Bachelor Recipe - Masala Omelette
Posted on: 01/Dec/2018 10:25:19 AM
When you run out of time in the morning, remember that simple protein-rich breakfast that can fill up your tummy in no time and keep you full for long. One such quick, healthy, filling dish is Masala omelette. Prepare it the right way, and you are sure to relish its flavors. It is a solo player on your tastebuds, but it also goes excellent with Sambar Rice, Kaara Kulambu, Briyani and more. So, here is the recipe:
Ingredients required:
- Eggs - 4
- Onions (medium sized) - 1 (finely chopped)
- Tomato (medium sized) - 1 (finely chopped)
- Green chillies - 2 Nos (finely chopped)
- Curry leaves - a string
- Coriander leaves - 2 strings (finely chopped)
- Red chilli powder - ½ spoon
- Turmeric powder - ¼ spoon
- Salt - as required
Cooking method:
- Take a wide bowl and add 4 eggs. Using a whisk, beat it thoroughly.
- To this, add required amount of salt
- Finely chop onions, green chillies and tomatoes. Make sure that the pieces are very fine, as it makes the recipe even tastier.
- To this, add a string of curry leaves, required amount of salt, a pinch of turmeric powder and chilli powder (this is optional). Adding chilli powder will not just give you a spicy omelette, but also gives color to the recipe.
- Now that your base mix for omelette is ready, you are good to go with the actual cooking
- Take a frying pan and add heat it. Add required amount of oil.
- Once this gets hot, pour the omelette mix. For this, you cannot use any ladle or spoon. You can directly pour the mix from the bowl in which you had mixed.
- You can see the omelette getting fried in the oil. This is a quick recipe and does not need more time. The cooking can be done either open or closed.
- After about 1 to 1.5 minutes of cooking, flip the omelette and add quarter spoon of oil to fry the reverse side.
- Again cook it for about 1 to 1.5 minutes.
- Once both the sides are cooked, your omelette is ready.
Serving:
You can serve the omelette all alone or use it as side dish for Sambar rice, vegetable rice, rasam sadham, etc. you can also make an instant breakfast by sandwiching this between bread slices. You may add any chutney like Mint or Corriander Chutney to the bread slices and place the omelette in between to have a protein rich meal. Furthermore, it can also be a good compliment for chapathi. For this, take a nice rounded chapathi. Place an omelette inside. Roll the two together. Add tomato sauce if need, for taste. This can be a very tasty lunch box recipe to enjoy - both for elders as well as children.
