Want to learn how to make a perfect omelet at home? This easy omelet recipe makes it simple to create delicious, restaurant-quality omelets in your own kitchen! It’s quick, budget-friendly, and easy to customize with your favorite ingredients. Why spend money eating out when you can whip up this tasty and healthy breakfast in minutes? Check out our easy recipe below!
How To Make An Omelet They Will Rave About!
If you don’t know how to make an omelet, this easy omelet recipe will help you to make omelets like a pro in no time! Egg omelets are an easy to make and super versatile breakfast food. They can be as simple as eggs and cheese or eggs and meat or they can be as extravagant as you like!
There’s no reason to spend a fortune buying a breakfast omelet at a fancy breakfast restaurant when you can easily make an omelet at home in a few minutes without having to ditch the pajamas and ducky slippers!
While you’re first trying to learn how to make an omelet, you will want to allow yourself to make several omelets before you expect them to be perfect. You don’t have to use the oil that this recipe calls for, but I have found that even in non-stick pans it can be a challenge to keep the egg mixture from sticking to the pan. The oil is an easy insurance policy to learn to make this easy omelet recipe perfect every time.
Inevitably, you will have a few imperfect omelets as you learn, but be patient with yourself and you’ll quickly develop a knack for it! If it’s not going as expected and you don’t think you can save it, don’t stress about it. You can always stir it as you would scrambled eggs and it will still be edible and delicious. As long as you’re not serving omelets at a fancy restaurant, it’s not a disaster!
You will use the same kind of whisked egg mixture you would use for scrambled eggs to make the base of the omelet. While the eggs start to cook, you add whatever filling ingredients you like. There are so many delicious possibilities for filling ingredients, so be sure to experiment with them if you like your food to be a flavor adventure!
How To Make An Omelet That’s Super Fancy
You can make this easy omelet recipe as simple or as fancy as you like. Some people prefer them with just eggs and cheese. Others like to toss some ham in to the omelet. Here are some ingredient ideas that you can mix and match to make the super tasty omelet of your choice!
- Crumbled bacon or bacon bits
- Ham, or other lunch meat, sliced small
- American, Cheddar or Mexican cheese blend
- Blue cheese
- Goat cheese
- Any other cheese you would like to try
- Sliced black olives
- Sliced mushrooms
- Chopped green onion – These are great for filling and also for a pretty garnish at the end.
- Chopped white onion or red onion – Go easy on these so they don’t dominate the flavor
- Bell peppers or other peppers – Any color is OK. if you like spicy foods, you can experiment with hot peppers, but it’s best to start conservatively with the hot peppers so you don’t overdo it.
- Cilantro, if you’re going for a Mexican theme
- Diced tomatoes
- Salsa – Chunky pico de gallo style salsas work well, but you can use others. If it’s very watery, you might drain some of the liquid or use it sparingly.
Easy Omelet Recipe Shortcut
If you’re only planning to make one or two omelets, here’s an easy shortcut for the filling ingredients: If your grocery store has a salad bar, instead of buying all the ingredients separately, buy a collection of the ingredients from the salad bar that you think sound good as omelet fillings.
I would often make my wife breakfast omelets for special occasions like her birthday or Mother’s Day. I would visit the salad bar the night before and look for ingredients that sounded good. You can use the small salad dressing cups to get the perfect amount of each ingredient ready to just pour into the opelet as you cook it.
This is an easy way to experiment with new filling ingredient possibilities when you’re learning how to make an omelet.
This easy omelet recipe is one of the easy recipes in our Dining On a Dime Cookbook Volume 2!
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What’s The Difference Between An Omelet And An Omelette?
OK, I had to address one thing – Some people get confused about whether to spell this tasty dish omelet or omelette. What’s the difference? Haha! The things that cause controversy! Here’s the scoop:
Omelet is typically the American spelling, but Omelette is the French spelling, which is the typical spelling that the British use. So regardless of whether you’re wondering how to make an omelet or how to make an omelette, this easy omelet recipe will do the trick! Then again, maybe an omelette is best! After all, most food tastes better in Paris! 😉
Thank you. I have been trying to make omelets my whole life with no success. I will certainly try this. I always enjoy all the things you post as well as all your things on You Tube. I own both Dining on a Dime cook books as well as a lot of your E books. I love watching your family and feel as if I know all of you. Keep up the good work. You have many fans out there.
Oh thank you Barbara for being such a sweet viewer and reader. : )
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For 1 egg, would I use only 1 Tbls of mixed ingredients?
I too have had a hard time trying to make omelets. I will certainly try this one. Thanks!
Sheri it doesn’t need to be exact you really can use as much or as little as you would like of the mixed ingredients.
I got an omelet pan at an estate sale for $2. I finally succeeded making an omelet. I no longer go out for omelets. The last time I went was 6 years ago, when my son and I went out for breakfast. Our meal, which had hash browns for him and coffee for both of us, was over $30 once we added the tip. I’m sure it is more now.
I look at menus online to get ideas for different kinds of meals often. I just made a Caprese omelet, which has tomatoes, basil and mozzarella cheese. That was delicious.