How to make the best "Tortilla de Patatas". Recipe for the best Spanish Potato Omelet

in food •  7 years ago  (edited)

Today, I'm going to tell you how to make one of the most famous dishes in my country, Spain: Tortilla de Patatas. A mix of food and art as you can see in this picture ;D

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But it won't be a normal potato omelet. I'm going to tell you how to make the best potato omelet in Spain. The potato omelet with caramelized onion served at the pintxos bar "Juana la Loca" (Barrio de La Latina, Madrid). I, who have tried it, can guarantee you that it is delicious, and if not too much curdled, well better (you can see the photo example).

Spanish Potato omelette recipe with caramelized onion: Tortilla de patatas

Ingredients of potato omelet with caramelized onion:

1-2 large onions or 2-3 small onions
6 tablespoons sugar (blanquilla or morena)
1 shot of Modena vinegar
1 large potato or 2 medium potatoes
4 eggs (L)
Olive oil and salt

Preparation and comments:

  1. Make the caramelized onion. Cut the onion into julienne pieces and poach it with a drip of olive oil until it turns transparent. Then add the sugar, stir and continue to poach over medium heat. Allow the sugar to caramelize for a few minutes (the mixture turns brown).

Add a splash of Modena vinegar (contributes better color than white vinegar and is somewhat sweet) and stir for a couple of minutes. Remove and leave to cool.

  1. Prepare potatoes and eggs. Cut the potatoes into slices, add salt and fry in plenty of oil (medium heat after a first heat stroke). Drain the potatoes and let them cool a little. Beat the eggs and add the fried potatoes, leaving this mixture to rest for a while (with 5 minutes would suffice, but I usually leave it about 1 h). After the rest, add the caramelized onion to the mixture.

  2. Make the potato omelet with caramelized onion. Pour the mixture of potatoes, eggs and caramelized onion into a frying pan with a little oil. Place the tortilla on one side and turn it over with a plate or turntable. You can give it some more twists and turns, if you think it's necessary, but don't curl it too much! (actually this really depends on your tastes).

  3. Present and eat at room temperature (not cold)....

Note: Adding caramelized onion at the last minute is based on looking for the contrast between sweet onion and salted potato. If mixed earlier, the sugar could be transferred to the beaten egg and the final result would look like a traditional omelet to which sugar has simply been added.

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Looks good...but these eggs look a bit raw :p ... Great stuff! Greetings from Spain! :)

Haha, I thought it looked like an apple pie.

OMG.....i like this

thats what i look like in front of the fridge at midnight :D

Damn this looks so good! Just followed and upvoted, keep it up!

😯😯😯😯😱 wowww... Yummyyy🤤

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Ya tengo ganas de comerme una , gracias por le secreta

This post food is very good, i am like it

Que buena pinta!!!
Dan ganas de comerla :)

delicioso platillo amigo, felicidades un abrazo

Donde esté una buena tortilla de patatas, que se quite lo demás! :)

Comería tortilla de patatas todos los días de mi vida jeje

Looks yummy! My boyfriend is from Extremadura and he agrees that tortilla in that photo looks super delicious. We both prefer it a little undercooked inside. We've never tried adding a bit of modena to the onions but it sounds good!
I'm not Spanish and as an experiment I made a sweet potato tortilla. Tasted good too but yellow potatoes are the best ones. :D

Se ve delicioso :D

It's my favourite dish ;D

i would eat it in a second !!!

Es una gran tortilla se ve exquisita. congratulations!

ohh wow ! what's this mmmm i wanna test it really haha :p

You add sugar to the Tortilla???? That is crazy.

Uff tortilla que buena que esta

Se ve muy buena! He intentado hacer tortillas... Voy a tomar tu receta.
No olvides seguirme 👍😊

These look really delicious!

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Really Really amazing Ommelette!!!

Delicious!

Yummy!

I'm glad you like it ;D

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Looks yummy. Thanks for sharing.

Que rico que es la tortilla con papas! una vez por semana hago una tortilla un poco diferente.

Corto las papas en cubitos y las pongo a freir despues
corto unas salchichas en pedazitos y tanbien las pongo a freir

bato 3 huevos y les agrego pimienta y cebollitas de verdeo
le agrego a las papas y salchichas
y vooala una rica tortilla!!!

jammm jammmm

saludos

La hice y es muy sabrosa, gracias por la receta

Se ve deliciosa.

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se ve deliciosa @crisvedia

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