Potato Tortilla

Preparation info
  • Makes

    8

    wedges
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Anna and Michael Olson Cook at Home

By Anna Olson and Michael Olson

Published 2010

  • About

A real Spanish tortilla has nothing to do with corn or flour flatbreads. It’s all about potatoes, sliced and cooked and bound with eggs to make a great potato pie, for lack of a better term.

Ingredients

½ cup | 125

Method

Heat an 8-inch (20-cm) pan with oil over medium heat and layer potato slices around pan, seasoning lightly with salt and alternating with onions. Cook slowly until potatoes are tender (lift occasionally to prevent browning). They shouldn’t stick together. Remove the potatoes from pan, draining oil, except for 2 Tbsp (25 mL).

In a bowl whisk eggs together and add potatoes to coat. Heat t