Green Chili Corn Tortilla Strata
This Green Chili Corn Tortilla Strata is a delicious weeknight meal, or brunch dish. This Cheesy Green Chile Egg Casserole is a family favorite!
Friends, do you ever run out of time in the day to cook dinner, and then 4 pm rolls around, and you’re wondering what to make? How about making breakfast for dinner, this Green Chili Corn Tortilla Strata recipe?
Green Chili Corn Tortilla Strata
I have a few last-minute meals that we enjoy in our home, but we’ve always loved a basic strata. This time, making it with corn tortillas (gluten-free), leave out the bread!
I think you’ll love this basic recipe! It’s a quick and simple way to give your guests or family a flavorful breakfast without hours of preparation! You can also try my Overnight Monte Cristo Breakfast Casserole (but it does take a little more time), or this Baguette Ham Overnight Breakfast Casserole.
Ingredients for green chili strata:
- Corn tortillas, diced green chilies, corn and black olives
- Cheese such as Monterey Jack cheese and Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Feta or Cotija Cheese
- Eggs and milk, and salt and Cayenne pepper
- Don’t forget your favorite toppings!
What is strata?
What is a strata? It’s a layered casserole, the most common similar to a quiche or frittata, made from a mixture which mainly consists of bread, eggs and cheese. The mixture of eggs and milk is poured and refrigerated before it is baked.
Ham and Cheese strata is the most popular! You can try this Overnight Bacon and Cheese Strata!
Green Chili Corn Tortilla Strata
This Chile Breakfast Strata feeds a crowd and is even better with all the green chilies, cheeses, and olives, and corn.
It’s a crowd-pleasing recipe, easy to make (ahead!) for any meal, when you follow this simple ratio and technique.
How to make Green Chili Strata
This recipe has corn tortillas replacing the bread, and you can always throw in bacon, sausage, ham … your favorite meat.
I personally like to cook 2-3 vegetarian meals a week for dinner.
This strata is a great weeknight meal! :)
Easy Weeknight Meal
I don’t know about you, but for me weeknight cooking can become mundane. I really prefer the weekends and making new recipes, having guests over, and enjoying a potluck with friends.
In the meantime, I bought a fresh new candle for my kitchen. I love the smell of lemon, and I love to burn a candle while I’m cooking. And whipping up this strata is a breeze.
It’s the simple things, right?
Add extra toppings
This dish is also great to make ahead for weekend company.
You can also prepare this dish for if you’re taking a meal to a family. It’s a real crowd pleaser, and you can bring extra toppings.
Bring toppings such as: Salsa, sour cream, chips, olives, and guacamole. Or jalapeno, extra cheese, and fresh cilantro!
ENJOY!
Get the Recipe:
Green Chili Corn Tortilla Strata
Ingredients
- 8 corn tortillas
- 7 oz. can diced green chiles drained
- 7 oz. can sliced black olives drained
- 2 cups Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
- 2 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese, shredded
- 8 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp Cayenne pepper
- 2 cup fresh corn
- 1/2 cup cotija or feta cheese
- Jalapeno, chopped to garnish
- cilantro to garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9×13 pan with cooking spray. Cover the bottom of pan with 4 tortillas. Sprinkle with half of the green chiles, olives, cheeses, and corn.
- Repeat the layers one more time, ending with cheese on top.
- In a medium bowl, beat the eggs, milk, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Pour over the layered corn tortilla ingredients. Refrigerate for 30 minutes (or overnight).
- Bake for 40-50 minutes, until the strata is bubbly and puffed up. Let cool for 5 minutes, and serve with fresh chopped jalapeño, feta or other crumbled cheese, and fresh cilantro.
Notes
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Are the corn tortillas in the strata supposed to be deep fried or uncooked?
Uncooked!
Are the corn tortillas supposed to be deep fried to make them crisp?
You don’t ever state when the beef mixture gets added to the pan.
Thanks
No the tortillas are not fried first. There is no beef in this recipe. Thanks!
Just made this and added leftover chicken, hatch chilies, ground cumin and cumin seed. Topped with sour cream, chopped hatch chilis and cilantro for serving. Will repeat.
A Southwestern lasagna !
Made this tonight and it is so good! Thank you!
Making this for dinner tonight minus the black olives and adding some breakfast sausage I need to use up! going on day 8 of no take out! Thank you for the great recipe :)
this looks delicious! i might even try adding some cooked shredded chicken to it and serving it for dinner along with some sour cream and guacamole.
will definitely try this !!! ?
spring won’t come for a few months where I am but I look forward to the lighter evenings and that new smell that comes with spring. Opening windows and sweeping away winter!
I always have spring fever :) We start planting February 1 around here, at least that’s what my grandpa says. I’m really loving this dish Sandy – I love corn tortillas!!
I love seeing “green” popping up. In fact yesterday I noticed one of my plants leaves showing their green. I’m excited.
Your strata looks yummy. I have never made one. :) Haven’t decided what to make tonight for dinner…thinking of the lasagna soup. Yesterday when my youngest and I were at the store and I told her what I was thinking of making sometime, she looked at me like I was crazy and said “why not just make lasagna then”…we love lasagna but rarely have it..lol. I just laughed and said, “it’s just something different and it sounded good”. I’m not sure she’s convinced