Potato Spinach and Feta Cheese Omelet

This is an omelet with a few of my favourite ingredients put together. Spinach and Feta make a delicious pair, and with potatoes and eggs, it couldn't get any better!

You will need:

1 Idaho baking potato, peeled and grated
4 tbsp olive oil (or any cooking oil)
2 cloves garlic
1 (10-ounce) bag of spinach, washed, stemmed, and spun dry
1/3 cup feta cheese, crumbled
4 eggs
1 tbsp butter

Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a 4 to 6-inch nonstick pan. Transfer grated potato to the hot pan. Pat into thin pancake. Cook until golden on one side, 4 to 5 minutes. Turn pancake over and cook until golden on other side, 4 to 5 minutes more.

Pour remaining olive oil into another non-stick pan. Thinly slice 2 cloves of garlic. Place garlic in cold oil and bring up to heat slowly. Saute until garlic is just golden. Remove garlic from pan and add spinach. Cook until just wilted. Remove from pan.

Beat 4 eggs until just combined. Do not beat in too much air into eggs or the texture will be dry. Add 1 tbsp butter to spinach pan. After foam has subsided, pour in the eggs. While stirring the eggs with a fork, shake the pan back and forth.

Once the bottom of the omelet has set, slide in potato pancake. Add spinach and crumbled feta cheese on top of potato. Run omelet under broiler until cheese starts to melt. Remove from broiler and fold into half moon shape. Sprinkle sauted garlic slices over top of omelet. Serve.

This is a fully 'loaded' omelet...enough to satisfy any hunger pang!

Happy Gowri and Ganesha habba!

It’s festival time again and that means time to make all those delicious festive goodies.

Back home in India, it’s a tradition to buy the Gowri and Ganesha idols made out of mud or plaster of paris. Here, it’s almost impossible to find these idols and even if we do find some, the idols are too big. So I decided to make the idols at home this time, out of play clay. Two of my friends have been doing it since a few years and I saw their work last year. That was an inspiration and I gave it a try.

Gowri Idol

Ganesha

Gowri habba oota (lunch):

Lime Rice with lima beans, Moong Dal and Carrot palya, Rice, Obattu/Holige Rasam(Saaru) and Obattu.

My aunt was here a couple of weeks ago and she taught me how to make Obattu. Last year I made them with instructions from mom over the phone and also with memories of how I had seen mom make them. They turned out well but not as good as the ones I had eaten at home. This year, with a demo from aunt, these were easy to make and turned out far better too.

Ganesha habba:

Idlis, Chutney and Steamed Kadabus

We usually make Bell pepper gojju to go with the idlis, but this time I made coconut chutney. More steamed varieties here.

Hope all of you had a wonderful festival too!