Truffle Tortilla

Name: Truffle Tortilla
Yield: serves 4 as a meal, 8 as a snack
Ingredients: salt; 1½ lb waxy potatoes; big knob best unsalted butter or generous splash bland olive oil for frying; 1 fresh black truffle (as much as you can afford, the size of a walnut will do); freshly ground black pepper; 5 eggs – beaten

Preparation info

serves
4
as a meal

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

This simplest of uses for the valuable black subterranean funghus is also the one which I think best shows off its elusive flavour. Suitable for vegetarians.

Ingredients

1½ lb waxy potatoes
salt
big knob best unsalted butter or generous splash bland olive oil for frying

Snack
Main course
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
November

Method

Cover scrubbed but unpeeled potatoes with cold salted water. Bring to the boil. Lower heat, cover pan and leave at a lively simmer until cooked. Take out of water and leave until thoroughly cold. Pull off skin and slice potatoes quite thickly.

Heat butter or oil over medium-low flame in a heavy, preferably cast-iron frying pan (this should either be non-stick or used sufficiently to hav