Baked Vegetable Frittata w/ “Pure Green Tea”

This frittata is a great dish to be used with any meat or by its own.

 

Ingredients

450 g grated tasty cheddar cheese

200 g chargrilled and finely chopped red capsicum

150 g zucchini skin finely chopped

300 g roasted kumara finely chopped

1200 g eggs

900 g cream (35%)

10 g sea salt

10 Dilmah pure green tea leaves (20g)

¼ tsp ground nutmeg

Method

Preheat oven to 135º C (fan forced). Place a grated cheese evenly on a baking sheet lined deep gastronome tray. Place chopped kumara, zucchini and capsicum in a bowl and blend evenly. Spread this mixture evenly on top of the cheese. Place green tea leaves, nutmeg and salt in a mortar and grind with the pestle. Add some of the cream to this mixture. Whisk the rest of the cream and eggs evenly together in a bowl. Add the green tea mixture and blend evenly. Pour the egg mixture evenly on the vegetable mix. Bake in the oven for approx. 60 minutes with a lid and the last 10 minutes without the lid. Allow cooling in the fridge.

Note: Place the frittata up side down for approx. 1 minute on a hot grill plate before serving.