How delicious is the potato omelette! Many of us remember that when we were little it was one of our favorite foods and, surely, it still is. It is a classic, easy recipe that everyone usually likes and, therefore, here we want to explain how to prepare a classic potato omelette in the easiest way.
If you are a beginner in the kitchen or if you are looking for a way to get the perfect potato omelette, start gathering the basic ingredients (eggs, potatoes and onion), put on your apron and take note of how to make potato omelette step by step and delicious with this unCOMO recipe.
3 diners
45 minutes
Low difficulty
Ingredients:
Steps to follow:
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To start with this potato omelette recipe, start by washing, peeling and cut the potatoes “A la española”, that is, in slices of about 4 mm. This thickness of the slices is one of the tricks to make the perfect potato omelette and delicious, but there is more. However, you can also cut them into small dowels or triangles.
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Put the oil in the skillet on high heat. When it’s hot fry the potatoes until you see them well done, but it is not necessary to brown them.
3
When you’re ready, reserve the potatoes in a dish. We recommend putting a piece of absorbent kitchen paper to remove excess oil from potatoes.
4
While the potatoes are draining on the kitchen paper, as this is a potato omelette recipe with onion, now it’s you turn cut the onion diced or half julienne, as in the picture.
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Add the onion to the oil To do it well over medium heat, you can still use the same oil from frying the potatoes. Fry the onion until the pieces are transparent.
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While the onion is being made, take the opportunity to beat the 4 eggs in a bowl, with salt to taste and, if you want, also some pepper.
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Once the onions are transparent, add the beaten egg and potatoes to the skillet as shown in this picture.
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Cook the potato omelette over low or medium heat, but checking the bottom with a spatula so that it does not stick or burn.
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If you don’t have one special pan for making tortillas, which is like two pans joined together and with a closure to turn the tortilla without problems, with the help of a plate or a lid from the pan itself you will have to turn it over.
For flip the potato omeletteYou have to place the lid or plate on the pan and then turn it over so that the pan is on top and the plate or lid is on the bottom with the tortilla resting on it. After this, you have to place the part of the tortilla that was on top without cooking, and that is now on the bottom touching the plate or lid, on the surface of the pan, so that the omelette is finished cooking. For it, carefully slide tortilla onto skillet, tilting the lid or the plate little by little so that it falls into the right place in the pan and you can leave it well placed.
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Ends of cook the potato omelette over low heat for about 5 more minutes. Take it out of the pan and place it on a plate, ready to eat!
Now that you know this potato omelette recipe in the pan, we recommend you to know other versions of the typical Spanish potato omelette:
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Advice
- You can add a little chopped chorizo. If you add it, you can cook it together with the onion.
- Any other ingredient that you want to add to the potato omelette recipe, you will have to put it at the time of joining the egg with the potatoes and previously cooked.