This Nigella recipe is taken from her popular Channel 4 series Nigella Bites, based on her popular book How To Eat.
Maybe I should come clean here. Although this is a Keralan dish, I have never, in fact, been to Kerala. But the book's designer had just come back from there when we did the pictures for this book and cooked it for us one day.
To eat is to be convinced and the omlette found its way into the TV programme. One of the advantages is that it's an unusual thing to eat for breakfast but easy to make, and what's more, suitable to be cooked for yourself alone.
Feel free to add as well as subtract ingredients: grated ginger is good, as is chopped fresh mint and, indeed, dried. You can eat this, flat on the plate, with a knife and fork, or roll it up inside a chapati that you've just warmed through in the microwave. And don't tell them in Kerala, but I like this with a splodge of brown sauce, too.
1.Preheat the grill.
2.Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan 20-27cm in diameter and fry the spring onion, chilli and turmeric until soft. Add the other spices and fry for another minute stirring occasional, then add the beaten eggs, swirling the pan to help the eggs set underneath.
3.When the omelette is nearly set, flash it under a hot grill to finish it off, and serve with fresh coriander and chapattis.
© Nigella Lawson, How To Eat, The pleasures and principles of good food - Chatto & Windus, 1998
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