Dinner · 10 min · 1 plate
Ham cheddar omelette
Fry the ham first so the middle does not go wet. Fill after the curds set, then roll it out of the pan while it is still pale.
The sheet · 1 plate · 10 min
easyWhy tonight. Fry the ham first so the middle does not go wet. Fill after the curds set, then roll it out of the pan while it is still pale.
What it needs
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- eggs
- ham
- cheddar
- butter
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: scallion.
Method
- Fry the ham first, on its own, until the edges catch. Cold ham folded into an omelette makes the middle wet.
- Ham out, eggs into the same pan with the fat it left behind.
- Stir twenty seconds, then stop and let the base set. An omelette is stirred for a moment and still for the rest.
- Ham and cheddar down the middle in the last thirty seconds, then roll it out of the pan. Pale outside, just-set inside.
An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- ham
- Salt-cured and already seasoned, so whatever it goes into needs less salt than it would otherwise.
- cheddar
- Sharpness plus melt. Aged cheddar tastes like more and melts like less, so a dish that wants both usually wants a mix — grate it, do not slice it, and take the pan off the heat before it goes in.
- butter
- Flavor and body in the same spoonful.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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Next
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