Baked vegetable and chilli frittata

I’ve been cooking a lot from the Hairy Dieters book lately and have also been trying to make my own healthier recipes like the spicy 300 calorie pasta I cooked last week.

the whole loaf

This is a slightly slimmed down and adapted version of my picante tortilla recipe that i blogged about here, but without the meat and being baked instead of fried.

I worked out it contains about 360 calories per half a loaf, I served it with a nice big salad and was completely stuffed by the end, I think next time i’d maybe only eat 1/4 of it but it was just so delicious we ate the lot between us. It would also be really tasty cold on a picnic or in your lunch box the next day.

Afterwards I thought it might work well with some sweetcorn in and maybe some sun dried tomatoes so I’ll try that next time.

I also cooked mine in a loaf tin lined with greaseproof paper, if you haven’t got a loaf tin use an oven proof dish or bowl.

Serves 2/3/4 depending on how hungry you are.

Ingredients

• 6 large, fresh, free range eggs.
• 1/2 red pepper, sliced
• Handful of peas
• 2 large chestnut mushrooms, sliced
• 1/2 courgette, diced
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 50g feta cheese, broken up into chunks
• 16g Parmesan, grated
• zest of a lemon
• 1 green chilli, de seeded and finely sliced
• 3 spring onions, finely sliced
• small bunch of flat leaf parsley, chopped
• Salt
• Pepper
• 1 tsp dried oregano

Frittata slices

Method

1. Pre heat oven to 200 degrees c
2. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and fry the peppers for 2 minutes, add the mushrooms and courgettes, fry for another 2, add the chilli and spring onions and peas and fry for another minute.
3. Line a loaf tin with greaseproof paper, tip in the vegetables.
4. Gently beat the eggs in a bowl, add the Parmesan, chopped parsley, lemon zest, season with a little salt and lots of black pepper, mix well.
5. Tip the egg’s over the vegetables
6. Sprinkle the feta and dried oregano over the eggs.
7. Place in the oven and bake for 30-40 mins, until the eggs have cooked through and are no longer runny in the middle, leave to cool for 5 minutes then tuck in.