Pear & Gruyere Omelet
Recipe: #11342
November 26, 2013
Categories: Breakfast, Lunch, Dairy, Cheese, Eggs, Fruit, Pear, Swiss, Budget-Friendly, Easy/Beginner Cooking, Quick Meals, Small Batch Cooking, Brunch, Weeknight Meals, Skillet, Stove Top, Gluten-Free, High Protein, Vegetarian more
"Pears and creamy Swiss Gruyere fill this easy omelet."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (261.3 g)
- Calories 520.4
- Total Fat - 44 g
- Saturated Fat - 24.6 g
- Cholesterol - 507.1 mg
- Sodium - 309.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 11.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.1 g
- Sugars - 6.8 g
- Protein - 19.7 g
- Calcium - 260.8 mg
- Iron - 2 mg
- Vitamin C - 28.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Melt 3 tablespoon of the butter in sauté pan.
Step 2
Sauté pear slices until just turning soft. Remove from pan and set aside.
Step 3
Beat together eggs, cream or milk, and salt & pepper until blended but not frothy.
Step 4
Melt remaining butter in omelet pan over high heat until foam begins to recede but before beginning to color.
Step 5
Pour in egg mixture into omelet pan, stirring lightly, but allowing it to set on the bottom.
Step 6
Top half of the omelet with sautéed pears and cheese.
Step 7
With spatula, fold other half over pears and cook until cheese begins to melt. Cut omelet in half and slide out of pan onto heated plates.
Step 8
Serve.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.