Hatch Green Chile Quiche is made irresistible with bacon and lots of cheese. With a flaky homemade pie crust, half and half, eggs, and just right spicy with green chile peppers, this is an easy breakfast quiche recipe that is most certainly a crowd pleaser.
If you’re chile pepper crazed like us, don’t miss my post on Hatch Green Chile Recipes.
Hatch Chile Peppers, They’re An Obsession
Gentlemen…start your roasters.
Hatch Chiles are here. Each Fall, we celebrate the arrival of Hatch Chile peppers. Parking lot and roadside stands fire up their chile roasting drums and the aromas of New Mexico chiles fill the air.
We evangelize and we obsess. We talk constantly about them and we add Hatch chile peppers to almost everything.
We clear out our freezers to make room for as many packages of roasted chile peppers as we can possibly squeeze in. A Winter stash is a cache to cherish.
Freezing Roasted Hatch Green Chile Peppers
I always purchase a large amount of roasted green chiles. When I get home, divide them into individual packages, eight per package and then seal and freeze them after using my beloved vacuum food sealer machine.
Popped into the freezer, they keep for months.
To use, just thaw, cut off the tops, remove seeds and most of the charred skin. I like to leave a few small chunks of that smoky skin for extra flavor.
Only need three chiles from that frozen package? Just thaw enough to separate out the amount of chiles you want to use. Then pop the rest back into the freezer. It works really well to refreeze the unused portion.
Tip: never rinse Hatch Chile Peppers under water to remove the skins. You’re washing away the flavor. Just remove the charred skin with your fingers. You don’t need to get every little piece of skin. Again, leave a bit for flavor.
If you don’t have access to a roadside stand chile roasting operation, you can purchase fresh Hatch chile peppers and roast them yourself.
I’ve done this by placing them on a sheet pan and roasting them under an oven broiler. You have to watch them closely and when the skin starts to blister, turn them over and roast the other side.
Then place them in a plastic bag, unsealed and let them steam for about 10 minutes. You can freeze them at this point, or store them in the refrigerator and use them over the course of the next few days.
Hatch Green Chile Quiche Recipe with Cheese and Bacon
To celebrate chile season, I’ve made this Hatch Chile Bacon Quiche recipe, and wow was this cheesy green chile quiche ever delicious.
The Hatch flavor was the star, even beating out the bacon …if you can imagine that.
I used eight medium heat chile peppers for this recipe. We loved every single Southwestern bite. It was just right spicy.
Simple with ingredients
- Hatch Green Chile Peppers
- Crumbled cooked bacon
- Monterey Jack Cheese
- Cheddar Cheese
- Chopped Onion
- Half and Half
- Eggs
Don’t have Hatch chile peppers? Substitute roasted poblano peppers.
Please make a homemade pie crust. So much tastier and more pleasing texture than store purchased. Something every home cook should learn to do. There’s such a vast difference, you’ll wonder why you don’t make more quiche recipes.
You can take a look at the homemade pie crust technique that I learned in Culinary School for reference.
Want to make this green chile quiche crustless? Just spray the deep dish pie plate with PAM and then layer in the ingredients. Bake per instructions below.
This quiche is easy to build. Let’s take a look.
After you cook the bacon bits, place them in an unbaked pie shell along with chopped onions and chopped hatch chile peppers.
Top with your choice of cheese. Cubed cheddar and cubed Monterey Jack Cheese, or a combo of cheddar and shredded three cheese Mexican blend.
Pour in the egg and half and half and egg mixture.
Bake for 45-ish minutes at 350 degrees or until a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Recipe for Hatch Chile and Bacon Quiche
This Hatch Chile Bacon Quiche was such a treat. Cheesy, chile-y and with bacon, who can resist a slice?
I hope you give this green chile quiche recipe a try and if you do, please come back and let me know how you liked it and give the recipe a star rating. Your feedback is valuable to me for developing future recipes.
And if you have a favorite southwestern quiche recipe, let me know. I’d love to give it a try.
More Green Chile Breakfast Recipes
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Hatch Chile and Bacon Quiche
Ingredients
- 1 Pie Crust
- 4 strips bacon cooked and crumbled
- 1 cup Monterey Jack Cheese small cubes
- 1 cup Mild Cheddar Cheese small cubes
- 1/2 cup Hatch chiles roasted, peeled and rough chopped. 4 – 8 chiles depending on size. Add more if you'd like more spice.
