Tag: cajun
Tasso Omelette
Tasso Omelette
Here’s another great use for tasso ham that I came up with on this Fat Tuesday, 2021. This omelette has the holy trinity of Cajun cuisine, onion, celery, and bell pepper, and some spicy homemade tasso ham as the base. Sauté them with green onions on a griddle, then pour in 3 beaten eggs. Let it set for a minute. Sprinkle cheese down the middle. Fold over the sides to the center and flip onto your plate. I also cooked up some sweet potato hash browns to accompany the omelette.
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/4 lb tasso ham finely diced
- 3 tbsp onion finely chopped
- 3 tbsp celery finely chopped
- 3 tbsp bell pepper finely chopped
- 2 green onions finely chopped
- 3 large eggs beaten
- 1/4 cup Monterey Jack cheese
Instructions
- Heat up cooking oil on a griddle over medium high heat. Sauté the tasso ham for 2-3 minutes until fat has rendered out.
- Add the onion, celery, bell pepper, and green onion to the griddle. Sauté for 2 minutes.
- Turn the heat to medium. Pour in the beaten eggs. Let set for a minute.
- Push the sides of the eggs to the center to form a circular shape. Put the cheese down the middle.
- Flip the right third of the omelette to the center, then the left third on top of that.
Tasso Ham
Tasso ham is a Louisiana specialty. Instead of using a pork leg, pork shoulder is cured, dry rubbed with what is pretty much andouille sausage seasoning, and smoked. The result is a spicy, fatty, ham shoulder that is used in numerous cajun recipes such as jambalaya, gumbo, etouffee, beans and rice, and many more.
Equipment
- Electric Smoker
Ingredients
- 5 lbs boneless pork shoulder cut into 1” thick steaks
- 8 oz sea salt
- 4 oz sugar
- 2 tbsp pink curing salt
- 1/4 cup white pepper
- 1/4 cup cayenne pepper
- 2 tbsp marjoram
- 2 tbsp allspice
- 2 tbsp garlic powder
- 2 tbsp thyme
Wood Chips
- hickory wood chips
Instructions
- Mix together the salt, sugar, and curing salt.
- Dredge each of the pork steaks in the curing mixture.
- Place the pork steaks on a baking pan. Wrap in foil and let cure in the refrigerator for 4 hours.
- After 4 hours, rinse off the cure on each of the pork steaks. Pat dry with paper towels.
- Mix together the white pepper, cayenne, thyme, garlic powder, allspice, and marjoram.
- Season both sides of the pork steaks.
- Preheat your smoker to 225 degrees. Place the pork steaks into the smoker. Smoke for 2 hours until the internal temp reaches 150 degrees.
- Let the tasso cool completely before use.
