What do you do in the morning before you run out the door to work?
Scan your emails?
Watch the morning news?
Check your social media?
Get the kids ready?
Do you eat a good breakfast or skip it?
You probably think that you don’t have time to cook breakfast in the morning AND cleanup AND sit down and eat it?
But you do!
You DO have time for a cooked delicious breakfast if you follow my recipe for a quick omelet made in the microwave! Cooking eggs in microwave usually evokes the idea of yellow rubbery blob with completely the wrong texture to be edible. But don’t worry; I will show how to make a delicious omelet in the microwave in practically no time at all!
My first tip is to slightly under cook the eggs. For creamy and fluffy eggs, stop cooking them sooner rather than later.
Ok, so how long do you cook them for?
My second tip is to determine the cooking time for eggs in your particular microwave. Since microwaves cooking power vary based on brand, model, age and even the type of bowl you cook them in, you will need to do some testing to determine the time it takes to cook your eggs to the perfect consistency. Crack open two eggs in a microwave save bowl, add a splash of water and whisk vigorously with a fork until uniformly blended. Place the bowl in your microwave and set the time for about 3 minutes of cooking. Watch the eggs through the door assuming your microwave has a light which comes on when it is cooking.
As the eggs cook they will bubble and will eventually start to solidify. As you continue cooking the eggs will start to start to shrink. That’s the point you want to stop at or even slightly before. For my microwave, this point is about at the 1 minute and 30 second mark.
My the microwave has pre-programmed cooking times so I set it to cook for two minutes and try not to get distracted nibbling on cheese or sipping coffee to stop the microwave at the 1 minute 30 second mark or as close as practical. I am not a perfectionist so some days my eggs are cooked longer and sometimes shorter. I suppose I could learn to program my microwave to the exact cooking time but I guess I enjoy being the master of determining when the eggs are done!
There is minimum cleanup since you cook in the same dish that you mix the eggs in. Wait…Is it too gross to eat this out the same bowl? Maybe… I recommend transferring your omelet to a clean plate.
You can expand this recipe by adding various fillings in your omelet. Depending on what you add you will have to adjust the cooking time. The best is leftover cooked veggies but raw can be added to but they typically will not finish cooking in the time it takes the eggs to cook. It is possible to make a western omelet with this recipe but here are three more tips for filled omelets: First, some veggies like green peppers and onions will not cook completely before the egg does so they might be slightly crunchy or use leftover veggies which are already cooked. Second, If you keep adding things to two eggs you likely will end up with a thick omelet that you will not be able to flip so just put the cheese on top.
Third, you will have to lengthen the cooking time due to the added veggies. Just keep cooking at 15 or 30 second intervals until the eggs are solid. Remember you are trying to sneak up on the finished cooking point not race past it.
Quick Cheese Omelet
Ingredients:
2 large eggs
1 small slice of Gouda, Colby or cheddar cheese
Instructions:
Here is the quick way to make an omelet in less than 2 minutes:
- Crack two large eggs into a microwave safe bowl and add a splash of water
- Whisk the eggs with a fork until uniformly mixed
- Microwave eggs until just set up
- Find some cheese in your fridge: Gouda, cheddar or Colby
- Remove eggs from microwave and add cheese. Fold over eggs so cheese is covered by hot eggs and will begin to melt.
- Enjoy with some fruit!
Please tell me about your egg cooking experiences in your microwave. Always successful? Do you have a great new way to do it? Always a disaster? I would love to hear about them!