Scrambled Artichoke Heart Frittata in cooking process
This is a recipe for hungry people. If you eat this too many days in a row, then you probably won’t live to read the next recipe that this site has to offer. It is a Scrambled Artichoke Heart Frittata and it is delicious. I eat food like this if I am extremely hungry and have recently done a great deal of exercise. It is high in fat, cholesterol, protein, and oil. It also has artichoke hearts, tomatoes, some avocado and pepper in it to make it more balanced. The main ingredients are as follows:
Preparation Bowl #1
4 eggs – yolks and all, beaten and put in its own bowl.
Preparation Bowl #2
1 medium sized tomato – cut out all the hard parts. Then cut it up into pieces. It will be mostly melted and turned into the juices for the meal so making it super small is unnecessary and not recommended.
1 half of an avocado – it is preferable that this is a ripe avocado. This will make the whole dish taste good.
4 artichoke heart sections – these artichoke hearts could be purchased in a little jar. They usually come in oil. They are delicious quite literally by themselves, and will make an excellent addition to this simple dish. If you don’t have any that are in a jar. Then you can always use fresh artichoke hearts. If you are using fresh artichoke hearts that you boiled and steamed yourself. Then just use one full artichoke heart that you cut into four pieces.
Once everything is in Preparation Bowl #2 then add some salt, olive oil, and pepper to the bowl. Stir it up with a spoon and let it hang out until you are ready.
Preparation Bowl #3
White Cheese (choose your favorite white cheese) – add as much as your little inner cheese minion wants (if you do not feed your cheese minion then it will no longer be your familiar) it is best if the cheese is cut into manageable chunks or slices. They are going to be melted as the dish progresses.
Let’s get started!
First things first. This is an easy dish to make. It is much faster than the other recipes on here and it is fun. You will impress people and probably yourself with how good it is. Too bad you will probably eat it all yourself and not share. (I don’t)
Take a skillet or pan and put some olive oil in it. Make sure you have all your preparation bowls ready to go. Then turn the heat on high over a small stove and heat up the pan. Once the olive oil is all spread around by using a spreading brush add some butter to it. Once the butter is all heated up and bubbling, drop the beaten eggs from Preparation Bowl #1 into the pan. Don’t disturb it for about 40 seconds or more. Right before it gets cooked enough that it looks like it could be turned into an omelet, then take a spatula and scramble the eggs. Once the eggs are slightly cooked for about 15 seconds, move onto the next step.
Quickly stir in the contents of Preparation Bowl #2 into the eggs. Add more oil and butter as you go. Start stirring immediately and let the tomatoes get all juicy into the mix. You can reduce the heat to medium at this point. I would add some extra pinches of salt and more pepper during this time. Too much salt makes it gross, but pepper can be quite generous if you like pepper.
Continue to stir the whole thing for another 40 seconds and then add the cut pieces of white cheese from Preparation Bowl #3 into the pan. Now your meal should look like the first picture at the top of this recipe. Keep stirring and stirring, try not to let too much stick to the bottom of the pan. Although some sticking is inevitable unless you have some kind of super non-stick ban that I don’t know about.
As your stir the Scrambled Frittata, you will notice the meal is changing color. I’ve found that depending on the type of olive oil you use, the color will vary. But you can always taste test the eggs to see if it is done.
Scrambled Artichoke Frittata ready to eat
Once you taste-tested your meal, and find that it is done. You can put in on a nice plate, put it in a bowl…it will taste good no matter what if you did it right. I prefer putting it in a bowl because then it stays warm longer. And since there is so much food, it takes a little time to eat it all. I usually just put it in a bowl and then clean up the dishes before I even eat the meal. In the Zen Book I’m reading, the zen master says that once the area is clean after eating the food, then and only then is the meal complete. Well, I like to eat guilt free by doing the tougher dishes first…everything except for my fork and bowl. That way I don’t have to worry about it and I can go for a walk around town to digest the meal.
This is a lot of food, so two young people could probably share this and both feel happy. But the picture makes it look so small. I just want to pinch it with my fingers and eat it all over again.
One thing you’ll notice with food preparation, is that the size and shape of the serving dish will greatly affect the perception of the portions. If you look at the picture up and to the right, it will look very small. But in fact there is 4 eggs in there and a whole tomato, among other things. If this was on a plate you probably wouldn’t even be able to finish it all without it getting cold. But in a large bowl, it looks like a little fairy snack…for giants to eat.
-Tyler
