i have 4 eggs, half a leek, stale bread, some parmesan and butter. no oven. dinner for 2 in 20 min? my gf is vegetarian
Yes — make a stovetop bread frittata (Italian frittata di pane). It uses everything, needs no oven, and is vegetarian (just check the parmesan for animal rennet if she’s strict about that).
Stovetop Leek, Parmesan & Stale-Bread Frittata
Serves 2 · about 20 minutes
Use: 4 eggs, the ½ leek, ~3 cups torn stale bread (crusts ok), ~½ cup grated parmesan (divided), 3 tbsp butter, salt/pepper, 2 tbsp water.
Start the leeks (0:00)
Slice the ½ leek thinly, wash well, drain. Melt 2 tbsp butter in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium. Add leek + pinch salt; cook 4–5 min until soft.Make the custard while that cooks (0:02)
In a bowl, beat 4 eggs with 2 tbsp water, salt, pepper, and half the parmesan. Tear bread into 1-inch pieces.Soak (0:06)
Scrape leeks into the egg mixture. Add bread, fold and press so everything is coated. Let sit 4 min so the bread drinks the egg. If it looks dry, add 1 more tbsp water.Cook (0:10)
Wipe pan, add remaining 1 tbsp butter, medium-low. Pour in mixture, spread evenly, press down. Cook undisturbed 4–5 min until the bottom is golden and edges set.Set the top without an oven (0:15)
Cover with a lid (or foil/plate) and cook 4 min. If the center still looks wet, slide it onto a big plate, invert back into the pan, and cook 2 min more.Finish (0:19)
Scatter remaining parmesan on top, cover 30 sec to melt. Rest 1 min, cut into wedges, eat.
No-flip option: after step 4, just stir gently and scramble everything for 2–3 min until the eggs are set. Same flavors, zero risk.
Everything is meat-free; the only catch is parmesan sometimes uses animal rennet, so use a vegetarian hard cheese or skip if that’s an issue.
The catch: Parmesan is usually made with animal rennet, so many vegetarians skip it.
Run details
- Model
- tencent/hy4-preview
- Route
- OpenRouter API, one user message
- Served by
- Cohere
- Effort
- high, OpenRouter's default for this model
- Limits
- 60 min · 64,000 output tokens (the model's limit)
- Date
- 24 Oct 2026
- Time
- 2 min 23 s
- Words
- 307
- Tokens
- 59 in, 7,439 out (6,891 of them thinking)
- List price
- $0.017 at today's price ($0.751 in / $2.25 out per M)
- Paid
- $0.019
- Script
- It warns that parmesan is usually made with animal rennet, so it may not suit a vegetarian.
Exact prompt
i have 4 eggs, half a leek, stale bread, some parmesan and butter. no oven. dinner for 2 in 20 min? my gf is vegetarian