Main dish baked omelet recipe

Omelets are good, but to make everybody an individual omelet is time consuming. The baked omelet is the solution for creating a hearty breakfast-style main dish that is great for brunch or dinner.

This baked omelet recipe will serve about four people, maybe six if they are light eaters. Feel free to expand the recipe and make it bigger if you have a larger crowd. If you put a double recipe in one pan, you should bake for another 10 minutes, or you could just use two small pans and follow the recipe as is.

Recipe ingredients:

10 eggs, use organic and/or cage free eggs if available.

1/4 cup butter

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup milk

6 slices of bread, stale is OK

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup chopped spinach or other green vegetable like asparagus, broccoli, or zucchini

6 to 8 cooked breakfast sausage links

1 cup Cheddar cheese, grated

1 baked or boiled potato

To begin, melt the butter and put it in a square 9 x 9 x 2 baking dish or a dish of roughly equivalent size. Cut the bread slices into cubes and peel and cut the cooked potato into slices or cubes. The bread chunks give the omelet some fluff and volume. If you don’t have a leftover baked potato, just microwave a potato really quick. Give the hot potato some time to cool before handling. You can also substitute with a couple handfuls of frozen tater tots if you want. Cut the cooked sausage links into bite size portions.

In the buttery dish, distribute the bread cubes, potato, sausage, chopped spinach (or other vegetable) in an even arrangement so every serving of the omelet gets some of everything. Now beat the eggs, salt, sour cream and milk together thoroughly. Pour the eggs into the pan and then sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake the omelet in a 325 degree F oven for 30 minutes or until eggs are cooked all the way through.

This version of the baked omelet is a very mild one. You can always enhance it by adding chopped green onions or 1/2 cup salsa or a small can of mild green chilies.

The baked omelet is nice to serve with fruit, muffins, or other sweet breads.

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