What is the most popular dish in your country?
(Alicja Szczepanik)
The most popular dish in Spain is the Spanish omelette.
Tortilla de patata (Spanish potato omelette) is a classic Spanish dish served
either hot or cold for breakfast, as a main course or in Spain, as a tapas bar
snack, cut into small pieces or wedged between chunks of fresh bread as
a filling in a “bocadillo”. It is delicious, very filling and perhaps a little fattening!
Here is a simple recipe to make this tasty, traditional Spanish dish.
Ingredients
• 5 eggs
• 1 kg potatoes
• extra virgin olive oil
• 1 onion (optional)
• salt
Preparation:
1. Peel and wash the potatoes and cut into thin slices. Heat enough oil in a frying pan and add
the potatoes and a little salt. If you are adding onion, add it after the potatoes. The heat
shouldn’t be too high, so that the potatoes and onions are cooked to perfection.
2. When they start to turn golden move them away (from the heat), put them in a large colander.
To avoid excess oil put them on a plate with absorbent paper. Meanwhile beat the eggs and
add the potatoes, mix well and add the salt.
3. Heat the frying pan again with two spoonfuls of oil to cover the bottom of the pan. Add the
mixture of egg and potatoes and lower the heat. Move with circular movements so that the
omelette doesn’t stick to the bottom of the frying pan.
4. When it starts to make bubbles this is because it has set, and that is when to turn it over. Use
a flat plate, but you can use a straight edged lid. If necessary, put a little more oil into the frying
pan before gently sliding the omelette from the plate to the frying pan, and move around again
with circular movements. So that it sets well, turn it over a couple more times. Leave it to cool
for five minutes.)
Serve hot or cold, cut into pieces or served with crusty bread as a sandwich.
(http://www.vivalanguageservices.co.uk/blog/receta-para-tortilla-de-patatatortilla-espanola-spanish-english/)