Mini Mushroom Frittatas

Claire Wright

Featuring:

Mushrooms

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Complexity:

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Serves: 4

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

sliced mushrooms (try to get your frittatas to be more veg than egg by providing plenty of chopped veggies like mushrooms)

6-8 beaten eggs (seasoned to taste with salt & pepper)

optional add-ins: fresh herbs, halved cherry tomatoes, feta or grated hard cheese, bacon lardons or ham, and/or your favourite veggies

Veg Portions / Serving: 1

Mighty, meaty mushrooms can be used in so many different ways! Claire Wright from addsomeveg.com shares 3 of the most simple ways, like these easiest ever mini mushroom frittatas that are endlessly adaptable and perfect for breakfasts, lunches, lunchboxes or even snacks.

Method:

Preheat the oven to 190C/170C fan/Gas 5. Grease a 12-hole muffin tin with a little oil or butter. Scatter sliced mushrooms and any other add-ins into the muffin tin holes. Pour over enough beaten eggs to come up 2/3 of the way up the holes (you’ll need about 8-10 medium eggs to do 12 frittatas). Bake for 20 mins, or until set and golden on top. Serve warm or cold. They’ll keep for a few days in the fridge for breakfasts or lunches throughout the week!

Engaging Kids

Kids who engage regularly with veg through veg-themed activities, such as arts and crafts, sensory experiences, growing and cooking are shown to be more likely to eat the veg they engage with. Encouraging kids to engage and play with veg is the handy first step to them developing a good relationship with veg and life-long healthy eating.

Kids in the kitchen

Get some little bowls out with chopped veggies and extras in and let the kids choose what they want in their frittatas and then build their own by scattering them over the muffin tins. Help them carefully pour over the eggs, too.

Activities

While getting kids to interact with veggies for real and using their senses to explore them is best, encouraging hands off activities like arts & crafts, puzzles & games or at-home science experiments can be a great start, particularly for those who are fussier eaters or struggle with anything too sensory. Use these veg-themed activities as a stepping stone to interacting with the veg themselves. We have loads of crafty downloads here, puzzles here, and quirky science with veg here.

Sensory

Once you feel your child is ready to engage a little more, you can show them how to explore the veg you have on hand with their senses, coming up with playful silly descriptions of how a veg smells, feels, looks, sounds and perhaps even tastes. Find ideas, videos and some simple sensory education session ideas to get you started here.

Serving

The moments before food is offered can be a perfect opportunity for engagement that can help make it more likely a child will eat it! Giving children a sense of ownership in the meal can make a big difference to their feelings going into it and the pride they take in it. You know your child best, but if you aren’t sure where to start, we have some fun and simple ideas for easy roles you can give them in the serving process over here.

Claire Wright

Communications Manager: After leaving Exeter University with a degree in English Literature, Claire worked in various fields ranging from youth work and charities to publishing, before starting up a food-focused website when her first child was born. After being asked to project manage the publication of Veg Power's Crowdfunder book, Claire came on board as a fully-fledged team member in 2018 to take on the role of Communications Manager, looking after Veg Power's website and social media platforms.

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