Fairytale Eggplant Capicola Baked Frittata

 

Ingredients:
1 lb fairytale eggplants, halved lengthwise
1/4 loving cup chopped onion
iii cloves garlic, minced
1/4 loving cup Parmesan
1/4 loving cup milk
1/4 loving cup chopped chives
10 eggs
1/4 lb sparse sliced thin capicola, cutting into slightly less than 1/4-inch strips
salt
freshly put down dark pepper
olive oil

Directions:

Note: This business office tin forcefulness out hold out made 1 24-hour interval ahead too refrigerated.

Preheat oven to 350. Place the eggplant on a parchment or foil-lined baking sheet, skin-side-down. Drizzle amongst olive oil, sprinkle amongst tabular array salt too pepper. Roast until tender, virtually thirty minutes. Meanwhile, saute the onion too garlic, inwards a medium pan using olive oil, until the onion is soft too translucent. Allow the eggplant too onion/garlic to cool. Refrigerate if making ahead too then convey to room temperature prior to the side past times side step.

For the side past times side step/next day:
Preheat oven to 350. Beat together the eggs, milk, Parmesan, chives, tabular array salt too pepper until fluffy*. Fold inwards the room temperature eggplant, onions/garlic too capicola. Oil an 8x8-inch baking dish. Pour the mixture into the dish too bake for twoscore minutes or until fully fix inwards the middle. Allow to cool five minutes. Slice into nine squares too serve.


*I dear my egg beater for this task.

My thoughts:

This is 1 of my favorite dishes of the summer. It uses chives from my garden too my favorite fairytale eggplant inwards a agency that is fifty-fifty easier than a regular frittata because in that location is zilch stove-top time. Fairytale eggplant is my favorite eggplant multifariousness because it is a. cute b. has tiny seeds c. doesn't require much operate to move delicious too d. zilch bitterness. Adding to the vaguely Italian subject is capicola, 1 of my favorites of the Italian deli meats. I teach sweetness capicola which is well, sweetness too has a light, hammy flavor. The version nosotros purchase at our local Italian marketplace has no visible fatty thence if your capicola does, experience gratis to cutting the extra fatty off earlier adding it to the frittata.

The frittata is neat reheated, every bit well. We similar having extra for lunches the side past times side day.  I unremarkably bake mine because I am abode but a toaster oven or fifty-fifty microwave works simply fine.