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Potato omelette (tortilla de patatas)

Cuisine: Spanish Created by Paula Baspino

Ingredients

250ml (1 cup) olive oil
4 medium-sized potatoes, peeled, quartered and thinly sliced
6 eggs
Salt

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Preparation

Heat the oil in a large frying pan and gently fry the potatoes until almost soft, stirring from time to time so that they don't burn on the bottom of the pan. Drain the potatoes in a colander to get rid of the excess oil. The potatoes should be soft but not crisp. Remove oil from pan.

Beat the eggs in a bowl and season with salt. Add the potatoes, mix well and check seasoning.

Heat the frying pan on a moderate heat. Pour in the potatoes and eggs and shake the frying pan from time to time so that the omelette doesn't stick to the bottom.

Once the bottom of the omelette has set turn the omelette by placing either a flat plate on the frying pan and quickly turning over. Gently slide the omelette back into the frying pan and continue cooking, once again shaking the pan from time to time so that it doesn't stick to the bottom.

When omelette has set slide out of pan onto a plate to serve.

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10 Mar 2011 09:11 AEST

Candice

Geelong

Authentic as it gets

This can be done with or without onion our family also sometimes use red or green capsicum cut into large pieces (cook with the potato). Great for a sidedish or weekend lunch.

29 Aug 2010 09:03 AEST

Christopher Jack

Dee Why

Missing the onions

The recipe should include at least one thinly sliced onion otherwise it's not a tortilla de patatas

28 Nov 2009 09:42 AEST

yolanda

middlesex

missing ingridient

this recipe is missing the onions

17 Aug 2009 02:09 AEST

YMAR

sydney

yummy in my tummy

Woooohhhooo looks rather nice but i would prefer if there were some rabbits in the dish just to give an exotic taste. mmmmm yum yum

21 Jul 2009 07:04 AEST

I love food

Over here ...

Omg

I love potato its so yum this is a great recipe i add bacon and parsely it tasted great and is good for fussy familys

17 Jul 2009 09:11 AEST

Kirsten

Cremorne

This recipe tastes so authentic and is soo easy to make

I worked as a waitress at a Spanish restaurant in Hobart for years. I pestered the cook for the recipe for the potato omelette for a long time and here it is.... This is a fantastic dish that can be cut into small square pieces and served cold on gourmet nibble platters.

31 May 2009 03:37 AEST

Ceelly

Fern Tree

yummy

This recipe inspired me to get my frying pan out and start making omelettes again. It adds a bit more substances to a plain omelette. You can steam the chopped potato with a little water in a container in the microwave if you wish but frying the chopped up potato as in the recipe is yummy. I can't flip the potato omelette with a spatula I had to use plate as in the recipie. Very good todler food my son loves it.

24 May 2009 07:10 AEST

ella

Kelvin Grove

mm..potato..

Made this today, added some fresh chives and parsely, was good!

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