Leftover Spaghetti Frittata

Frittata di pasta

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      20 min

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Pasta Therapy: Over 100 nourishing recipes for relaxation, calm and healing

By Isabella Barbato

Published 2026

  • About

Crisp, golden and fiercely fought over. A proper second-day comfort dish. This was a regular in our house. My mum would make it with leftover spaghetti in tomato sauce, cooked again, this time in a pan with butter until the edges went crunchy and golden. It was one of the only times she used butter instead of olive oil, which in Sicily, I guess, always felt like a slightly northern move. But this dish needed it. The butter gave it flavour and bite. You could smell it as you rushed up the st