Poro - the jewelled Parsi Omelette
Poro is a Parsi style masala omelette with onions, tomatoes, chillies and coriander, goes best with buttered slices of bread and lemongrass chai.
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Total Time 20 minutes mins
Course Breakfast
Cuisine Indian
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 clove garlic finely chopped
- 1 - 2 green chillies finely chopped
- a few sprigs coriander finely chopped
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 small tomato finely chopped
- 1/4 tsp ground turmeric
- 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp salt divided
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Heat the vegetable oil in a pan. Fry the cumin, garlic, green chillies, onion, tomato on a medium heat for 3-4 minutes until onions are translucent.
Season with half the salt, pepper, turmeric and red chilli powder and fry to combine well.
Break the eggs in a bowl and whisk well with 1/4 teaspoon salt to combine the yolks and whites.
Turn the flame to high. Spread out the sauteed vegetable spice mix uniformly around the pan and pour the egg mixture to cover this.
Cook for 3-4 minutes on a medium high flame. Using a pancake flipper / spatula, flip the omelette and cook the other side for a minute or so.
Cut into 4 pieces and serve with buttered slices of bread.