Dishes of the province of Tuscany - one of the varieties of Italian cuisine. Try a Tuscan omelet with a distinctive aroma and taste. For it, natural and fresh products are used, so this dish is not only tasty, but also healthy.
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You will need
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- For Tuscan omelet:
- 8 eggs;
- 1 yellow and 1 orange pepper;
- 1 red onion;
- 10 young shoots of green asparagus;
- 15 pitted olives;
- olive oil;
- oregano
- thyme
- salt
- pepper to taste.
Instruction manual
1
Prepare green asparagus: cut off the hard ends and be sure to rinse the stems with cold water. Put asparagus in a double boiler and boil for five minutes. If there is no double boiler, lay the stems in a metal colander and place it over a pot of boiling water.
2
Cook the asparagus until soft. Then rinse it with cold running water and put it in a colander or on paper towels so that the glass liquid.
3
While the asparagus stalks are cooked, chop the onion and bell pepper in half rings. Fry them in a heated pan with vegetable oil (it is better to use olive). Put the prepared onion and pepper on a plate.
4
Beat four eggs lightly, add finely chopped thyme, salt, pepper and mix. Pour the beaten eggs into a skillet with preheated olive oil and fry the omelet.
5
Put the finished omelet on a dish. Cut olives into circles. Put on the omelet fried onions and peppers, circles of olives.
6
Stir four eggs with chopped oregano, salt, pepper and fry the second omelet. Until it cools down, press in the salted asparagus stalks into it, lay on the first. Sprinkle with pepper. Serve the Tuscan omelet hot.
note
When buying green asparagus, choose dense, mature stems. The thick stalks of asparagus have a delicious aroma, but they have a very solid base that needs to be trimmed.
If the asparagus is tied in a bun, it quickly deteriorates. Therefore, before placing it in the refrigerator, be sure to untie the bunches and spread the stalks of the asparagus so that they do not touch each other. In this form, it does not deteriorate for 5 days.
In extreme cases, asparagus can be frozen. Such asparagus is only suitable for hot dishes and pies.
Useful advice
To make the omelet more magnificent, you can pour water or milk at the rate of one tablespoon of liquid per egg into a bowl with eggs, and then beat well.
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