Spain

Potato Tortilla

This is a dinner that we had one night in Spain, sort of a DIY tapas thing. We had discovered these potato tortillas at a supermarket when we first got into Spain and because they were so cheap we didn't think they would be very good. We were wrong.

What we have here is just cherry tomatoes, pitted green olives, emmental cheese, salsa and two types of potato tortilla. The first is a plain one and the second has a layer of ham and cheese in the middle. I actually preferred the plain one because I thought it had better flavour and I don't think that the addition of ham and cheese was necessary.

The tortilla's do contain egg but it is minimal, Quentin who hates eggs said that he didn't notice. The main flavour is potato, it is salty but only in a good way and there is some sort of other flavour in there as well, maybe from the way they are cooked. We just heated these up in the frying pan for a few minutes on each side and they were done.

We had them quite a few nights while we were in Spain actually, and they were really good just by themselves or with some salsa. I have seen them in one supermarket in the UK but they were much more expensive here than in Spain where they were only 1-2 Euro. I might experiment with making my own but we will have to see.