Easy Baked Frittata With Wild Mushrooms

Baked frittata with wild mushrooms is the perfect recipe for picnics, easy to pack and carry, its earthy flavour brings you right back to nature. You can make it the night before and have it ready to pack.

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• When to make a baked frittata
• Ingredients substitute
• What is the best cheese for frittata
• Ingredients
• How to clean wild mushrooms
• Cooking the wild mushrooms
• Cooking the rest of the vegetables
• Making the baked frittata
• Tips
• What to serve with baked frittata
• More recipes with wild mushrooms
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When to make a baked frittata

Baked frittata is an easy dish to make and healthier than a regular frittata as it is not fried. The vegetables are pre-cooked and mixed with the eggs and some cheese. You can prepare it the day before, bring it to a picnic or pack it in a lunch box.

Here I make it in silicon cupcakes, and they don't require any coating. If you don't have the silicon cupcake you can use a regular bread loaf baking tin, just coat with olive oil and breadcrumbs and serve the baked frittata sliced.

Ingredients substitute

In this recipe, I use wild mushrooms and if you want to know how to pick wild mushrooms you can read the article: Easy Chantarelle Recipe With Potato.

If you cannot find fresh wild mushrooms you can use regular mushrooms or buy the frozen ones. While the regular mushrooms can be cooked with the other vegetables, the fresh wild mushrooms and the frozen mushrooms will have to be cooked separately from the other vegetables as they will release too much water.

Baked frittata can be made with any vegetables, though they need to be pre-cooked. You can either stir fry them or boil them for a healthier version.

What is the best cheese for frittata

Normally, Parmesan is always a good cheese to add, but if you want to use any other cheese, it will depend on what vegetables you are using. If you are using strong flavour vegetables like mushrooms or broccoli, you can use cheddar cheese, Gruyere or pecorino.

For more delicate vegetables like zucchini, carrots or green beans I would recommend a less stronger cheese like mozzarella, caciocavallo or provola.

Ingredients

• 2 lb - 1 kg wild mushrooms
• 2 zucchini
• 2 shallots
• 12 eggs
• 1 cup Parmesan
• 2 sprig of thyme
• 2 cloves of garlic
• salt
• pepper
• extra virgin olive oil

How to clean wild mushrooms

1. Cut the roots
2. Brush away the dirt with a brush or paper towel
3. Quickly rinse under running water

Wild mushrooms shouldn’t be washed under running water as they absorb water like a sponge and it will dilute their flavour. Since most of the time not all the dirt will come out from just brushing them, I usually rinse them quickly at the end.

You can watch how in the video below.

Cooking the wild mushrooms

4. Dice the mushrooms
5. In a pan, stir fry the garlic cut in slices and the thyme sprig
6. Add the mushrooms and stir occasionally until they are cooked
7. Put them aside

Cooking the rest of the vegetables

8. In the same pan, stir fry the shallots and the zucchini
9. Add the mushrooms at the end season and let it cool down

Making the baked frittata

10. Wisk the 12 eggs
11. Add the parmesan, salt and pepper
12. Mix the cooked vegetables

13. Pour in the 12 silicon cupcakes mould
14. Bake in a hot oven at 350 F - 180 C for 30 minutes

Tips

• Wild mushrooms shouldn’t be washed under running water as they absorb water like a sponge and it will dilute their flavour. Since most of the time not all the dirt will come out from just brushing them, I usually rinse them quickly at the end.
• I prefer to stir fry the wild mushroom separately from the other vegetables as they need to cook for longer and they could release a lot of water depending on whether they were picked on a raining day.
• If you use regular mushrooms instead of wild mushrooms, you don't need to stir fry them before the other vegetables
• If you use frozen mushrooms, they have to be cooked separately from the other vegetables as they will release too much water.
• To make sure the frittata is cooked you can insert a stick in the middle and if it comes out clean the frittata is done.

What to serve with baked frittata

Serve it with a salad on the side which can include any form of carbs like Caprese pasta, potatoes, chickpeas or tabbouleh.

You can also serve it with a tomato sauce to make it moist and some extra parmesan cheese on top.

More recipes with wild mushrooms

• Easy Chanterelle recipe with potatoes
• Truffle Gnocchi Sauce
• Black Truffle Recipe Pasta
• Wild mushrooms risotto

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