Ingredients
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5 large eggs
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salt, to taste
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pepper, to taste
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1/4 cup vegetable oil, divided
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1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
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4 -6 medium mushrooms, sliced
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3 scallions, cut into fine rounds (white and green parts)
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4 tablespoons chopped cilantro
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1/2 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
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1 garlic clove, chopped
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1/4 cup canned chopped tomato (lightly drained, if using fresh, double the quantity)
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1 fresh hot green chili pepper, cut into fine rounds
Instructions
- Break eggs into a bowl. Add salt and pepper and beat well. Pour into a glass measuring cup.
- Filling:
- Put 2 T of oil in a medium sized frying pan and set over high heat. When the oil is hot, put in the mustard seeds - as soon as they begin to pop (just a few seconds) put in the garlic.
- Stir once or twice. As soon as garlic starts to brown, put in the mushrooms and stir till mushrooms lose their raw look.
- Turn heat to medium and put in the scallions, green chile, cilantro, ginger. Stir till the green seasonings have wilted - about a minute.
- Put in tomatoes and a little salt and pepper. Stir for 30 seconds (or for fresh tomatoes, till they are no longer watery) and turn off heat.
- Put 1 T of the oil in a 7-inch nonstick frying pan (or just spray it with cooking spray) and set over high heat.
- When hot, pour in half the beaten eggs. Using a wooden spoon or the back of a fork, stir the eggs for the next 3-4 seconds till they look like lumps of soft custard held together in one unbroken layer.
- Quickly spread half the filling along the center of the omelet and fold it over.
- Cook for a few seconds and flip omelet over onto a warm plate. Make the second the same way.
- Serve immediately.