This site uses only a few technical cookies necessary for its operation. By continuing to browse, you accept their use.
To find out more...
To find out more...
Gratin-style spinach and chicken omelette
A simple omelette treated more like a gratin: the omelette forms the bottom layer in the dish, topped with chicken and spinach in a cream sauce and browned in the oven.
55 K 5/5 (1 reviews)525506
Last modified on: August 16th 2020
For 6 people, you will need:
- 1
200 g cooked chicken - 2
1 shallot - 3
2 tablespoons olive oil - 4
300 g cooked spinach - 5
200 ml cream - 6
6 eggs - 7
20 g butter - 8
50 g grated cheese - 9
Salt - 10
Pepper - Total weight: 1,125 grams
Times for this recipe
Preparation
20 min.
Cooking
25 min.
All in all
45 min.
When should you start or finish this recipe?
If you start now, at , you will finish around : ?.Change start time
To finish around 7pm, you'll need to have started before: .Change end time
Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.
Stage 2 - ⌛ 1 min.
Pour 2 tablespoons olive oil into a frying pan on high heat. When good and hot, add the chopped shallot.
Salt, pepper and cook for 1 minute without colouring.
Salt, pepper and cook for 1 minute without colouring.
Stage 3 - ⌛ 1 min.
Add the chicken pieces and mix well.
Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.
Add 300 g cooked spinach.
Stage 5 - ⌛ 2 min.
Add 200 ml cream, salt and pepper again then mix well. Turn down the heat and leave to thicken gently.
Stage 6 - ⌛ 4 min.
Meanwhile, break 6 eggs into a bowl, salt and pepper, then whisk together.
Stage 7 - ⌛ 1 min.
Put a small frying pan on medium heat and melt 20 g butter. Pour in the beaten eggs.
Stage 8 - ⌛ 4 min.
Gently pull the eggs from the edge into the centre with a soft spatula until they are just barely set.
Turn off the heat.
Turn off the heat.
Stage 9 - ⌛ 2 min.
Stage 10 - ⌛ 1 min.
Spread the chicken and spinach mixture on top.
Stage 11 - ⌛ 1 min.
Top with the grated cheese.
Stage 12 - ⌛ 20 min.
Bake for about 20 minutes.
Remarks
Do take care not to overcook the eggs in stage 8 or they will dry out in the oven.
Keeping: 1 or 2 days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.
Source: Home made.
Support the site ❤️
This site has been around for years, with no advertising, no pop-ups, no traps, no information gathering, and I maintain it alone, out of passion.
If you liked this recipe, your support helps me to keep going.
Support cuisine-facile.com
If you liked this recipe, your support helps me to keep going.
Support cuisine-facile.com
Nutritional information
| Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats | Calories | Energy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per 100 g | 77 g RDI=120 % | 10 g RDI=4 % | 40 g RDI=55 % | 180 kcal RDI=9 % | 757 kJ RDI=9 % |
| Per person | 145 g RDI=224 % | 20 g RDI=8 % | 75 g RDI=104 % | 339 kcal RDI=17 % | 1,420 kJ RDI=17 % |
| Whole recipe | 874 g RDI=1,346 % | 122 g RDI=46 % | 453 g RDI=622 % | 2,034 kcal RDI=102 % | 8,518 kJ RDI=102 % |
How much will it cost?
For 6 people
4.50 €
Per person
0.75 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
Cooked spinach
You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fish terrine with spinach and tomatoesTagliatelle New Zealand styleEggs "en cocotte" with spinachSpinach parmentierPolenta with spinach and soft-poached egg See all 37 other
Cooked chicken
You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Beans with tomatoesHot sesame-cream chicken tartinesValay saladRice and peasLemony chicken and radish salad See all 16 other
Other recipes you may also like
News list of cooking-ez.com
Sign up to receive the latest recipes, next batch due to be sent on 2026-05-17
We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Post a comment or question
Follow this recipe
Receive an e-mail as soon as this recipe is modified or receives a new comment.
We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Alternatively: you can subscribe to the mailing list of cooling-ez.com , you will receive a e-mail for each new recipe published on the site.