HEC: Potato Frittata

Potato Frittata

Ingredients

1-2 potatoes

3-4 eggs

small onion (optional) red

Capsicum 1/4

Broccoli

Spinach

Peas and corn

Oil

Cheese

First, 'Mise en place' and then the preparation of the ingredients. For this, we would need to dice the potatoes roughly around 1cm. To begin wash and peel the potatoes--(for this recipe the potatoes do not need to be perfectly the same as each other. But if you want to do so, first, cut strips of the potatoes around the sides, so that it then turns into a rectangle shape. Cut it length-wise into around 1cm, and the same goes for the width.) But it is also fine to skip the first step which is turning the potato in a rectangular shape. Boil the potatoes until soft, while that happens, dice the onions and finely dice the capsicum.  Roughly cut the spinach, spinach naturally shrinks while it is cooked, a small cut of spinach will turn quite small in the cooking process.  As the boiling of teh potatoes come to an end, blanch the broccoli (quickly putting the vegetable in boiling water for a short period of time until it softens).

Fry the potatoes in a medium heated pan until golden or slightly darker than golden.  Make sure that with the oil, the potatoes should be of the same or mostly the same colour in each side. By that, turn the potatoes every so often to achieve. While the potatoes are being fried, whisk the eggs, put salt in until desired. The salt not only flavours the eggs but also helps to break down the proteins in the eggs making it better to whisk and blend. After the potatoes are fried, put them into the eggs as well as the rest of the ingredients. Aside from the onions (optional, capsicum and spinach), sautee it and then put it in the rest, put in also a bit of cheese. Oil the pan and pour the mixture in, medium-low heat, take a look at the bottom of the mixture and see if it has browned in the bottom, take it off the heat. Pour more cheese atop and cook in a preheated oven of around 200oC. 

Bake until teh cheese has melted and browned, then take it off and serve. For taste, it wasn't a light dish per se but still, it was good. The cheese went nice with all the ingredients but teh vegetables did not produce much of a taste. Next step could mean putting stronger flavoured vegetables in, personally, I would put garlic in, green onions would be a nice touch as well. We have not flavoured the dish to what we feel was enough, I would say increase the amount of seasoning, more salt. Lastly, I would enjoy this with a condiment or like a relish.