Who has never tried to make an omelet in his life? Probably, there is no such person. There are many kinds of this fairly simple, but very nutritious and unusually tasty dish, and if you do not like an omelette, then you just have not found your option yet. In different countries there are different traditions of cooking omelets, one of them is Italian frittata. The composition of fritata necessarily includes cheese, spicy herbs, in addition, this kind of omelette is necessarily prepared with a filling. As a filling use different vegetables, mushrooms, prepare frittata with smoked products, with meat and even with seafood. In general, it is the frittata that gives the full scope of the culinary imagination what to put in this dish in what combinations.
Frittata was born as well as pizza - this is another invention of Italian poor people, who spread the remains of different products in a frying pan, and to somehow decorate the taste of vegetables and make a nourishing meal, they poured everything with eggs and cheese. Gradually formed a classic frittata. The recipe is simple: in the fried onion pour the beaten eggs with cheese, and then everything is baked to make a ruddy crust.
Frittata with potatoes
A very satisfying dish is potato frittata. This dish is prepared in two versions: from raw potatoes and from boiled.
Ingredients:
- 4 potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 3 eggs;
- 50 g of hard cheese;
- salt;
- ground black pepper;
- several branches of basil;
- 30 ml of olive oil.
Preparation:
Boiled potatoes are peeled and cut into slices (not particularly thin ones), fry finely chopped onions in a frying pan with warmed butter, we put potatoes on it, salt it, pepper it, sprinkle it with finely chopped basil. If the potatoes are raw, we clean it, cut it into very thin slices (like chips) or we rub it on a grater. Potatoes fry with onion until golden brown, add salt, pepper, basil. Cheese is also rubbed on grater. We'll shoot eggs, add 2/3 of cheese to them, pour this mass into a frying pan. Top with the remaining cheese and put the frying pan with potato fritat under the grill for 10 minutes.
Summer version with courgettes
Unusually delicious will get a frittata with zucchini or young courgettes.
Ingredients:
- 2 small zucchini;
- 1 onion;
- basil;
- 4 eggs;
- 100 g of cheese;
- 30 ml of vegetable oil;
- 2 cloves garlic;
- salt and black pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Frittata with zucchini is also very quickly prepared. Zucchini wash and cut into thin straws or semicircles. Onion chop finely. We will heat the oil, fry onion and zucchini until blanching, add crushed basil and crushed garlic, salt and pepper. Cheese we rub on grater. Eggs vzobem, add cheese to them, mix well. We pour this mixture of zucchini and put the frying pan in the oven for 15 minutes. Frittata with zucchini is good with sour cream or unsweetened yoghurt.
Mixed variant
In general, vegetable fritata is an excellent option for breakfast and for light supper. It can be prepared with peppers, eggplant, corn, green peas, tomatoes, spinach.
Ingredients:
- 50 ml of vegetable oil;
- 1 sweet pepper;
- 1 vegetable marrow;
- 1 onion;
- 2 ripe tomatoes;
- 100 g of spinach;
- a handful of young green peas;
- 5 eggs;
- 100 g of cheese;
- salt, greens - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the onion finely and fry it in oil. Pepper and zucchini cut into strips and add to onions. We will cut the tomatoes in circles. When pepper and zucchini are almost ready, add tomatoes and peas. We'll shoot the eggs, add the washed spinach and the grated cheese to them. We will lay out this mass for vegetables and bake for 15 minutes. Vegetable fritata is a real decoration of the table, it is so bright and appetizing.
Mushroom omelette
Popular and frittata with mushrooms.
Ingredients:
- 300 g of champignons;
- 2 onions;
- 50 g of cheese;
- 2 sprigs of basil;
- 30 ml of olive oil;
- salt, black ground pepper - to taste;
- 4 eggs.
Preparation:
Mushrooms are washed and cut into plates. Cut the onion finely. Fry the onion and mushrooms until tender, add salt, pepper, basil. Eggs vzobem with rubbed cheese, we will fill this mass with mushrooms. Rinse the mushroom frittata under the grill for 5 minutes.