Here’s an easy breakfast idea, using bacon, tomatoes, I can’t believe it’s not butter and eggs!
Mini Spinach Frittata with Red Quinoa, Bacon & Tomatoes
My youngest started school today. I wasn’t ready.
Well, I was eagerly ready to send him back to school, but all the prep work was nowhere near complete. During the school year, I try to run a tight ship and schedule. With school, extracurricular activities, work, etc., it’s easy to run out of time. And then there’s packing three lunches every day, coming up with easy dinner ideas, and making sure the boys have a good breakfast before heading out the door.
Yeah, that’s a lot of prep work. I love easy meal ideas, ideas that allow me to get a delicious and healthy meal on the table in under 30 minutes. Same goes for breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and it’s my role to make sure my boys have everything they need to have a good day.
It starts at breakfast. We try to come up with easy breakfast ideas, like our breakfast omelet bites. Many of you have utilized our weekly meal plan ideas. In these meal plans, we try to use leftover food as much as possible to cut down on cost and waste. Same goes with this frittata recipe we’re sharing red quinoa with swordfish (amazing). I also found a bag of spinach, along with some pepper feta cheese and some shaved Parmesan, some eggs, and a single yellow onion from the pantry. Okay, so far it all is coming to together.
My husband is the master Chef in our home and keeper of our garden. I love being able to walk right outside and grab fresh herbs to use for our meals. I was able to pick a few fresh peppers and cherry tomatoes to go into our frittata.
We all love to save money, and you guys know how much I LOVE to use mPerk offers from Meijer (and I know you do too). Right now they have a Buy 1, Get 1 FREE I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter mPerk offer! That’s right! We’re getting two for the price of one! You can buy any variety of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter (size 15-22.5 oz.). I picked up two tubs to use in my eggs since it makes them super fluffy. And, we are a big fan of fluffy eggs!
The tubs
are regular price $2.99.
Buy 2 at $2.99 each
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Pay $2.99 for both (comes to $1.49 each)
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Be sure to check out the recipe below, see what other ingredients you need and head to the store! Because frittatas are pretty easy to make, you can use a lot of ingredients you have in your fridge to put this easy breakfast idea together. That is the beauty of what a little butter, eggs, and creativity can do for ya!
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup of Red Quinoa
- 1/2 cup Breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup Shaved Parmesan
- 2 Tbsp Crumbled Pepper Feta Cheese
- 1 Tbsp I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter (Olive Oil)
- 1 Yellow Onion Sliced
- 2 cups of Spinach
- 6 Eggs
- 4 Cherry Tomatoes Halved
- Sea Salt to taste
- Freshly Cracked Black Peppercorns to taste
Directions:
Back inside looked in the tray where we keep the bread and noticed a French loaf just hanging out, and since we have a “no loitering” policy in the kitchen, he has to gots to go and go it went. I lopped off a few slices and threw ’em in the food processor, and there you go, breadcrumbs galore! Make the bread crumbs. It’s easy enough. Place two pieces of bread in the food processor and press the button. Viola!
Just to keep it interesting and because it would only be fitting for a Worthey breakfast (see what I did just now?), I kick-started a cast iron skillet and some thick-cut bacon into something crispy and beautiful. I couldn’t resist. Guilty as charged! Make some bacon. You’ve done this a billion times and one more time ain’t going to hurt you.
Let’s crack some eggs.
Crack four eggs into a bowl and whisk well, and to make ’em extra fluffy add one melted tablespoon ofI Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter the Olive Olive edition just to keep things fluffy to the eggs and whisk them until your arms get sore. ‘Cause another key to billowy eggs is getting air into them by whisking them like a madman or madwoman.
Divide the eggs between to baking bowls.
Now, this is the fun part. Add a turn of sea salt and freshly cracked black peppercorns.
Layer in a bit of steamed spinach, caramelized onions, pre-cooked red quinoa, chopped thick-cut bacon, crumbled feta cheese, shaved Parmesan. Top with a whole cracked egg into each bowl and bread crumbs.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 40 minutes.
Remove from oven and top with more cheese if desired.
Serve.
Looks good right? I could eat a few more of these, but I’ll save some for the boys!
Now, it’s YOUR turn! What are some ingredients you would use in your frittata or egg recipe using I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter to fluff your eggs? Drop me the ingredients you would add in the comment section below. One randomly selected winner will win a $25 Meijer Gift Card and announced here on the blog! {this giveaway is valid 8/9-9/8/2016}
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This looks like a delicious recipe idea. I love that it has bacon in it too 🙂 I will certainly be trying to make this up one morning for breakfast!
That looks really good! I can’t wait to give this a try. I hope my whole family will like this. Sounds healthy too!
Holy crap! I want this for breakfast tomorrow. It looks so delicious. I love spinach and I would love this I am sure.
This looks awesome! I need something like this first thing in the morning to keep me going all day!
What a delicious looking frittata. It’s important to start off the day with a nutritious breakfast.
These look yummy! I can’t wait to try them out.
I haven’t had a frittata in a long, long time. Seems as though this one is where I need to start according to my tummy growls.
