British

Cheese Omelette and Chips

Name: Cheese Omelette and Chips
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 6 eggs; 1 cup shredded cheddar; 1 tbsp butter; 20 oz frozen French fries; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Margaret @margaret_yorkshire

Cheese Omelette and Chips is British home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Pescatarian Eggetarian Gluten free Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

6 eggs
1 cup shredded cheddar
1 tbsp butter
20 oz frozen French fries
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 425F and spread the frozen fries on a sheet pan.
Bake the fries according to the packet directions, about 20 minutes total, flipping once.
Meanwhile whisk the eggs with salt and pepper.
Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat and pour in half the eggs, tilting to cover the base.
Scatter half the cheddar over one half as the eggs begin to set, then fold over and slide onto a plate once set, about 3 minutes.
Repeat with the remaining eggs and cheddar.
Serve hot with the chips alongside.

Watch how to cook Cheese Omelette and Chips

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cheese Omelette and Chips, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cauliflower Cheese
  
  40 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cheese Omelette and Chips carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Cheese Omelette and Chips
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Salad with New Potatoes
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Bubble and Squeak
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 620 kcal
Protein: 21 g
Carbs: 47 g
Fat: 39 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 820 mg
Saturated fat: 15 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Cheese Omelette and Chips takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.