Tortilla Española

Spanish Cold Omelet

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Cook’s Canon: 101 Recipes Everyone Should Know

By Raymond Sokolov

Published 2003

  • About

This is not the Mexican flat bread made from cornmeal. It is a thick potato omelet, often served cold, which is the most typical of all dishes eaten in Spain. The word tortilla means a little torta or pie. Clearly, the term itself is pre-Columbian, although the omelet could not have been made before the conquest of Peru and the subsequent export of the potato, a native of the Andean