Description
Making a simple cheese omelet and home fries for any time of the day is one of the most comforting meals I can imagine. I love a good, fluffy, buttery omelet. Follow along with my video and you can make it too!
Ingredients
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For the Omelet:
- 3 eggs
- pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 slices American cheese
- basil garnish (optional)
- sliced tomatoes (optional)
For the Home Fries:
- 2 large russet potatoes
- ¼ cup diced red pepper
- ¼ cup diced green poblano pepper
- ¼ cup diced onion (any kind)
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 ½ teaspoons adobo seasoning
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1-2 tablespoons olive oil
Instructions
- Boil potatoes in a pot with water. This can be done the day before. Typically, I put the potatoes in and turn the heat on high. It takes about 30 minutes to get them tender start to finish. Stick a knife through the potato to check tenderness.
- Once the potatoes are cooked, cut them into cubes.
- Dice your onions, red pepper, and green pepper.
- Put olive oil and butter in a pan on low to medium heat and add the potatoes.
- Add adobo seasoning and dried basil. Mix well to coat the potatoes.
- Once potatoes are crispy, turn them with a spatula. Should take about 7-8 minutes for crispiness.
- Add peppers and onions. A splash more olive oil here. Mix thoroughly and let peppers and onions cook through.
- Crack and beat three eggs with a pinch of salt.
- On low heat, melt butter and olive oil in a pan until sizzling.
- Add beaten eggs. Push sides of eggs in and let raw egg fill the gaps in the pan. Keep repeating this until most of the egg is cooked.
- Turn heat to lowest possible setting and cover the omelet for 3 minutes. We need the steam to make our omelet fluffy.
- Uncover the pan. Shake the omelet so you can move it in the pan a bit. It’s time for the flip. Watch the video for this.
- Once omelet is flipped, add American cheese or whatever cheese you want.
- Fold the omelet over and let cheese melt. Turn off heat.
- Serve/eat immediately with home fries.
Notes
- The cook time is 40 minutes because I included the potato boiling in there.
- The yield. You could easily split a 3-egg omelet between two people and the home fries are really for 2 and you will probably still have some leftover.