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Spanner crab omelette with coastal succulents and ocean broth

This might just be the flashest omelette you will ever create at home, but what it has in style it also delivers in substance. Delicate crab meat blanketed in fluffy, pillowy egg and the salty crunch of beautiful coastal succulents – a showstopper that can be made to share at any time of day, not just for breakfast!

Spanner crab omelette with coastal succulents and ocean broth

Credit: Rob Palmer

  • serves

    2

  • prep

    5 minutes

  • cook

    10 minutes

  • difficulty

    Easy

serves

2

people

preparation

5

minutes

cooking

10

minutes

difficulty

Easy

level

Ingredients

  • 6 eggs
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 tsp caster sugar
  • 200 g cooked spanner crab meat
  • 20 g warrigal greens, leaves picked
  • 20 g sea purslane
  • 20 g karkalla
  • 150 ml vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp oyster sauce
For the ocean broth
  • 150 ml chicken or vegetable stock
  • 5 cm piece of kelp, soaked for 30 minutes, then drained
  • 2 tbsp light soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar
  • 1 tsp macadamia oil

Instructions

  1. To make the ocean broth, combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan and warm it through over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Reduce the heat to low and keep warm.
  2. Crack the eggs into a bowl and beat lightly, incorporating the fish sauce and sugar.
  3. In another bowl, gently mix together the crab meat, warrigal greens, sea purslane and karkalla.
  4. Heat a wok over medium–high heat until just starting to smoke, then add the vegetable oil. Pour in the egg mixture and cook for 4–5 minutes – the omelette will puff up like a cloud. Once the underside is golden brown, turn down the heat to medium. Spoon the crab and greens mixture into the centre of the omelette, then use a spatula to loosen the edges and fold the omelette in half over itself.
  5. Carefully pour any excess oil from the wok into a bowl, then return the wok to the heat and leave the omelette for 1 minute to warm through before transferring to a bowl. Pour the hot ocean broth into the bowl, drizzle with oyster sauce and serve immediately.

by Mindy Woods (Murdoch Books, $49.99). Photography by Rob Palmer. 

Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.


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Published 17 September 2024 10:08am
By Mindy Woods
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