Spanish Potato Tortilla

Tortilla Española de Patatas

Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4 to 6

    as a tapa
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      50 min

Appears in
Hemingway's Spanish Table: A Culinary Journey in 60+ Recipes

By Howie Southworth

Published 2026

  • About

The iconic tortilla española de patatas offers cloudlike chunks of fried spuds and sometimes softened onions suspended in a custard of whisked eggs. Onions are the subject of fiery debate across Spain, where we have the “with-onion” crowd, con-cebollistas, and on the other side, the “without-onion” devotees, sin-cebollistas! Sin-cebollistas either believe in the humility of the potato and consider any interlopers to be flourish, or that onion delivers an unnecess