Cheese-Green Chili Strata

Submitted by Chef PotPie

"This was in the food section of our local newspaper. It sounds like a nice breakfast or brunch dish. It has all kinds of possibilities, too, like changing the type of cheese, bread, and meat. This is a make ahead dish, great for when you have overnight company. Time to make doesn't reflect overnight refrigeration. Let me know what you think!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 12 slices white bread, crusts removed, cubed, but first buttered with
• butter
• 1 lb cheddar cheese, shredded
• 1 lb bacon, fried crisp and crumbled (or use ham or shrimp)
• 1⁄4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
• 2 (4 ounce) cans chopped green chilies
• 6 large eggs
• 4 cups milk
• 1⁄4 cup onion, minced
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon dry mustard

directions

1. Place cubed buttered bread in a 9X13 greased baking pan.
2. Sprinkle with 3/4 of the cheese, all of the bacon, parsley and green chilies.
3. Mix eggs, milk, onion and seasonings.
4. Pour egg mixture over other ingredients and mix lightly with fork.
5. Sprinkle with remaining cheese on top.
6. Refrigerate overnight.
7. Next day, bake uncovered at 350*F for 45 minutes.

Reviews

[Colorado Lauralee]

This was our familys Christmas morning breakfast, and it turned out very good! I did use my home roasted chilis rather than the canned, & made just half the recipe in a 8" square dish. Otherwise I followed the recipe. Thanks for a keeper!!!

 

[Zachary H.]

This was very delicious! It reminds me of a frittata in a way.... very nice breakfast dish. Will make again for sure.

 

[lazyme]

Yum I made 2 servings of this and really enjoyed it. I used ham and only needed to bake it for about 25 minutes since I had such a small portion. Now I'm excited to make the whole recipe next time my kids are here for breakfast. Thanks for sharing, Laurel.

 

[Cheryl B.]

My family has been using almost this exact recipe (minus parsley and 1/2 and 1/2 instead of milk) for almost 40 years, at least. We have it for brunch on Christmas and Easter. Just add fruit salad and muffins and you have an easy and spectacular make ahead brunch. We also sometimes use crumbled cooked sausage. You can spice it up with one can hot Ortega chilis, I would not use both of them hot. ALSO, it's much easier to cube the bread THEN drizzle melted butter over it than to butter the bread THEN cube it. LOL. no greasy fingers.

 

[MrsMM]

Fantastic recipe. I looked through EVERY strata recipe and settled on this one- it was perfect. Just perfect. Directions spot on- green chilies were great- and the entire family loved it. That's high praise, too- my dad is way too particular with food! He really enjoyed it- we all did. Thank you for sharing!