What better way to start your day than with a pile of vegetables mixed with protein and choline-rich eggs! This Veggie Frittata recipe has an impressive Nutrivore Score of 542, making it the perfect meal to break your fast.
Featured Ingredients
Eggs are full of nutrients! A single serving of 2 eggs provides at least 10% or more of the daily value of 17 different nutrients, with the yolk containing the vast majority of the nutrition.
Kale is one of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet and a top food source of vitamin K and glucosinolates, which are well-studied sulfur-containing compounds that break down into bioactive molecules with impressive health benefits.
Mushrooms are by far the best food source of the non-proteinogenic amino acid ergothioneine, which has been nicknamed the “longevity vitamin” since studies show that it reduces all-cause mortality and is associated with longer lifespan!
Veggie Frittata
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter extra-virgin olive oil or coconut oil
- ½ medium yellow onion finely chopped
- ½ red bell pepper finely chopped
- 1 ½ cups mushrooms thinly sliced
- 2 cups kale chopped
- 2 cups spinach chopped
- 8 eggs
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Heat an oven proof skillet over medium high heat and turn on broiler on high to preheat oven.
- Add oil to pan. Add onion, pepper and mushroom and sauté, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are starting to soften (3-4 minutes).
- Add kale and continue to sauté, until all vegetables are cooked, 8-10 minutes.
- Add spinach, and stir until spinach is wilted.
- Beat eggs with salt and pepper and add to skillet. Let cook on stove top 1-2 minutes, stirring a couple of times.
- Place skillet in oven and broil until eggs are completely cooked, puffed up and starting to brown on top.
Hi, looks yummy! There seems to be some kind of cheese in the picture, though? But not in the ingredient list… please clarify type (mozzarella?) and amount of cheese. Thanks!
Fatima, thanks for your question. It may look like cheese peeking through those veggies, but it is simply pockets of egg white. If you don’t have any reason to leave out dairy, you could absolutely add some of your favorite cheese. Dollops of goat cheese would be delicious!
Thanks for your reply