Whatever you want to call these egg dishes, I love making them. I find it hard to eat eggs on their own but I will happily eat them mixed with veges and lots of flavour. These are especially easy and healthy because there is no pastry base required, which is great because making my own pastry is a little hit and miss.
You can add whatever you want to a frittata, just be mindful of the liquid content as you don’t want to add too much otherwise it won’t set properly. Other than that, you can experiment with different flavours and ingredients. I don’t eat a lot of cheese but I do love strong flavours (or as I like to call it, stinky cheese!) and you could add parmesan, fetta (another favourite of mine), or what you like.
Ingredients:
- 1 onion finely chopped (quartered for TM)
- 2 garlic cloves crushed (peeled for TM)
- Oil or ghee for frying (I use macadamia oil)
- 5 large eggs
- 1 grated carrot (roughly chopped for TM)
- 1 grated zucchini – squeeze out excess liquid (roughly chopped for TM)
- 1 tbsp veg stock paste (if you don’t have any just add 1 tsp sea salt)
- 1 tbsp mixed herbs
- ½ cup plain flour (rice, buckwheat, quinoa or spelt flour, which contains gluten)
- 1½ cups grated full fat cheddar cheese – half in the recipe and half to sprinkle on top. (Or cheese of your choice, a mixture of parmesan and tasty cheddar is delicious).
- ½ cup sun-dried tomatoes chopped or sliced (optional, but yummy)
- ½ cup peas
- Cooked bacon chopped (again,optional, but yummy)
- Roast pumpkin/sweet potato (pre-cooked)
Method:
- Place onion, garlic and herbs into a fry pan and fry until onions start to go soft.
- Whisk eggs and flour in a large bowl.
- Add fried onions, ½ the cheese and all other ingredients, except the roast vegetables, and mix well.
- In a lined baking dish place roast pumpkin & sweet potato to cover the bottom then pour mixture into the dish.
- Sprinkle remaining cheese on top.
Thermomix method:
- Place onion & garlic in Thermomix speed 6, for 5 seconds.
- Add herbs and oil and fry 2 mins, 100°, speed 1.
- Add carrot & zucchini roughly chopped, speed 5 for 5 seconds.
- Add eggs, stock paste (or salt), ½ the cheese, sundried tomatoes, flour & mix speed 4 for 10 seconds.
- Add (extras) peas, bacon, etc and mix on reverse, speed 2, 5 seconds or until all combined.
- In a lined baking dish place pumpkin & sweet potato to cover the bottom then pour mixture into the dish.
- Sprinkle remaining cheese on top.
Cook at 190° C for approx. 40 mins or until browned on top and cooked in the middle. I usually push down gently in the middle to see if its firm, or dip a skewer.
Cool in the dish for about 5 mins then turn out onto a wire rack.
Cut into squares and serve with a salad or cooked vegetables (my favourite is broccoli). I also keep leftovers and have them for breakfast or lunch with a salad the next day.