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Soufflé Omelette with Cheddar & Slow-Cooked Tomato

Whisked eggs cooked slowly and covered so the omelette stays foam-light and damp, folded around melting cheddar over jammy slow-cooked tomatoes.

Soufflé Omelette with Cheddar & Slow-Cooked Tomato. Whisked eggs cooked slowly and covered so the omelette stays foam-light and damp, folded around melting cheddar over jammy slow-cooked tomatoes.
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Prep 10 minCook 20 minServes 2

Ingredients

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Metric avoids regional spoon ambiguity. US uses 5 mL tsp, 15 mL tbsp and 240 mL cup. Small masses stay in grams unless a verified recipe conversion exists. More on measurements

  • 20 ml extra-virgin olive oil (18 g)
  • 250 g cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 6 g fresh basil leaves, torn
  • 4 eggs (204 g, shelled)
  • 20 g unsalted butter
  • 50 g cheddar, coarsely grated
  • 3 slices soft white bread (90 g), crusts trimmed
  • 0.5 g iodised table salt
  • Ground black pepper, to taste

Method

  1. Warm the oil in a small pan, lay the tomatoes in cut side down and cook over medium-low heat for 10-12 minutes, until they have slumped into a jammy sauce. Crush them with the spoon so no whole skins are left, stir in the basil and keep warm.
  2. Separate the eggs. Whisk the whites to soft peaks that flop over at the tip. Beat the yolks with the salt, then fold the whites in with a spatula in two goes, keeping as much air as you can.
  3. Melt the butter in a 20 cm non-stick pan over the lowest heat, pour in the egg and level the top gently.
  4. Cover and cook 5-6 minutes, until puffed and just set on top but still visibly damp, with no more than pale gold on the base. Colour here means heat too high and a chewy skin.
  5. Scatter the cheddar over one half, fold the other half across and leave it off the heat, covered, for 1 minute so the cheese melts right through.
  6. Cut in half, serve over the tomatoes with the warmed bread and plenty of pepper.

Serve

Eggs left deliberately soft are not fully cooked. Guidance is to avoid undercooked egg if you are pregnant, over 70, under 2, or your immune system is low or suppressed — which includes many people on immune-modifying medicines. Cook it until the egg is firm all through: it costs this dish a little tenderness and nothing else.

Tomorrow

A souffle omelette is a texture that exists for about a minute, and it does not survive the fridge. Cold and sliced it is pleasant; reheated it is a flat omelette.

Safety and storage

Keeps
3 days refrigerated below 5°C
Reheat to
steaming hot, at least 60°C

Cool and cover within two hours of cooking; split large amounts into shallow containers so they chill quickly. Reheat until steaming hot, at least 60°C.

Where these temperatures come from