It is very difficult to make the kids eat spinach. Mothers have to think of tons of tricks to disguise this green leafy monster that the kids are afraid of. You must have tried number of ways to get this vitamin and iron rich vegetable down in their stomach. Done making spinach patties, try make a frittata. It just takes nine ingredients to make this delicious yet healthy not so difficult snack.
Ingredients:
- 20g butter
- 1 brown onion, sliced
- 3 short-cut bacon rashers, chopped
- 200g cup mushrooms, sliced
- 80g baby spinach
- 1/4 cup chopped basil
- 250g cherry tomatoes, halved
- 8 eggs
- 1/2 cup finely grated parmesan
Method:
To start off with, preheat the grill on high. Take a frying pan. Heat it well before use. Once it is hot enough, add some butter to it. Let the butter melt. Then throw in the chopped onions and bacon rashers. Let it stay on flame until they turn brown. Make sure you do not burn them. Then add 200gm of sliced mushrooms. Cook them until they turn soft.
Once the mushrooms are soften, start adding the spinach, basil and cheery tomatoes. Make sure that the flame is low when you are adding the vegetables and let it stay low only. Beat in 8 eggs and add the finely chopped parmesan in the beaten eggs. Add these beaten eggs to the vegetable mixture in the pan. Make sure that the egg mixture is poured out even. Let it cook for about 10 minutes.
Then take the pan off the heat and place it under the grill. Grill it for at least good 5 minutes. This way you will get a nice golden brown texture to it. But don’t be in a haste to toss it off in the plate. Let it set for whole 2 minutes and then toss it in plate. Cut and ready to eat.
It serves 6 and hardly takes 15 minutes to prepare.