I had Tilapia & green beans earmarked for dinner this evening, but I just didn’t quite feel like it after I got back from the gym. So, through process of elimination, I looked around the kitchen to see what else I could make. Well, I had plenty of apples, some eggs and some cheese — voila, I could make a cheese-apple omellete. I had no idea if it would taste good, but it seemed like a good idea in my head ;).
Realizing that the heat of cooking eggs isn’t enough to cook an omelette’s ingredients, I decided to pre-cook the apples beforehand (I learned that part from Good Eats). So, I chose one of the smaller apples from the bag and proceeded to dice it (I figured that a too-big apple wouldn’t fit inside the omelette).
After dicing the apple, I preheated the pan and added about a half-inch slice of butter (yeah, real butter). Once the butter melted, which happened fairly quickly, I tossed in the apples. From here, I just played it by ear — I added a dash of cinnamon along with a good heap of Splenda.
At this point, I wasn’t sure how long to cook the apples. But, I aimed for the softness and texture of a baked apple. And, it actually took about ten minutes or so for the apples to soften and reduce. When the apples were ready, I set them aside in a bowl and realized that I could reuse the pan without rinsing it — no sense in losing the yummy apple sludge from the bottom of the pan.
From here, the omelette process was fairly conventional. I cooked the omelette about three-fourths through and then added the apples and the shredded cheddar. Of course, the apples were already cooked, but I also wanted to allow the cheese to melt.
The cheese only took a few seconds to start melting and I soon plated the omelette. It wasn’t a pretty omelette — the diced apple wedges made it a bit of a lumpy beast — but I was anxious to try it.
I wasn’t sure what to expect as I dug in to that first bite, but it turned out all right. In particular, I wasn’t sure how well the sugar/cinnamon of the apples would work with the eggs, but it was much better than I thought it would be. Would I make an apple-cheese omelette again? Yeah, I think I would.