Omelette au Broccio

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

Sweet Goat’s Cheese Omelette with Fresh Mint

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

Europe
France
Cannes
Main course
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Breakfast
Provence
Gluten-free

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