Fritatta recipes

[Beck S]

Hey all 🙂

Any of you who make these, what's your preferred recipes? Also, how do you cook them?

I had one of these on holiday a while ago which was bacon, cheddar, feta and spinich and it blew my mind! They seem really easy, but I'm interested to know what people like.

 

[grovesy]

I dont even know what one is.

 

[silentsquirrel]

Fry contents - your choice - in frying pan, add beaten egg, cook until bottom set, cook top under grill. Also known as a Spanish omelette.

 

[grovesy]

For me a Spanish Omelette would be one with potatoe as well as other filling.

 

[silentsquirrel]

Yes - perhaps I should have said "similar to".

Traditional recipes differ, but basic idea the same, I just use what I have/fancy, not too bothered about what I call it!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Fry contents - your choice - in frying pan, add beaten egg, cook until bottom set, cook top under grill. Also known as a Spanish omelette.

Often served cold cut in slices I believe.

Im not quite sure how they differ to ‘crustless quiches’

 

[Docb]

Have one quite often. No fixed recipe, whatever's about. Usually add some decent sausage chopped up into the mix and throw in some mushrooms and a green pepper. Tend to leave those until the end so they still have some bite. The grilling is essential because it puffs the egg and cheese mix up. Cook in a small cast iron pan and eat it straight from the pan, that way you get all the crunch bits off the bottom. Lovely.

PS. In my world, a quiche has to have an egg and cream filling which is baked to set it. Different end product.

 

[trophywench]

Docb is 100% correct in his final sentence.

In a normal family sized frying pan though - you need an awful lot of beaten egg. If you happen to have a smaller one, use that instead if you don't happen to have well over half a dozen eggs to hand!

If you are going to incorporate spinach, it needs hardly any cooking itself, I would chuck it in the pan with the virtually 100% cooked 'other' filling ingredients and just give a few secs to 'wilt' immediately before adding the eggs. I fully expect the feta to be much the same as spinach - virtually no cooking before the egg.

Bacon bits chopped red onion and chopped red and green peppers, here.

 

[Beck S]

@Benny G That looks stunning!

So you're putting the egg over the cooked ingredients in the frying pan, cooking the egg and then finishing under the grill. Pretty straightforward! Need to get a pan I can put under the grill.

 

[Kaylz]

I generally have corned beef and mushroom these days, in the past they have included (not all at the same time I hasten to add) cheese & onion/leek, prawns, bacon, wiejska, salami, peas amongst other things xx

 

[grovesy]

What is wiejska?

 

[Kaylz]

What is wiejska?

a type of Polish sausage, I used to get mine from Aldi but they stopped selling the one I bought, think Lidl sell a variation as well xx

 

[Docb]

@Benny G That looks stunning!

So you're putting the egg over the cooked ingredients in the frying pan, cooking the egg and then finishing under the grill. Pretty straightforward! Need to get a pan I can put under the grill.

I use a small two handled cast iron jobbie - looks like Le Creuset but I bought it in Sainsburys at a fraction of the Le Creuset price. Works a treat.

PS tried to put up a picture but failed.

 

[grovesy]

a type of Polish sausage, I used to get mine from Aldi but they stopped selling the one I bought, think Lidl sell a variation as well xx

I suspected it might be.
I may give it a try if I see any but I don't shop in Lidl since they stopped selling the Protien Rolls.

 

[Kaylz]

I suspected it might be.
I may give it a try if I see any but I don't shop in Lidl since they stopped selling the Protien Rolls.

I'm there every fortnight for a stock on Salami and that and my grandad's there once or twice a week for chicken, potatoes etc, its the cheapest place in our town as only other bigger shop we have is a Co-Op which are extortionate xx

 

[grovesy]

I'm there every fortnight for a stock on Salami and that and my grandad's there once or twice a week for chicken, potatoes etc, its the cheapest place in our town as only other bigger shop we have is a Co-Op which are extortionate xx

Lidl here is across the city the other side to me across very busy roundabout. Agree that Co-op can be expensive.