Tortilla de patatas

Hands down my favorite (and easiest) recipe from Spain!

Ingredients!

- You’re going to need 4 eggs, oil, salt, and potatoes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About how much oil you will need

 

 

 -You fill up a pan with A LOT of oil. A little more than half of the way full.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sliced potatoes

 

 -Then you take a couple of potatoes (4-5, depending on how big you want it), peel them, and slice them so that they look kind of like potato chip slices. Make sure they’re thin.

 

 -Make sure you sprinkle the slices with salt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frying them in the pan

 

-Then you put them in the boiling oil.

-You’re going to take your spatula and move them around a little bit, but not too much. Just enough so that they don’t stick to the pan and get evenly cooked.

-The potatoes should stick together a bit. That’s how they make the omelet.

-Make sure you flip the potatoes so that they’re evenly cooked on both sides.

-Once they’re nice and brown, you take the potatoes out and put them to the side. (We put them in a drainer over a bowl to extract some of the excess oil… because there is A LOT.

 

 

Mixing the eggs

 

-Now you take about 4 eggs and beat them together in a bowl.

 

-You then mix together the batted eggs and potatoes in a bowl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Combining the eggs and potatoes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mushing the eggs and potatoes together

 

-Smash the potatoes up so that they’re evenly coated in the egg batter. Don’t be afraid to break them apart with the fork.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What it turns out like

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Place it in the pan

 

 -You then pour the egg and potato concoction back into the pan.

 

-Press it down a bit with the spatula.

 

-Move the sides of the potato and egg in to form a circle… Exactly like you would with an omelete.

 

 

 

 

 

Move the sides in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Once it’s hard you pick up the pan, place a plate over the top, and flip it

 

Flip it as such

The finished tortilla de patatas!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Set the pan down, and slide the potato/egg omelet back into the pan to cook the no cooked side.
-Let it cook
-You may want to flip it about 2-3 more times
But when you’re finished, you have a delicious tortilla de patatas!

 

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