Baked broccoli, cheese and pepper omelette

Packed full with protein, this baked omelette with bacon, broccoli and red pepper will make your prefect weekend or weekday breakfast or brunch - simple and so delicious. Make it vegetarian by simply taking out the bacon/gammon.

Course Breakfast, Brunch

Cuisine Ramona's Cuisine

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Total Time 25

Servings

Calories 305kcal

Author Ramona Sebastian

Ingredients

150 g gammon (or bacon)
4 eggs
4 egg whites
120 g broccoli (made into small florets)
150 g cheese grated (mozzarella or chedar)
50 ml milk
3 tablespoon creme fraiche
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper (freshly ground)
1 chili (optional) red or green
½ pepper (red)
springs parsley (a few)

Metric - US Imperial

Instructions

Preheat the oven at 180 C.
In a bowl break the eggs and beat for 30 seconds, add the egg whites, half of the grated cheese, milk, creme fraiche, salt (remember gammon adds salt to it), pepper and chili if you opt to put in.
Place a pan over medium heat and shallow fry the gammon/bacon for 3 min.* (see recipe notes) Add the peppers and the broccoli. Cook for further 2 min.
Add the omelette to the gammon and get the cooking of the omelette started. Cook for 3 min stirring occasionally. When it is half cooked transfer into the baking dish(es) sprinkle the remaining grated cheese. Bake for 8-10 min. **
Take out and serve. Enjoy it!

Notes

* If you are using bacon start with adding some water to begin with. Bacon has its own fat and I never add oil but if you use gammon, this usually hasn't got much fat so feel free to add ½ teaspoon coconut oil or any oil you like.

** Pre cooking it on the stove is one option but the other option (especially if you do not have time to do all this) just mix all ingredients, pour in baking dish and place straight into the oven. This will need to be baked for around 18-25 min, all depending on the size and the depth of the dish(es).

A plate of untouched baked broccoli, cheese and pepper omelette

The cheddar cheese can be easily replaced by a nice feta cheese (50-70 g) in which case I would add no more salt. Any other cheese that you may like will do.

Other ingredients that you could bring into this ....

and play around with could be, chorizo, prawns, red onion, spring onion, asparagus, spinach, celery, butternut squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes, dill, dry herbs, cayenne pepper, kale, spring greens and many more. Just get a little courageous, go onnnnn ;-)

I'll let you tell me what other ingredients I haven't thought of using...

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