Omelette

35 ratings

Cooking Time:5 mins

Serves:1 Adult

Cost:Low

Busy lifestyles mean we don’t always have time to cook from scratch. Making an omelette is easy and offers a healthy alternative, especially if you take care to include lots of vegetables.

Don’t know how to make an easy, fluffy omelette? Read on to add this simple breakfast staple to your list of kitchen skills.

Recipe video

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Ingredients

2 medium eggs
3 teaspoons of water
½ teaspoon of dried herbs
1 teaspoon of olive oil
Black pepper to taste

Method

Beat the eggs, water, pepper and herbs together. If you do this in a jug it makes it easier to pour into the pan.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, and add the egg mixture. Refresh your skills on cooking eggs safely here before you start.
Spread the mixture around the pan and cook until the eggs are set and come away from the edge of the pan, the mixture should be firm.
Turn the omelette carefully to cook on the other side.

What you will need

Frying pan
Wooden spoon

Serving suggestions

Thinking about what else you can put in an omelette? Some tasty fillings to add to your omelette include chopped onion, cherry tomatoes and peas, or chopped onion and mushroom. You can also try adding meat, for example ham or some leftover cooked chicken.

Nutritional Information:

All our recipes are nutritionally analysed by our team of experts.

The recipe contains

Energy

760kj

183kcal

Fat

14g

20%

Saturates

3.3g

16%

Sugars

Salt

0.35g

FOOD SAFETY

How to cook eggs safely

It is safe for healthy adults to eat raw or lightly-cooked eggs, but these can cause food poisoning in vulnerable groups.

HEALTHY EATING

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To add some variety to your omelette, try gently cooking some vegetables in the pan before adding the egg mixture.

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