Name: Omelette au Broccio (Sweet Goat’s Cheese Omelette with Fresh Mint)
Yield: 2
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 2 mint leaves for decoration; sugar for sprinkling; 3 eggs, lightly beaten with 2 tsp/10 ml sugar; 1 tbsp/15 ml double/heavy cream; 3 tbsp/45 ml mild goat cheese (Fresh corsican for preference), diced; ½ oz/15 g unsalted butter; 3 fresh mint leaves, cut in thin strips

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Table in Provence

By Leslie Forbes

Published 1987

About

This sweet omelette has a rich, melting texture and the tang of fresh mint. It is an ideal way of using the mild and creamy Corsican goat (and ewe) cheese Broccio, or the stronger tasting Brin d’Amour with its covering of wild herbs that smell of mint and new-mown hay.

Ingredients

½ oz/15 g unsalted butter
3 fresh mint leaves, cut in thin strips

Method

Heat a 10 in/25 cm omelette pan. Melt the butter with the strips of mint over a high heat. When the bubbles start to die down, add the eggs, followed immediately by the cheese and the cream spooned over th