Easy Frittata Recipe

pumpkin fritattaA beautifully easy Frittata recipe to add to your weekly round up.

Little story before I launch into the recipe for this one – this week I saw a picture/recipe for cauliflower cheesecake. Yep vegetable as a cheesecake and given that I am always on the lookout for ways to eat more veges, this was a little exciting. (This was way back when I thought cauliflower was healthy.)

So I did a bit of research and found talk about it way back in 2009 and then there were one or two more recipes since then and I thought – why haven’t I noticed this before? Where have I been?

 So I gave it a whirl.

What a pile of yuk! OMG it was terrible.

Talk about a waste of other good ingredients. It was so bad that I couldn’t even eat it, so as not to be wasteful. The unmistakable sharpness of cauliflower came through the vanilla and sweet additions. I even added a bit of cacao to try and block out the cauliflower taste but it was pointless. Just totally hideous.

So this is a lesson in follow people/chefs/healthy types you trust and know that their recipes taste good. There is no point making a ‘healthy’ recipe if it tastes like a pile of crap.

(Update to this, I now eat a Dr Ray Peat inspired diet and cauliflower and all cruciferous vegetables are actually goitrogenic, meaning they damage thyroid function. So no need to eat them after all and especially not trying to turn it into a dessert.)

So on to a tried and tested recipe that tastes awesome!

I love Pumpkin Frittata because while it takes a bit to put together, it lasts for nearly a week in the fridge for a quick lunch, lazy dinner or to take to work or for the school lunch box. And I eat it hot or cold and sometimes with a bit of sweet chilli sauce.

Easy Frittata Recipe

Serves 6 (or 2 for a few days yay!)

8 eggs
1 cup of cubed lightly steamed pumpkin
1 cup of boiled potatoes chopped roughly
2 handfuls of chopped spinach (use peppers if you are strictly following Ray Peat)
1 brown onion
1 TBS butter
Salt/Pepper
Herbs of your choice (see below)

Chop onion finely and fry in butter until soft and just starting to brown.

Spread this mixture in 25cm x 25cm greased glass baking dish.

Scatter pumpkin, potatoes, and spinach over onions.

Whisk eggs and pour over the top.

Add salt/pepper to taste.

Bake in oven uncovered for 30 mins at 200 C

Herb notes:-

Now I didn’t want to add herbs to clutter up the ingredients list and make people think – well I don’t have that fresh parsley or whatever, so I can’t make it. The herbs you add, either fresh or dried are entirely your choice. Some people love herbs and know exactly what goes with what dish, and some are clueless. So to help those along who are not entirely sure what to do, here are some suggestions:-

Suggested herbs:-

Flat leaf parsley (dried or fresh)
Chives (dried or fresh)
Coriander powder (dried only)
Sweet paprika (dried only)

Traditionally this dish is ‘everything in the frying pan and then grill the top’ still in the pan. However you have to watch over it the whole time, it has to be in a special pan that won’t melt the handle. So basically it is a pain in the A. This way is a little more simple, fry/assemble/bake, which is more my lazy style!

Variations

While this is a really basic version, whatever your eating style, you can mix it up more if you get bored or depending on what you have in your fridge/pantry…

  • A handful of sliced mushrooms in the onion frying section.
  • Add sliced capsicum or fresh asparagus in the onion frying section.
  • Additional garlic in the onion frying section.
  • Mix sweet potato with the pumpkin or substitute.
  • Add Parmesan cheese or other types of sharp cheese.
  • Tuna or scallops.
  • Add zucchini – grated and the liquid squeezed out.
  • If you are a meat eater add bacon, ham or cooked chicken strips.
  • A sprinkle of olives, anchovies, pickled peppers, sun dried tomatoes or any kind of tasty options you normally use in your household.
  • 2 TBS pesto in the onion frying stage.
  • 1 cup of grated tasty cheese
  • Add ½ cup of crumbled feta

The options are endless!

So what is your favourite way to make an easy Frittata recipe?

Ole!

Kristy x

Note: Image by Adrian Alford Photography. Adrian is a multi skilled landscape photographer. See his portfolio on his website here. And subscribe to his YouTube channel here for photography tips and hints.

Note 2: For more delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes, see my book the Zen Beach Diet.

How to eat