This is a great full flavored fritatta that works for breakfast or dinner.  Fritattas are a great easy go to when you need a quick and flavorful meal. This was one of those I threw together with ingredients I had in the refrigerator.  For breakfast or brunch you can serve it with roasted breakfast potatoes, fruit or a muffin. For dinner it is great with a nice arugula salad with balsamic dressing. Don’t cut the veggies in this recipe too small, you want this to be a rustic dish.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

You will need:

• 1/2 green bell pepper chopped
• 1/2 yellow bell pepper chopped (or any other color pepper you choose)
• 1 small crookneck squash (yellow squash) chopped
• 1 medium tomato chopped into 1″ pieces
• 2 mild Italian sausages removed from their casings
• 1 shallot diced (or white onion)
• 1 large garlic clove diced
• 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
• 5 large eggs
• olive oil
• salt and pepper

Directions:

• Saute your Italian sausage in 10″ oven safe saute pan. Break up into pieces and saute until lightly browned.
• While sausage cooks, chop your vegetables.
• When sausage is cooked, remove from pan and set aside.
• Add  2 tbsp olive oil to pan, saute shallot, garlic, peppers and squash in pan until they start to caramelize.  Add Italian seasoning and salt and pepper to taste.
• When veggies start to caramelize, add tomatoes and sausage into pan and cook with veggies until tomatoes just start to soften.
• Turn heat on pan down to medium low.
• Beat your eggs and add a pinch of salt and pepper
• Pour egg mixture over veggie and sausage mixture and gently move eggs throughout mixture and then let sit on heat and begin to cook.
• When egg mixture has partially cooked on edges and bottom, move pan to your preheated oven and allow to finish cooking – about 5-10 minutes. Keep an eye on your fritatta and do not let your eggs overcook.
• Remove cooked fritatta from oven and let set about 5 minutes before slicing.