Once I figured out there is no ‘e’ on the end of omelet, but there is one in the middle, the only question left about what is in a Denver omelet is what ingredients make a Denver omelet. It’s odd that anybody went out and bothered to name this three-ingredient omelet, but they did, so here with are. Time to find out what’s in a Denver omelet.
What Ingredients Make a Denver Omelet?
A Denver omelet starts with eggs just like any other omelet. On most breakfast menus in Denver, you will see three egg omelets as the most common amount. At Denver Breakfast champ, Snooze, they don’t bother naming out the ingredients in a Denver omelet, but they do offer a three-egg omelet with your choice of ingredients. You can even go egg white omelet, but you’re on your own there as far as I’m concerned.
The best ingredients inside a Denver Omelet are ham, green pepper, and onion. Any real omelet should contain cheese as the default, but if you are looking to split hairs, then the real Denver Omelet ingredients are ham, green pepper, onion, and cheese.
Denver Omelet Recipe
Since a Denver Omelet’s ingredients may not be common knowledge, asking for a Denver omelet recipe isn’t quite as bad as in the commercial where Gordon Ramsay yelled at that guy for asking Alexa for a grilled cheese recipe. However, once you know the ingredients used in a Denver omelet, there really is not much left to put into a recipe.
The Denver Omelet Recipe Steps
- Crack 3 eggs into a shallow dish.
- Add 3 tablespoons of milk
- Whip it. Whip it good.
- Pour the eggs into a heated omelet pan.
- As the eggs start to firm, tilt the pan and pull back the firmed egg allowing liquid to flow onto the pan.
- Once you’ve gone around and gotten most of the egg firming up, add the diced ham, green pepper, and onion.
- Let it cook for a minute or two
- Sprinkle shredded cheese on top of the ingredients.
- Fold the omelet in half
- Cook for a minute to let the cheese melt
- Flip to the other side to make the grilled sides the same.
- Pull it and plate it.
In Denver, a lot of us choose to add some form of hot sauce to our Denver omelets. Regular Franks Hot Sauce or Tabasco sauce works just fine. However, in your finer breakfast establishments (those that aren’t Dennys, Village Inn, or iHop) you might get the choice of a more interesting hot sauce, maybe even a local blend.
Remember, lots of places will let you switch out your side of toast for pancakes.