Pea and Potato Frittata - The Easiest Vegetarian Recipes! (2024)

by Chris Mosler

This week’s easy vegetarian recipe is a really simple pea and potato frittata – a frittata is, basically, a fat omelette filled with vegetables. You don’t flip it as you would an omelette, instead cooking the base on the hob and then finishing the top off under the grill. If you’re unsure what any of the cookery terms mean, they are all explained at the bottom of this post! And, if you’re still not sure, ask – either in a comment or over on social media – unless you are one of my own children when you could call your mother (or Facebook message as usual)!

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Pea and Potato Frittata – Easy Vegetarian Food for You!

Tips

• This is a nice filling meal for one on its own or you could halve it, keep one half in the fridge and have it cold for lunch tomorrow – 2 meals for the price and effort of one!
• You can use the basic recipe and jazz it up a bit, put a teaspoonful of dried herbs into the egg mixture, put some grated cheese on top of it, add broccoli instead of peas, bung in some freshly chopped tomatoes
• If 3 eggs is too much for you, add two instead, it will just be a bit thinner!
• If you put a lid on your saucepan it will come to the boil much faster, saving energy and money!
• Frittata are a really good thing to make with leftover veg – if you have cooked potatoes already hanging about in your fridge you can make this dish even faster! (Thanks to Maison Cupcake for that one!)

A Glossary of Cookery Terms Used in Recipes

Recipes can be daunting if you don’t know what all the terms mean so here’s an explanation of one or two to help you on your way. I’m going to put the whole lot together on one page as this series develops.

What is a clove of garlic?

A clove of garlic is one segment of the whole bulb. The word clove comes from the word cleave which means to seversomethingalong a natural line – so that makes sense, doesn’t it?!

What does ‘frying’ mean?

Frying is cooking food in oil. Shallow frying uses very little oil and is usually done in a shallow frying pan. Deep fat frying uses lots of oil in a saucepan large and deep enough to be able to submerge the food under the oil – like they do at chip shops.

Why are measurements given in cups?

In my experience it is rare to have a set of measuring scales in student accommodation. A set of measuring cups is a really useful thing to have, they are usually marked with liquid quantities and you can check on line how many grams of dry food weight there are in a cup, half a cup etc meaning that you don’t give yourself too little (calamity!) or too much (not so bad but can be wasteful)

If you’re after easy vegetarian recipes why not have a go at my Easy One Pot Pasta with Broccoli and Peas, my baked bean curry or my cauliflower cheese soup?

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