make my family love’s it!!
YAY! This made my day!
Can I assemble the day before and cook the next day?
I have never tried that, so I can’t say. I have baked them the day before and then just reheated and that worked very well.