Chickpea Flour Omelette Stuffed with Vegetables

Sunday morning brunch idea!! If you are missing your eggs on a plant-based diet, while avoiding added cholesterol and saturated fats like a champ, this recipe is for you! Chickpea Flour Omelette Stuffed with Vegetables is extremely simple to make. You just stir up the omelette ingredients and pour into the frying pan. Add your chopped up veggies to the omelette and fold over. These cook up very quickly and are moist and delicious. So, if you are like me, stuck on tofu scrambles, smoothie bowls and steel cut oats for brunch, this will be a fun alternative!

You can have these Chickpea Flour Omelettes Stuffed with Vegetables on the table in less than 20 minutes.

This past week has been filled with smokey skies, wildfires, covid resurgence and an overall sense of lethargy. This is our view right now…

The good news is, I can hear rain… tiny drops on the skylight. Hurray! It’s the first rain in 45 days. We need a slow rain for about a week, but at this point we will take anything.

Why are these egg free omelettes so healthy?

Chickpea flour (simply ground chickpeas) is nutritious – high in protein and fiber. Each omelette contains 1/2 cup of chickpea flour which is the equivalent of one serving of legumes. The more legumes in your diet, the more you can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes and even some types of cancer. (1)

To fill these little pockets of goodness, you can use any vegetables that you enjoy, or whatever you need to use up in your fridge. Just chop and lightly stir-fry them in some vegetable broth and spices before adding them inside the omelette.

I have to admit, when I used to eat eggs and tried to make an omelette, they always ended up as scrambled eggs, because I could never get the flip quite right. These Chickpea Flour Vegetable Omelettes are SO much easier to work with. And… no animal was harmed or kept in cruel and unsanitary conditions. Even if the eggs come from backyard hens, eggs are NOT a health food.

If you aren’t sure why eggs are not the perfect food, here is a blog post I wrote on the subject. Unfortunately the media has us second guessing ourselves constantly…

Chickpea Flour Omelette Stuffed With Vegetables

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Serves: makes 4 omelettes Prep Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes 10 minutes

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Ingredients

• CHICKPEA OMELETTE MIX:
• 2 cups chickpea flour
• 3/4 cup almond milk (or other plant-based milk)
• 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
• large pinch black pepper
• VEGETABLE MIX:
• 1 cup broccoli, finely diced
• 1 cup red pepper, finely diced
• 1/2 cup zucchini, finely diced
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 2-3 small garlic cloves, diced
• spice of your choice (I used steak spice and garlic powder liberally)
• OPTIONAL ADD ONS:
• - salsa
• - sauerkraut
• - sprouts
• - fresh herbs
• - avocado

Instructions

1. Wash and chop vegetables.  Stir fry with a couple of tablespoons of water or vegetable broth. 
2. Season liberally with spices of your choice. (This is important or you will have bland vegetables.)
3. While the vegetables are cooking, mix all of the dry omelette ingredients in a medium sized bowl.  
4. Add the milk and stir with a wooden spoon until well mixed. 
5. Remove the vegetables from the frying pan and set aside in a bowl.
6. Wipe out the frying pan.
7. Pour 1/4 of the omelette mix into the frying pan.  (Use a tiny bit of oil if needed to stop the omelette from sticking).  Flatten the batter out with a spatula until the circle is about 1/2" thick.  Cook on medium/low until bubbles form and the omelette is cooked enough on the bottom that it can be lifted off of the base of the pan. 
8. Add 1/4 of the pre-cooked vegetables onto one half of the omelette.  Gently fold the opposite half over to cover the vegetables. 
9. Cook for another 4-5 minutes, flipping halfway through.
10. Can be served with toast, salsa, sauerkraut, avocado, sprouts, or fresh herbs. 
                                 
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Notes

*Use any of your favourite vegetables to stir fry and add inside the omelette! (mushrooms, tomatoes, artichoke, cauliflower, capers, etc.) *To speed up the cooking process, use more than one frying pan.