Super Healthy Spinach Frittata With Cheese

Let’s get healthy with this super simple spinach frittata. The added cottage cheese and parmesan adds creaminess and flavour and a mix of pine nuts and seeds adds crunch too.

What’s to love about this recipe

• This is another quick and easy recipe, ready in half an hour
• It’s super healthy, low in carbs and packed with protein
• The taste, oh the taste of spinach and cheese together with a dash of nutmeg to ramp things up, perfection on a plate!

Spinach is good for you, just look at Popeye! Well don’t actually, that was all a hoax anyway, but spinach is really good for you and you don’t really want to look like a pipe-smoking uber armed cartoon figure anyway.

Ingredients for this spinach frittata

Spinach is the star of the show in this frittata recipe. Lovely fresh green spinach packed with goodness and spring like flavour.

Eggs – free range please and large. Mine are from my own chickens who roam the garden and although a bit of a pest in the clean up department do give us the most amazingly tasty eggs.

Cheese – I have used a mixture of cottage cheese and parmesan cheese in this recipe. I like the creraminess of cottage cheese but I want the punchy flavour of the parmesan in there.

A pinch of freshly ground nutmeg really ligts your flavours. Nutmeg is often used in Mediterranean recipes to liven things up.

Nuts and seeds for crunch. I’ve opten for pine nuts plus some pepitas (pumpkin seeds) and sunflower seeds.

Ingredient alternatives

If you don’t have fresh spinach feel free to use frozen spinach but do defrost thoroughly and squeeze out as much liquid as possible before using.

Use any cheese you fancy for this frittata recipe, just whatever you have in the fridge.

How to make a spinach frittata

• Preheat the oven to 190C
• Quickly steam the spinach for 1 minute then chop roughly
• Mix the chopped spinach with the eggs, cottage cheese, nutmeg, seasoning and mixed nuts/seeds and pour into an ovenproof dish
• Sprinkle on the parmesan cheese and bake for approximately 20 minutes

How many does this spinach frittata serve?

This is a one-person recipe. Want to adapt it for more people? Then simple multiply the ingredients to suit.

How to serve a spinach frittata

I like to serve mine for lunch with a juicy tomato salad on the side. This is a seriously healthy lunch and keeps me going throughout the day,

Cut the frittata into cubes and serve as a cocktail nibble. You could even add a cherry tomato on top and skewer with a cocktail stick.

Serve this spinach frittata just as it is for breakfast or brunch as a great start to your day.

Cut into slices and pack for lunch or a picnic.

Looking for more tasty egg recipes to try? Then check these out before you go;

Spinach frittata with feta and mint

Heuvas Rancheros (Baked Spanish Eggs)

Sage and goat’s cheese frittata

Souffle omelette with Mediterranean vegetables

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