I am passionate about teaching my boys life skills and for me a big part of that is cooking. I aim to give them the skills in the kitchen to read recipes, prepare food and cook and bake meals from scratch. At eight and nine, they are pretty handy already and vegetable stuffed omelette is a great recipe for kids as they are do it all themselves.
Vegetable stuffed Omelette
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp . olive oil
- 1 red onion diced
- 100 g Mushrooms sliced
- 1 small red pepper diced
- 1 small green pepper diced
- black pepper
- 8 eggs
- 2 tomatoes diced
- 60 g cheddar cheese grated
- 1 avocado sliced
- 1 tsp . paprika
Instructions
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Sizzle the veggies…
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Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a large frying pan and fry the veggies till soft and golden. Season with black pepper then set to one whilst you sort the other bits.
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Get cracking with the omelettes …
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Crack 2 eggs in a bowl and give them a whisk up.
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Add a drizzle of oil to a medium sized frying pan and go in with the egg mix.
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Swirl it round the pan to get a nice even coating.
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As is cooks gently push the outside edges into the centre to let the still runny egg move out to the edges.
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When the omelette is just set sprinkle over some of the tomatoes and cheese.
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When the cheese is nice and oozy you’re good to go, pile in some of that sautéed veg, fold over and tip onto serving plate.
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Do exactly the same to knock up the remaining omelettes and serve topped with sliced avocado and a sprinkle of paprika.
It helps to think about the fact that children will be preparing the meal when buying the ingredients with them. This recipe called for mushrooms and we picked large flat mushrooms as they are much easy for the boys to handle and cut, rather than small ones.
Tip: There is nothing wrong in using frozen vegetables. We have frozen sliced peppers in the freezer and used them in this recipe. Frozen onions are also great for kids too as they don’t get sore eyes when chopping them
We have moved on to real knives, but I drum in to the boys about knife safety. Before this we used salad knives and childrens knives from The Pampered Chef.
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When cracking eggs it helps for kids to crack them one at a time in to a small glass that way they can fish out any shell that might go in.
The boys did a really good job with their vegetable stuffed omelette. They were delicious and they will certainly be making them again.
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Love this as a campaign so important to teach our children how to cook! Hate the thought of my children not be able to cook a healthy meal or know about healthy balanced diet. 1 in 4 that is a scary amount that not cooked for their children!
Great, you’ve given me the idea to try omelettes with mine – they’d never eat stuffed with veggies though 😀 Love that idea of frozen onions too – how have I got to 42 without that tip?!
We use frozen veggies loads – especially in recipes like this. Much easier to prepare and often cheaper too x x
It’s nice to see kids getting involved in preparing healthy food! Veggies may not be a kid-favorite but there are ways to make them like it. Thanks for sharing!
This looks and sounds delicious
It is great that your boys are so competent in the kitchen already x
Brilliant, I will try this one with my boys. I think they’ll feel inspired to see photos of other children having a go. Thanks.
This looks delicious, it’s great to get the kids involved and learning how to cook
I think I need to get my son more involved in the cooking. He needs to learn to eat more vegetables and more varied food.
I am so going to try this just looks amazing .
Looks delicious!! My little boy loves cooking so will be getting him to help too! Thanks for sharing xx
Omelettes were the first things my brother and I cooked when my nan started to find doing the cooking too hard. He always put bizarre ingredients in!
Teaching them to cook from a young age gives them a really important life skill – well done boys – looks yum! x
Such a good skill for younger people to have and one that often gets missed x
I think that cooking at home, especially with boys, is essential. My eldest is going to start making meals 3x a week to help him prep for when he is away to university 🙂 Off to look up that site now!
Wow that’s amazing! I love this recipe but also how brilliant your kids are at chopping the veggies and getting involved. Very inspiring.
How delicious & easy! 🙂
That omelette looks delicious. Well done boys!
Thank you for the tip about The Pampered Chef – it’s so difficult to find a knife that’s suitable for younger children.
Yum! Your boys can come and cook for us anytime – this looks delicious!
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