Julia Child's Basic Omelette

Posted by lara on 7-29-08 with 2

Recipe Notes

Total Cooking Time

5 minutes

Active Cooking Time

5 minutes

Difficulty

Super Easy (1 out of 5)

Yields

1 omelette

Description

This is a great and easy omelette that tastes really fancy. Dress it up with grated cheese or sauteed mushrooms and garnish with fresh herbs. Have it for breakfast or accompany with a salad and bread for a light lunch or dinner.

Instructions

Place a non-stick omelette pan over high heat.

Meanwhile, whisk together eggs, salt, and pepper until whites and yolks are nicely blended. Add water and whisk again briefly.

Melt butter in the hot pan, tilting to coat sides. Before the butter starts to brown, dump in the eggs.

Holding the pan by its handle, move it in a swirling motion to shake the eggs loose from the sides and into a central pile. Then, as it firms up, use jerky movements to get it to sort of roll over onto itself.

Cooking should only take a minute or so. Dump the just-cooked omelette onto a plate, garnish, and enjoy!

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Comments (2) · Post a New Comment

Jennifer80 · In 1962, Julia Child, who was just getting started as a television personality, visited the Pot Shop in Boston, one of the finer gourmet kitchenware stores in the USA. She told the torpedo story to the Pot Shop management and suggested that they develop a similar heavy cast aluminum omelette pan, since none were then available. Four months later the first FRENCH CHEF OMELETTE PAN, that was created by the Pot Shop, was given to Julia Child at her home in Cambridge, where she used it to prepare an omelette lunch for Pot Shop management. As an educator in the field of public broadcasting, she could not officially endorse the omelette pan or any other product. This pan was voted the WINNER by Cook's Illustrated as the best omelette pan. There is much more information on the companies website - http://www.potshopofboston.com/omelettepanreviews.htm

Posted: 4-21-09 @ 05:41am

Derrick · Hey, I went to that potshopofboston.com site and found that there was a video of a Master Chef from Oklahoma making omelets just like Julia did. Pretty cool. I didnt' know there was such a thing as a sour cream and strawberry omelet! I am going to try that one!

http://www.potshopofboston.com/OmelettePan.htm

Posted: 8-09-09 @ 01:50pm