This pumkin bacon ricotta frittata is incredible tasty with ricotta cheese, salty bacon and sweet pumpkin. This frittata is also easy, fast to prepare and very tasty. I’m sure that you will love this second course.
In this recipe you will lern the italian secret how to make the real frittata like the italian mother prepare home. For this recipe you don’t need to use the oven but a non stick frying pan.
This pumkin bacon ricotta frittata with few ingredients but very well combined, ingredients that make a easy frittata a rich and complete second course.
This pumpkin bacon ricotta frittata is also a very fast second course because it’s prepared with raw grated pumpkin and cooks in a pan, leaving also the crunchiness and lots of taste.
Do you love frittata but have you never ever tried bacon with pumpkin and ricotta cheese together? I highly recommend you to try it, it will surprise you for the intense and decisive taste of the bacon combined with seasonal pumpkin.
Ingredients
- 350 gButternut pumpkin (peeled, coarsely grated)
- 2 spoonsolive oil
- 4 slicesbacon (coarsely chopped)
- 100 gricotta cheese
- 6eggs (lightly whisked)
- 2 spoonsthickened cream
- 1 sprigchive
- q.s.salt
- q.s.pepper
- 2 spoonsvegetable oil
Tools
- 1 Frying Pan non stick, 20 cm
- 1 Whip
- 1 Grater
- 1 Bowl
First clean the pumpkin of the skin, seeds and filaments.
Grate the pumpkin and put it aside.
Cut the slices bacon into small pieces, meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a 20cm non-stick frying pan over medium-high heat. Cook the bacon, stirring, for 2 minutes. Set aside
In a large bowl put the eggs, salt, pepper, a spoonful of water (it is used to make the eggs more light and make the frittata swell during cooking), beat the eggs lightly with a whisk in order to whip them well.
Now add the finely chopped chives, bacon, ricotta cheese, cream and finally the grated pumpkin.
In a non-stick pan, put the vegetable oil and heat it, pour the egg mixture, cook over low heat until the frittata is almost cooked, now take a lid larger than the pan and turn the frittata (be careful not to burn yourself and do this over the sink using an oven mitt).
Cook for another 5 minutes and then serve the frittata hot!
tip: you can also bake the frittata in the oven at 392.0 °F for degrees, 20/30 minutes by lining a round pan with baking paper.
Enjoy by Lidia!