Name: Duck egg omelette with coconut (Telur Dadar Padang)
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 1 red chilli or ½ tsp chilli powder; 1 tbs cold water; 3 duck eggs; 2 tbs vegetable oil; 1 or 2 fresh grated, or desiccated, coconut; salt; 1 clove garlic; 2 shallots

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This savoury omelette is thick and satisfying, and can be eaten either as a main dish with rice and vegetables or as a snack with salad.

Ingredients

3 duck eggs
2 shallots
1 clove garlic

Method

Peel the shallots and garlic and seed the chilli. Chop them finely, or better still pound them together. Mix them with the coconut and the water, and add a little salt to taste. Then beat the mixture thoroughly with the eggs. It needs more beating than an ordinary plain omelette and should become quite fluffy.

Heat the oil in a wok, and spoon it over the sides or tilt and turn the wok s