Ingredients for Cooking an Omelets

Series Summary

The egg is one of those foods that you can find almost anywhere you go. Its role as a staple food in the world diet is due in part to its value as a protein supplement and its ability to help foods bond together. Because of these superior qualities, a myriad number of ways have been devised to cook eggs: scrambled, fried, sunny side up, over easy, over hard, as an omelette, hard boiled, poached—and there’s no end to the number of recipes that require eggs, including cakes and other desserts, pastries, soups, quiches, custards, fried rice, potato salad, and sandwiches. All in all, eggs are one of nature’s ultimate foods.

In this free breakfast cooking series, learn how to make a couple of variations on the classic egg omelette. Chef Donno walks you through this dish from start to finish, including the ingredients used, how to prepare the vegetables, how to fry the meat, add seasonings, and how to cook the perfect omelette in the skillet. He also shows you how to flip an omelet, an essential skill for any chef. Try these easy omelette recipes today. Gourmet cooking is easier than you think!

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Chef Donno and on behalf of Expert Village, welcome to my kitchen. Today we're going to do a pretty cool breakfast deal. We'll be making Spanish omelets. We're going to make three variations. Three different set ups. So whatever works for you, you can go with. This way you can be creative not only with the ingredients, but the color and balance which is all very important. So first of all, our ingredients. You'll need green onions, red onion, onion, bell peppers. I go with the green and yellow. Tomato, garlic, sour cream, tomato sauce, Monterrey Jack. Roughly one pound of ground beef. Just depends on how much filling you want to make. We have cumin, butter, salt, black pepper, eggs of course for the omelet, lettuce and fresh cilantro. For our flipping demo, you will need a piece of bread. So I will teach you how to actually flip the omelet. You'll impress everyone at breakfast. They'll love it."