Monday, December 1, 2014

Fritata

 I might say this often, but this is one of my favorite meals to make! It is simple and delicious and can be made under 30 minutes! I make it once a week it's so good. It is also chock full of protein and is fairly low calorie. The reason why I choose to use lunch meat and cook it with all the veggies is because it gives everything a juicy wonderful flavor. Note, sorry for the perpetually dirty stove top!

 Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 1/4 cup cream/half and half/milk
  • 12 slices of honey ham (I use Land O Frost Honey Ham)
  • 1-2 cups spinach, yes it seems like a lot, but it cooks down a ton
  • 6 mini sweet peppers or 1 bell pepper
  • 6 green onions/scallions
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2-4 ounces of cheese (really depends on how cheesy you want it.

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 450

2. Cook the meat, spinach, peppers, and green scallions over medium heat in olive oil in an oven safe pan. Cook until peppers are really soft. 

3. While the veggies are cooking and softening up, whisk together eggs and dairy product. If you want to make this a larger recipe, add 1 tablespoon milk per egg. I choose to use half and half mostly because I have found it gives it all a wonderful fluffy texture!

4. After veggies are super tender and delicious looking, add egg. You will want scramble the eggs until it is a loose wet scramble. This also adds to the texture and cuts down on cooking time

5. Add cheese evenly over top. Stick it in the oven for 15 minutes.

6. Take out of oven, enjoy beauty of fritata. Slice it up. Eat it. Enjoy!