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Chiang Mai Street Food-style Mini Omelettes

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
Beaten eggs are poured into a special pan (a cast iron aebleskiver pan is used here), topped with whole shrimps, chopped spicy sausage meat, bell pepper and scallions, and cooked until set. This Chiang Mai street food is served with chili sauce for dipping. Sweet chili sauce is equally good.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Thai
Servings 4 people
Chiang Mai Street Food-style Mini Omelettes Served with Sweet Chili Sauce for Dipping

Equipment

  • Aebleskiver pan

Ingredients
  

Fillings

  • 6 whole shrimps shelled, deveined and tossed with salt and pepper
  • 1 spicy sausage chopped (see notes after the recipe)
  • 2 bell peppers deseeded and chopped
  • ΒΌ cup thinly sliced scallions

Omelettes

  • 4 large eggs
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 2 tablespoons cooking oil

Instructions
 

  • Prepare all your ingredients and lay them out like an assembly line.
  • In a bowl with a spout, beat the eggs with two to three pinches of salt and as much pepper as you like.
  • Set the aebleskiver pan on the stove over medium heat and brush the grooves liberally with oil.
    Brushing aebleskiver pan with oil and pouring in beaten eggs
  • Pour the beaten eggs into the grooves until about three quarters full.
  • Add the whole shrimps into some of the grooves, and chopped sausage meat into the others.
    Adding whole shrimps, chopped sausage meat, bell peppers and scallions to egg in aebleskiver pan
  • Sprinkle chopped bell pepper and sliced scallions on top of the shrimps / sausage meat.
  • Cover the pan and cook the mini omelettes until firm and the undersides are browned and crisp (by this time the shrimps will be fully cooked and the sausage meat heated through).
    Cooking mini omelettes in aebleskiver pan
  • Scoop out the mini omelettes using a spoon and transfer to a plate.
  • Repeat until all the ingredients have been used up.
  • Serve the Chiang Mai street food-style mini omelettes with sweet chili sauce.

Notes

Fully cooked sausage (casing discarded) was used here. If using sausage with raw meat, slit the casing and discard, and pan fry the sausage meat in its own fat until done before adding to the eggs.
Updated from a recipe originally published in March 6, 2020