Scrambled Egg Omelette

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Ingredients

  • 350 g ripe mixed-colour tomatoes
  • ½ a bunch of fresh basil 15g
  • ½ –1 fresh red chilli
  • ½ × 125g ball of mozzarella
  • 4 large eggs

Instructions

  • Finely slice the tomatoes, arrange over a sharing platter, then dress with a little extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, sea salt and black pepper.
  • Pick most of the basil leaves into a pestle and mortar, pound with a pinch of salt into a paste, then muddle in 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil to make a basil oil.
  • Finely slice the chilli.
  • Finely chop the mozzarella.
  • Place a 26cm non-stick frying pan on a medium heat with ½ a tablespoon of olive oil.
  • Beat and pour in the eggs, then stir regularly with a rubber spatula, moving the eggs gently around the pan.
  • When they’re lightly scrambled but still loose, stop stirring and scatter the mozzarella in the centre, then drizzle over the basil oil.
  • Let the bottom of the eggs set for 1 minute, then – technique time – pick up the pan, tilt it down and, with your other hand, keep tapping your wrist until it shakes the eggs up the side of the pan; use the spatula to flip it back to the middle, then fold the top half back over, too.
  • Turn it upside down on to the tomato platter, set side up.
  • Slice down the centre to reveal the oozy scrambled eggs in the middle.
  • Scatter over the chilli (as much as you dare!
  • ) and remaining basil leaves, and tuck on in.
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Course Eggs