Italian Sausage Frittata

sassafrasnanc's Note:

This can be served for breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner. It's a fairly simple recipe with ingredients that are easily found in the grocery store! I personally use the Spicy Turkey Italian Sausages when making this recipe although it calls for mild.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1 1/2 lbs bulk Italian sausage
• 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 3 large swiss chard leaves, rolled and sliced thin
• 1 cup mild cheddar cheese, grated
• 14 large eggs
• 1 3/4 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Brown sausage in sauce pan and drain.
3. Spread evenly over bottom of 9 x 13 baking dish.
4. Sauté mushrooms and garlic in butter until almost all liquid is absorbed (you can add a few dashes of white wine at this stage if you prefer.
5. Spread mushrooms over sausage.
6. Layer swiss chard and cheese over mushrooms.
7. In bowl beat the eggs, milk and Dijon mustard and pour evenly over all.
8. Place in oven on middle rack, bake uncovered for 1 hour, (or until middle is firm to touch).
9. Remove from the oven, cover loosely with foil, and let stand 15-18 minutes. Divide and cut into serving sizes.
10. Top with green onions or sour cream (or both) if you desire.

Reviews

[Kitchen Witch Steph]

My MIL gave me some chard so I decided to use some in this recipe. I scaled it down for just me and my husband and did a version of this as scrambled eggs. He loved it and I am still not sure how I feel about chard. Anyway, there are a lot of great flavors going on here. I think we will be making this again. Good healthy stuff! Made for my Babes for ZWT4.

[Sydney Mike]

I cut the ingredients in half for a breakfast for 2 & used most of the mushrooms on just half of the frittata! Also used the mild sausage, although another time I might just go for the sweeter ones! VERY TASTY & MOST ENJOYABLE! Thanks for sharing! [Made & reviewed during the Zingo part of the Zaar World Tour 4]

[Nursebarb]

I made this for an Italian themed lunch at work - was looking for something other than pasta. This was easy and a great hit! Everyone wanted the recipe. It was great to be able to pop it in the oven!