Baked Omelette

A delicious oven baked omelette filled with sliced new potatoes, red peppers and tangy Cheddar cheese. I promise this will be your new favourite way to cook omelette!

I've really got into a little habit of baking omelettes in the oven. It's just so easy!

It means you can have dinner ready for everyone at the same time.

And if you've got leftovers then they taste great cold the next day stuffed into a crusty bread roll.

Omelettes are a good thing to make at the end of the week, just to use up any odds and ends of vegetables, meat or cheese before you do the next big food shop.

Equipment Needed

• Chopping board

• Sharp knife

• Teaspoon

• Jug or bowl for whisking eggs

• Fork or whisk for mixing eggs

• Oven proof skillet pan or casserole dish

• Wooden spoon for cooking

Baked Omelette Ingredients

I've given you the ingredients for a basic potato omelette but feel free to add in any extras that you like.

• 1 tbs olive oil - you can swap this for sunflower or rapeseed oil if you prefer.

• 1 red pepper - sliced

• 1kg cooked new potatoes - peeled, boiled and sliced

• 8 eggs 

• 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning 

• Pinch salt 

• Pinch black pepper 

• 50g Cheddar cheese - grated

• 1 cucumber - sliced, to serve

How To Make Oven Baked Omelette

You're going to LOVE how easy oven omelette is to make and once they're in the oven, there's no hands on cooking to do - just wait and eat!

I cook these in a shallow casserole pan that's hob and oven safe. If you don't have one of these - simply pour everything into a 20cm lightly oiled roasting tin and cook it in that.

Step One - preheat the oven

• Preheat the oven to 190C (170C fan) / 375F / Gas Mark 5

• First up - slice the cooked cooled new potatoes.

Step Two - fry the pepper strips

• Add a splash of olive oil to a skillet pan and gently fry the red pepper strips for around 5 minutes to soften.

Step Three - whisk the baked omelette mixture

• Then take a large jug and crack in the eggs, add half the cheese, the Italian seasoning and a good pinch of salt and black pepper. Lightly whisk the egg mixture together with a fork.

Step Four - pour the baked omelette mixture into the pan

• Next tip the sliced potatoes into the pan with the peppers (or if you're using a roasting tin, tip them into that). Then pour over the egg mixture and swirl it around the potatoes and peppers.

• Scatter over the rest of the grated Cheddar cheese.

Step Five - bake the omelette

• Then place into the hot oven and bake for around 35-40 minutes or until the egg mixture is set and cooked through properly.

• Remove the baked omelette from the oven and leave to rest for 5 minutes, then slice into wedges and serve with the cucumber salad garnish.

Make Oven Omelette Your Way

You can add all sorts of extra ingredients into an oven omelette, really make it your own recipe. Try...

• Chorizo - the boxes of ready diced chorizo you can pick up in the supermarket work well in this recipe.

• Different cheeses - feta, Italian hard cheeses like Parmesan or Pecorino or try Red Leicester or even a crumbly Lancashire cheese.

• Add in more vegetables - try adding in sliced mushrooms, baby plum tomatoes, onions, thinly sliced fennel or courgettes.

• Go spicy - like a little kick of heat? Then add in some freshly chopped chillies or a pinch of chilli flakes.

What To Serve With Oven Baked Omelette

When I'm serving this as an easy lunch recipe, I generally just add a little cucumber salad, but when I cook it for dinner and I want it to be a more substantial meal I add some crusty bread and a few side dishes like salads, coleslaw or even a pasta salad.

And don't forget if you've any leftover omelette then let it cool and store it in an air tight container in the fridge you can eat this the next day as an easy grab and go snack idea - I love to stuff it into a crusty roll with salad and mayonnaise.

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