Sweet potato, red onion, smoked paprika and olive frittata

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    as a lunch dish with salad
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Vegetables: The new food heroes

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