In a bowl, whisk 2 eggs. Add ¾ tea glass (about 100 ml / 1/3 cup + 1 tbsp) of flour and whisk until smooth. Dice half a tomato (1 whole if small) into cubes, grate 100 g of kaşar cheese, add both to the bowl, and mix everything together. Heat 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a pan and, once hot, pour in the prepared mixture. Once the bottom is cooked, flip it over with the help of a lid. Enjoy…

About This Recipe

The tomato is a gift long approached with suspicion — believed to be poisonous for centuries. Wild varieties are thought to have first grown in a broad region between the Andes Mountains in South America and the Peru–Ecuador–Bolivia area, in the pre-Columbian era. Their introduction to Central America and Mexico came through the northward migration of indigenous peoples. The fruit belonging to the Lycopersicon sp. (tomato) plant was commonly called “tomate” or “tomato” by the people of those migrating regions. The reason for these names is quite simple: in the local language of the time, the word “tomati” was used to mean a juicy fruit with many seeds. The tomato made its way to Europe around the 1550s, after Christopher Columbus set sail on August 3, 1492, and reached America on October 12, 1492. The Italians were the first to consume it. Evidence exists that by the 1570s, the English and Spanish were growing tomatoes as ornamental plants. The French called it “pomme d’amour,” the English called it “love apple,” and the Italians named it “poma d’oro.”

Another fascinating story about the tomato spans roughly 2,000 years — from the 6th century BC in Persia all the way to 1550s Italy, when the poor of Naples began adding tomatoes to their pizzas during times of hardship. During that entire period, all pizzas were made without tomatoes. It was not until the mid-18th century that tomatoes began to be widely cultivated after their potential was recognized. In the 19th century, they were still being grown as ornamental plants in English greenhouses. In America, the story is a bit more complicated… Americans were introduced to the tomato in 1780, and in 1781 Thomas Jefferson began growing tomatoes in Virginia. However, until the 1840s, tomatoes were believed to be poisonous in North America and their cultivation was banned.

Plain Omelet is generally one of our favorites, but after today’s delicious Tomato Omelet recipe we’ve prepared for you, you might find yourself torn. Bon appétit in advance…