Snacks and Light Meals Recipes - Piperade Baps Recipe

  
 

Snacks and Light Meals Recipes - Piperade Baps Recipe

Ingredients

Serve 4

  • 50 g/2 oz butter

  • 1 tablespoon sunflower oil

  • 1 large onion, chopped

  • 1 garlic clove, crushed

  • 1 green pepper, cored, deseeded and cut into thin strips

  • 4 streaky bacon rashers, rinded and diced

  • 4 eggs, beaten

  • 1 1/2 tablespoons cold water

  • salt and pepper

  • 4 floury baps, warmed

Method:

  1. Melt 15 g/1/2 oz of the butter with the oil in a 23 cm/9 inch frying pan with a flameproof handle, add the onion, garlic, green pepper and bacon and fry gently for about 5 minutes, stirring from time to time.

  2. Meanwhile, whisk the eggs with the measured water in a bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour into the onion mixture in the pan and stir lightly with a fork.

  3. Cook over a gentle heat for about 3 minutes, until the omelets is golden brown underneath.

  4. Place the pan under a preheated hot grill for 2-3 minutes until the open omelets is set on top. Turn on to a board and cut into quarters.

  5. Split the baps and spread with the remaining butter. Place an omelets quarter in each bap and serve immediately.