Ingredients
The following ingredients have 4 Servings
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
- ¼ pound spicy breakfast sausage
- 3 to 4 ounces fresh green beans (a handful)
- finely chopped
- 1 shallot
- chopped
- 2 cloves garlic
- chopped
- 1 inch ginger
- minced or grated
- 1 small plum tomato or ½ vine tomato
- chopped
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons fish sauce
- 2 teaspoons superfine sugar
- 2 bird's eye chili peppers
- minced (optional)
- 1 tablespoon peanut oil
- ½ pounds mushrooms
- mixture or all of same type: shitake
- hen of woods and/or crimini
- wiped clean
- stemmed and finely chopped
- ¼ cup grated carrot
- ¼ cup fresh peas
- 2 shallots
- finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic
- finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons fish sauce
- 2 teaspoons superfine sugar
- 2 bird's eye chili peppers
- minced (optional)
- 8 eggs
- 1 inch ginger
- grated or minced
- 2 cloves garlic
- grated or minced
- 1 small Thai bird's eye chili pepper
- minced (optional)
- 1 inch fresh turmeric
- trimmed and grated (or ½ teaspoon ground turmeric)
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon white pepper
- Peanut oil
- about 1 tablespoon per omelet
- 1 clove garlic
- grated or minced
- 3 Thai bird's eye chilies
- minced
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon superfine sugar
- 3 tablespoons peanut or other neutral oil
- Juice of 2 limes
- 1 cup packed Thai mint or mint and cilantro leaves (a generous handful of each)
- chopped
- ½ red onion
- halved and thinly sliced
- 2 seedless cucumbers
- halved and seeded and thinly sliced
- ½ cup chopped roasted salted peanuts
Instruction
- For the sausage filling, heat oil in small-medium skillet, add pork and brown and crumble, add green beans, shallots, garlic, ginger and tomato, stir-fry 2 minutes, add soy, fish sauce, sugar and chilies, toss to combine and remove from heat
- For the mushroom filling, heat oil in small-medium nonstick skillet, add mushrooms and brown 3 to 4 minutes, add carrot, peas and shallots, cook 3 to 4 minutes more, add garlic, soy, fish sauce, sugar and chili peppers, if using, toss and remove from heat
- For each omelet, prepare your filling first
- Whisk up the egg base
- To make a stuffed omelet, heat a 12-inch nonstick pan over medium-high heat with 1 turn of the pan of peanut oil, swirl the pan to coat
- Pour in half the egg base mixture (4 eggs worth), and swirl the pan again to settle the eggs and let cook to form skin
- Use a rubber spatula to peel back the edges of the omelet and swirl the pan to settle the eggs again
- Top the pan with lid for well done or let stand off heat for a minute to keep eggs soft on top for a softer stuffed omelet
- Let cool for a minute or two in the pan, add your filling to the middle of the omelet and fold in the edges toward the middle
- Use a plate to help you flip the stuffed omelet over so that the seam is on the bottom
- Whisk up dressing in bowl, toss with cucumbers and onion and peanuts and serve or chill until ready to serve