Omelet in a Bag
This is a creative and easy recipe for omelets that takes up less space than a frying pan, carton of eggs and all the ingredients you want in your omelet. It’s also a lot quicker and involves less mess and clean up time. All you need are freezer bags,(individual servings=sandwich size bags, family size servings use 1/2 gallon-1 gallon size bags. Adjust ingredient amounts and cooking time for size of the bag). You must use freezer bags for this, regular bags do not freeze well at all and cannot handle the heat from the boiling water. If you don’t use freezer bags, you will end up with your omelet busting out of the bag and floating around in your pan of water! Can we say “ewwwwww”!!!
Okay, let’s make an omelet!
Take 3 eggs (again, adjust the amount of ingredients to the size of omelet in a bag you are making) and whatever ingredients you want in your omelet.
Pot of boiling water.
Beat eggs, just like you do when you make scrambled eggs.
Put ingredients (cheese, veggies, bacon, sausage, etc.) in the freezer bag. I always make sure that any meat I add to my ‘omelet in a bag’ ..is cooked BEFORE I add it.
Pour eggs into freezer bag.
Mix contents of the bag thoroughly (I knead the contents together for about a minute or two), try to remove as much air as possible from the bag after you’re done kneading everything together.
Seal it up! If you have a vacuum sealer, make sure you use the right setting on it..or you will end up having it suck all of your eggs out of the bag!
I store the omelet bags in the freezer until I’m ready to use them.
To Cook: ( adjust cooking time for the size of the bag. The times given are for the sandwich bag size.)
Bring water in a pan to a boil. Place omelet in a bag into the boiling water and boil it for about 15 minutes. Make sure you move the bag around while it’s in the water, flip it back and forth a few times to make sure that the entire bag gets its share of the heat and cooks all the way through.
Remove from boiling water and open bag..carefully! Watch out for steam!!! Hold your bag open and poke the omelet with a fork to make sure it is completely cooked. If not, re-seal the bag and place back into the boiling water for a few more minutes. The total cooking time shouldn’t be more than approx. 20 minutes.
Remove from water, open bag ..poke again with fork. It’s time to eat!!!!
