Sweet potato, red onion, smoked paprika and olive frittata

Name: Sweet potato, red onion, smoked paprika and olive frittata
Yield: Serves 6–8 as a lunch dish with salad
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 large sweet potato (about 400 g), peeled and diced; 8 eggs; 2 handfuls of stoned olives, roughly chopped; 1 spring onion, sliced; 1 large red onion, sliced; ½ teaspoon sweet smoked paprika (pimentón dulce); 6 tablespoons olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
6–8
as a lunch dish with salad

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Vegetables

By Peter Gordon

Published 2007

About

Frittata is the Italian name for what the Spaniards call a tortilla. Basically, it’s a very dense omelette made with vegetables included as a core ingredient, rather than simply as a stuffing. In Spain, you’re likely to get a potato and white onion tortilla, and in Italy you’re more likely to get a spinach frittata.

Ingredients

1 large sweet potato (about 400 g), peeled and diced
6 tablespoons olive oil
1 large red onion<

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Line a roasting tray with baking parchment and lay the sweet potato on it. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and