Bread omelette sandwich is one of the Indian street foods made with eggs, spice powders and other basic ingredients. This can be served for breakfast or brunch.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 3 minutes
- Cook time: 5 minutes
- Total time: 8 minutes
- Yield: 1
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- 2 to 3 slices bread (brown)
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon oil
- salt (as needed)
- ⅛ teaspoon turmeric
- ⅛ teaspoon crushed black pepper (crushed as desired (optional))
- ⅙ teaspoon sandwich masala (or chaat masala (optional))
- 2 tablespoons onions (chopped)
- 1 tablespoon capsicum (chopped)
- 1 green chili (chopped)
- 1 tablespoon coriander leaves (fine chopped)
- 1 tsp butter
- 1 to 2 slices cheese (or grated cheese as desired)
- 1 to 2 tsps Tomato ketchup (or sandwich chutney or any other chutney)
- ¼ teaspoon Italiann herbs
Method
- Chop onion, chilies, coriander leaves and capsicum. Rinse a bowl and break the egg to it. Discard the shell. Beat the egg until frothy.
- Add the chopped onions, chilies, coriander and capsicum. Add salt and turmeric. Beat the mixture once more.
- If you like you can butter the bread and then with chutney or ketchup.
- Add oil to a pan and heat it. Pour the beaten eggs and allow to cook until the base firms up.
- While it cooks, you can also shape it to a square with the help of spatula. Flip it and fry until the egg is completely cooked.
- Flip it back and sprinkle crushed pepper and herbs if using.
- Place your cheese slice on the omelette. Lift up the omelette with a spatula.
- Place a bread slice on the tawa and place the omelette along with cheese. Place another slice of bread and toast until the cheese melts. Cheese will melt very quickly under 2 minutes since the omelette is very hot.
- Halve the bread omelette sandwich and serve hot or warm with a cup of tea.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.