Thanks for the great coupon. I will have to try this recipe this weekend. My family will love it.
I haven’t dug into making quinoa yet but this makes me want to thanks for the recipie!
I have to say, I’m vegan so I don’t eat eggs but… I miss frittatas! This recipe looks delicious and I know my kids and grandkids would love it!
Yum! That looks amazing! This would be great for breakfast. I need to try this over the weekend.
What a great recipe. I like all the fresh ingredients you use.
These look so darn good! I love a yummy egg dish like this for brunch.
Thanks so much for sharing this delicious breakfast idea! I love the single serving thing, and of course, BACON!
This looks like a really good breakfast to make up!! I love I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, it is great to use in recipes!
Oh yum, I am totally going to try this for breakfast tomorrow. I love simple and hearty breakfasts to keep me full all morning.
These look really delicious and easy enough to make. I would love to make these up to have on hand during the week for a quick breakfast.
This looks amazing and sounds pretty easy to make. I think this would be great for brunch.
I would make mine with broccoli or asparagus.
This looks so good! Our family loves frittatas and it’s something I haven’t made for breakfast in forever. The kids are away at camp for 10 days. I’m making this when they get back!
Looks and sounds great!!!
fresh mushrooms
This looks great as is, but it would be awesome with asparagus and black forest ham too!
YUM! This looks amazing. I think it’s simple and a great recipe for the whole family to enjoy for sunday brunch.
Looks delicious! This would make a great weekend breakfast
Add mushrooms? Can another type of cheese be used besides Feta? Can these be reheated?
For sure, you can use any type of cheese you want on your Frittata! And yes, they can be reheated.
This looks like what heaven would taste like. I love breakfast more than any other meal, so I will be try this very soon.
i would use lobster, garlic, grape tomatoes, spinach and baby mushrooms along with the I can’t believe it’s not butter and eggs to make a great omelet or scrambled eggs dish.
My family loves Ham, Havarti, peppers and onions in their eggs. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I would definitely add mushrooms!
That sounds appetizing however I’ll wait to try when the temperature goes down. Hate having oven on in this heat
This looks like the perfect breakfast for one!! Great idea!!
These look tasty. I make these in muffin tins for my daughter…anything that looks like a cupcake she’ll eat! I like to add ham and veggies and cheese.
This is such a yummy looking breakfast! I’m totally trying this over the weekend.
Your Mini Spinach Frittata with Red Quinoa, Bacon & Tomatoes sounds delicious. I have been cooking with I Can’t Believe it’s not Butter for years.
I’m not usually a breakfast person, but this YES. It looks mouthwatering, I need to grab the ingredients.
I’ve never had red quinoa before, but this looks delicious. I’ll definitely give it a try.
This frittata recipe looks so good! Perfect for everyday breakfast or brunch!
This sounds like a great breakfast recipe indeed for anyone. I will have to make this for sure it looks delicious. I can’t believe it’s not Butter is something I use all the time and I have gotten the olive oil one before too. Thanks for sharing the recipe and the coupons.
These are loaded fritatas and they have me drooling! Will be doing them next week.
I would add onions and green peppers to my egg recipe.
That looks awesome! I have to say my “perfect” scrambled egg recipe is as follows:
4 eggs
Dash of heavy whipping cream
Salt and pepper.
Mix and fry to your liking. Then I drizzle it with Maggi’s Sweet Chili sauce. It’s a taste I acquired when I was pregnant with my first child.
This sounds good. I will definitely have to try it.
I’d have to go with ham & cheeses in mine. Yum!
Your recipe looks delicious! The ingredients I would like to try are onions, kielbasa, kale or spinach, and some cheddar or parmesan cheese. Tomatoes could also be added. My husband likes them with his eggs but I don’t particularly care for them with eggs. Thank you for the great giveaway!
Looks good. Thank you for the recipe. I’ll add it to the homemade cookbook
Looks wonderful. I need to try this!!!
green bell peppers
I would add mushrooms for my husband. For myself, I would add green and black olives.
I would love spinach, mushroom, swiss cheese. Looks awesome.
I would add mushrooms!! Yum
I would add ham and banana peppers!
This looks so good and I think my kids would love it. I will have to try it. Thank you for posting it.
Well adding to your ingredients I would also put mushrooms and red peppers in it.
Looks great , I will try with bacon and vadilia onions.
It looks so good! I would throw in any vegetables I had around the house Thank you I am saving this one.
Looks delicious! Couldn’t hurt anything (except your cholestorol) to add some crumbled sausage, right?!? 🙂
I would add garlic, it looks really good. Thanks for the recipe.
I would replace the bacon with mushrooms because my mother in law is allergic to meat but it sounds delicious otherwise.
Looks delicious! I think I would add some mushrooms.
I would add some garlic and add some chives or green onion at the end. Mmmmm
I’m not a fan of spinach, so I would leave that out and add some chopped or sliced green peppers, and for some spice, a dash of hot sauce.
I usually have imperial stick butter to fluff my eggs. I’m going to try can’t believe it’s not butter next time.