Baked Egg Omelette
June 12th, 2010 in Eggs, Main Dishes by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 40min
Egg omelette with ham or canadian bacon and vegetables is a nice breakfast dish. It takes more than an hour to prepare, but it totally worth it.
Unlike most of other omelettes which are usually fried eggs with some other ingredients, this one is prepared by baking them in the oven.
It is a bit hard to tell exact baking time for this dish – it depends a lot on the size of the baking pan you use (both size and material it is made of) and amount of ingredients: my advice would be to test omelette with wooden toothpick (pierce it through from top to bottom and remove it) – if it does come out clean – baked omelette is ready.
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 1-2 tomatoes
- ½ of bell pepper
- 1 shallot onion
- 5oz of ham or canadian bacon
- 1 cup of milk
- 2 tbsp of all purpose flour
- Sunflower or olive oil
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients:
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Peel and chop shallot; warm skillet up with a tablespoon of oil (sunflower or olive) and fry shallot over moderate low heat until softened and browned in color:
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Dice ham or canadian bacon (whatever you have), if it has hard skin or cover – remove it. Add it to onions and fry them all together for about 5 mins, stirring occasionally:
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Move fried onions and meat to the baking pan and set aside:
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Preheat over till 380F. Crack eggs into big bowl, add salt and ground black pepper to taste:
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Beat eggs up with hand mixer with wire attachement until well mixed:
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Mix in about 2 tablespoons of flour (if you like more stiff omelette add more flour):
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Add milk:
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Continue beating until well mixed:
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Remove seeds and stem from the bell pepper and dice it; cover meat and onions with layer of diced bell pepper:
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Cut tomatoes in halves and remove stem parts (if you like you omelette to be less juicy, remove seeds as well), then dice them. Arrange diced tomatoes in a even layer over bell pepper:
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Pour egg mix to the baking pan:
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Put pan into the oven preheated to 380F for about 30-40 minutes:
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Exact cooking time depends on how high is the level of the mix in the baking pan: the deeper it is – the longer it takes to bake. For the amount of ingredients I had and the baking pan I’ve used it took 40 minutes. Take baking pan out of the oven when omelette is ready and set it aside to cool down a bit:
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Slice omelette into portion pieces and carefully move each piece to the plate. Serve warm, for breakfast or lunch:
Baked Egg Omelette
I made this with a twist for the very first time this evening using some of your ideas. I used 2 tbs of cake flour instead of regular flour. No meat but still Italian inspired. I mixed together herbs, spices, Italian mix cheese, milk and cake flour. Then I folded it into egg whites that I added 1 tsp of sugar to. I sliced up 2 Roma tomatoes and also had a jar of red bell peppers in oil and added those (minus the oil), on the bottom of the baking pot. Then I poured the mix on top and spread it to cover everything. On top of that, I used a handful of Italian mix cheese and a handful of finely cut mozzarella cheese. On top of that, I drizzled both tomato sauce and creamy alfredo sauce and in the oven it went. Just before serving I did a little parmesan cheese on top. Added garlic crescent rolls and steak fries with it for a fun dinner tonight. Two thumbs up from the hubby which is always a good thing!
I tried this recipe and it came out beautiful. I used andoille sausage and shrimp for the meat. When it was almost cooked I place shredded parmesan cheese on top and I poured salsa on top of the cheese. Delicious!
can i make this the night before, cover and refrigerate? Would love to make this for Christmas morning.
You probably can, but I am not sure if will taste good cold or warmed up.
i did somehting like this a while back except it was vegetarian and instead of ham i used potato chunks 😛
Thanks 🙂
I tried this and it looks good smell good still in the oven, I aded chees and sweetcorn to mines also
That looks like a great recipe! I’d never thought of a baked omelette before.