Fennel-Zucchini Frittata

My mom has an extensive vegetable garden. Well, extensive by my standards anyway. When I went to visit her, we went out and picked fennel and zucchini.

 

Frittatas are easy. Chop up vegetables and sauté them in a pat of butter or dash of oil until they are soft. The only trick is what kind of pan to use; cast iron is traditional, but I am intimidated by cast iron. (I have no idea how you clean it. Something about no soap and then also rubbing oil on it. You see my problem.) You need to use something that is oven safe. This one was made in a Caphalon All Clad pan, all metal, no teflon, no wood, so, oven safe.

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Depending on the vegetables, this step might not even be necessary. But you don't want to bite into raw zucchini, that would be gross. So cook them until they are edible. Then mix in with scrambled eggs. This is the step where you add cheese. We used feta that she had in her cupboard, which was also produced locally.

Put a little more oil or butter in the bottom of the pan to keep the egg mixture from sticking. Most of your butter or oil has been absorbed by the vegetables or is already in the eggs. Pour the eggy mixture back over the vegetables.

Cook on the stove for a while until it looks like most of the egg is cooked but the top is still a little runny. Put it in the oven and bake until it's golden.

Zucchini Fennel Frittata

1 large bulb of fennel

3 small zuchhini

5 eggs

4 tablespoons butter

1/4 cup (approximately) feta or other cheese

handful of pine nuts

Preheat oven to 350.

Chop up the vegetables. I sliced everything super thin. Sauté until soft with pine nuts. While the vegetables are cooking, scramble the eggs. Pour the vegetable mixture into the eggs, stirring constantly. Add cheese, continuing to stir. Melt more butter in the pan, pour egg and vegetables back in the pan. Cook until set.

Put in oven, and bake until golden.

Transfer to a plate to serve. Be very careful, the handle of this pan is going to be very hot. It was in the oven. It might fall apart, but really, who cares? It's delicious.

*Look, I figured out how to put animated gifs in posts! Sorry if they are boring. Once the novelty wears off, there will be less animations.