- 1/4 cup sweet onion chopped
- 1 1/4 cup Half and Half
- 4 Eggs
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Gently press homemade pie crust into 9-inch deep dish plate.
- Cook bacon in large skillet over medium heat until brown. Drain grease and pat with paper towels to remove excess grease. Crumble bacon.
- Sprinkle bacon, Hatch chiles onions over the pie crust. Add the cheese cubes.
- Mix together half-and-half, eggs, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Once mixed, pour mixture into crust.
- Bake quiche for 30 – 40 minutes, or until knife inserted into center comes out clean.
- Let quiche stand for 5 minutes. Cut into wedges and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Hatch Chile and Bacon Quiche … It’s What’s for Breakfast.
Looking for more recipes using Hatch Chiles? I’ve got some!
- Easy Breakfast Tacos with Hatch Chile Potatoes and Scrambled Eggs
- Achiote Chicken Breast with Fresh Roasted Hatch Chile Sauce
- Hatch Chile Dip
- Hatch Chile Hummus
- Hatch Chile Macaroni and Cheese
- Hatch Chile Chicken Tortilla Soup
- Hatch Chile Chicken Burgers
- Hatch Green Chili, Colorado Style
- Hatchamole and Scrambled Egg Sandwich
- Overnight Hatch Chile Breakfast Burritos
Why Trust These Recipes? Lea Ann Brown has lived, worked and played in Colorado for 45 years. She has immersed herself in the Colorado Culinary space, is a Culinary School Graduate and publishes her Colorado food Blog, Cooking On The Ranch.
Going to try looks amazing
Can I use oat milk instead of half and half?
Good Morning Suzette
I’ve never used oat milk, but I did google your question and came up with this answer. Here’s the link:
https://kitchenseer.com/substitutes-for-milk-in-quiche/
Let me know if you have any other questions and make it a delicious day.
Use strips of whole roasted peeled green chile layered in the pie pan like crust instead of pie crust for an extra kick of green chile. Great if watching carbs.
Hi Barbara – I love that idea. Thanks so much for sharing. Gotta give that one a try.
The Hatch green chili bacon quiche is great! The only thing wrong is the picture of it. It looks like a different quiche. Please redo the picture.
You know i pined for these forEVER in Montana. When I saw them at the grocery I bought a boat load and roasted them on the grill. We’ve had some amazing rellanos and enchiladas – even tried it in mac n cheese today at Trader Joe’s . This sounds scrumptious and I am going to print your crust/recipe. Yum, made my day!
You know i pines for these forEVER in Montana. When I saw them at the grocery I bought a boat load and roasted them on the grill. We’ve had some amazing rellanos and enchiladas – even tried it in mac n cheese today at Trader Joe’s . This sounds scrumptious and I am going to print your crust/recipe. Yum, made my day!
Now that’s a beautiful quiche! It smelled great too when it came out of the oven! 🙂
I was just in Austin on vacation and it was hatch chili time! I may have forced my husband to purchase a carton of hatch chilis – which were roasted on the spot – then spent 2 hours frantically peeling them for the plane ride back to PA! 🙂 The box made it – clearly after being inspected and retaped by airport security!
I’m looking forward to all my hatch recipes!
Fabulous! How fun that you took those chiles home with you. Let me know what you make.
Love this recipe! Hatch chilies come in various sizes. It might be helpful to have a measurement of chopped chilies. Our Hatch chilies are HUGE this year and I really am doubtful that this recipe needs eight. Four? One cup of chopped chilies?
Hi Cindy! Absolutely, and thanks for your note. I’ve made changes to the recipe.
I’m glad to say that Hatch chilies have finally made their way to Wisconsin! One locally owned chain or groceries stores even had special roasting days recently. Sadly, with this broken wrist, I wasn’t able to make it but at least I know they’re on the radar here now. Love that quiche!
YAY! Thanks Susan.
I’m so excited for the Hatch- I think this weekend at Wilmore, I’ll be buying the first round of the chili stock up! Quiche is something that I always make with green chili! Yours looks delicious!
Shoooot! If I’d read this earlier in the day, I could be having this for dinner! Oh well … another day. Boy, does this sound right up my alley!
I love quiche and make it every once in a while. Never would have thought of using Hatch chilis! They are carrying them in my local grocery so I’ll definitely have to try this!
Looks delicious LA and I love quiche – we ran across our first roasting chiles the other day and they sure smelled good.