Tortilla de Calabacín (Spanish-Style Omelet with Zucchini)
Total time: 25 minutes
Zucchini is everywhere in summer! If you don't have it in abundance or simply don't want it, you can substitute fried, sliced potatoes, sautéed onions or sliced tomatoes. Everything else stays the same. You can trim the rind off of the Brie, or not. I didn't. It left interesting white strips on top of the omelet.
I don't flip this omelet because the Brie gets rather runny ...which is why it's so good! You can use another, harder cheese - cheddar, Gruyère if you prefer. If you have some left - breakfast or lunch tomorrow!
Ingredients:
- 1 small zucchini, (6 inches, 15cm) we don't save zucchini bits in the summer.... 200gr, 7oz
- 1 tsp olive oil, 4.5gr, .16oz
- 3oz Brie cheese, 90gr, 3.2oz
- 4 eggs, 260gr, 9.2oz
- 2 tbs fresh snipped parsley
- olives for garnish if you have some on hand
Instructions:
- Cut the zucchini in 1/8" (.3cm) thick slices. You want enough to cover the bottom of the pan in one, non-overlapping layer.
- Heat oil in medium, 8 - 9" (20cm) nonstick skillet or omelet pan (20cm) over medium heat. Add zucchini slices and sauté 5 minutes. Turn and sauté another 5 minutes.
- Whisk eggs.
- Pour half of the eggs over the zucchini. Let cook until almost set.
- Slice the Brie and lay on top of the eggs, sprinkle with parsley and pour the rest of the eggs over the top.
- Cover and let cook. After about 5 minutes, lift cover and check. If center is not set lift the edge of the omelet and pour 1 tsp of water under. Quickly replace the cover and let cook another 3 minutes. That should finish it off nicely. (if, for some unknown reason it doesn't, repeat the trick with the water - it creates steam to cook the top.) The top will not be brown.
- Slide it carefully onto a plate. Cut it into quarters.
- Arrange 2 quarters on each plate, garnish and serve.
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| Nutrition Information Recipe serves 2 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 745 / 372.5 Total Carbohydrates: 9 / 4.5 Dietary Fiber: 2 / 1 Total Fat: 56 / 28 Saturated Fat: 24 / 12 Cholesterol: 1190 / 595 Protein: 54 / 27 Calcium: 334 / 167 Sodium: 950 / 475 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/
