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Type | Omelette |
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Place of origin | Italy |
Main ingredients | Fried beateneggs |
Variations | Fritaja (Istria) |
Frittata is an egg-basedItalian dish, similar to anomelette, crustlessquiche orscrambled eggs, enriched with additional ingredients such asmeats,cheeses orvegetables.
TheItalian wordfrittata derives fromfriggere and roughly means 'fried'. This was originally a general term for cooking eggs in afrying pan (or skillet in the US), anywhere on the spectrum fromfried egg, through conventionalomelette, to an Italian version of theSpanish omelette, made with friedpotato. Outside Italy,frittata was seen as equivalent to "omelette" until at least the mid-1950s.[1]
Frittata has come to be a term for a distinct variation thatDelia Smith describes as "Italy's version of an open-face omelette".[2] When used in this sense, there are four key differences from a conventional omelette:
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the Italian word here islentamente—very slowly