Light, fluffy, no oil, low fat, high protein, vegetable flan cooked using water in a frypan. This is another one of Mum’s recipes extracted from combining ideas from her various cookbooks. She loves cooking nutritional foods and if you don’t have a gall bladder, this is easily digested. She is very keen on fresh ingredients from her garden whenever seasonally possible. She is a legend in cooking according to our family.
Serves 4 if enjoying it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Serves 6 with a salad. If any left over I freeze portions for my school lunches. It can be eaten cold or warmed up.
To reduce ingredients in the recipe, allow 2 eggs per person and reduce the size of the veggies from large to medium.
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet potato
Herbs chopped into various sizes
- 1 large potato
- 1 large onion
- 3/4 cup water (no oil)
Herbs and shallot from garden
- 8 eggs
- 2 tablspns Cheese – grated (Parmesan or favourite cheese)
- herbs – see below
- shallots
Optional
- herbs – Rosemary, Mint, Oregano, Parsley (garden fresh)
- salt & pepper
Method
- Cube vegetables.
- Add 3/4cup water to frypan.
- Add vegetables, salt, to frypan.
- Stir. Put lid back on so veggies semi cook in water.
- Chop herbs (optional)
- Add beaten eggs to herbs and mix.
- Stir egg gently into veggie mix.
- Use egg lifter to gently move egg mixture so it cooks evenly. It will become drier.
- Sprinkle your favourite cheese on top. Do not mix.
- Place fry pan under grill until golden.
- Slice and serve.
Equipment
Mum likes to use stainless or cast iron frypan because it is versatile. Metal can also go under the grill.
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Looks tasty and healthy!
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Thank you. Mum’s getting in the groove of sharing her recipes. She’s 75.
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Looks delicious -and easy to make too.
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Yes very easy and delicious.
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Oh yum! I love seeing healthy recipes online, because that’s the thing I’m worst at cooking and I need all the help I can get! #LTW14 #LifeThisWeek
Di from Max The Unicorn
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Definitely healthy.
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Good on your mum! You get the benefit of her experience and wisdom and to eat it too. Thanks for linking up today. #lifethisweek Denyse
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Haha… yes definitely.
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It looks lovely. Being a stay-home mum, I often get a bit tired of the same lunch, and I am always on the lookout for nutritious and simple meal ideas – this sounds great!
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Yes delicious and low in fat.
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I have never made anything like this before. It looks so tasty Maria 🙂 Yum!! Thanks for sharing at the weekend blog hop. Hope you can stop by Creative Mondays and link up today..
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Glad you liked it. Will have a look at Creative Mondays.
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So this looks absolutely delicious! And I’m guessing it’s also a great way to use up roast vegies as well.
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Hadn’t thought of that way, but sounds like it would work yummily. Love leftovers.
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Quick, yummy and healthy what a trifecta!
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Hadn’t thought of it as a trifecta, but I love it.
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Yummo
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I love flan. I love the thought of flan. This recipe looks tailor-made for me. My cast iron frying pan isn’t this large, so I think I’ll try it with 6 eggs instead of 8. Cooked with no oil means it can be fed to our elderly Golden Retriever, who thinks she’s entitled to everything we eat, so I’ve learned to hold the seasoning until things are cooked, and I can do that with this recipe.
Kay
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Yes absolutely modify with six. Mum always loved experimenting with seven of us growing up. And with a couple of us without gall bladders, it is healthier for us.
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I’ve always thought flan was sweet! What an interesting dish!
Thanks for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2016/12/dominus-flevit.html
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A flan can be savoury or sweet filling. From her recipe book it had both. You may have heard of the egg and bacon flan.
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