How to make Spanish Tortilla -

Call it a tortilla or omelette, it is delicious all the same.

Sanjeev Kapoor

This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.

Main Ingredients : Potatoes (आलू), Onion (प्याज़ )

Cuisine : Spanish

Course : Snacks and Starters


Spanish Tortilla

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Hindi: Aloo

Why is it that when you are stuck at “what should we cook today” the answer is always “make some aloo!” Potatoes are like this…extremely popular and have multipurpose usage.

And did you always think that eating a potato will make you fat?
Well, don’t – it is a surprising source of vitamin C and provides useful amounts of starch, thiamine and niacin and around a hundred grams will provide about eighty calories.
Little did you know!

 

Prep Time : 6-10 minutes

Cook time : 41-50 minutes

Serve : 4

Level Of Cooking : Moderate

Taste : Mild

Ingredients for Spanish Tortilla Recipe

  • Potatoes peeled, quartered and finely sliced 2-3 medium

  • Onion sliced 1 large

  • Olive oil 4 tablespoons

  • Butter 1 tablespoon

  • Salt to taste

  • Eggs beaten 8

  • Garlic cloves crushed 2-3

  • Crushed black peppercorns a pinch

  • Fresh parsley chopped for garnish

Method

Step 1

Heat olive oil and butter in a non-stick pan. Add onion and sauté till it turns soft.

Step 2

Add potatoes, cover and cook for fifteen to twenty minutes, stirring occasionally.

Step 3

Add salt to the beaten eggs and mix well.

Step 4

Add garlic and crushed peppercorns to the potatoes and mix well. Add eggs, cover and cook for twenty minutes.

Step 5

Slide the tortilla onto a plate and place another plate on top, turn the whole thing over and slide it back into the pan to cook the other side.

Step 6

Garnish with parsley and serve warm.

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MasterChef Sanjeev Kapoor

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is the most celebrated face of Indian cuisine. He is Chef extraordinaire, runs a successful TV Channel FoodFood, hosted Khana Khazana cookery show on television for more than 17 years, author of 150+ best selling cookbooks, restaurateur and winner of several culinary awards. He is living his dream of making Indian cuisine the number one in the world and empowering women through power of cooking to become self sufficient. His recipe portal www.sanjeevkapoor.com is a complete cookery manual with a compendium of more than 10,000 tried & tested recipes, videos, articles, tips & trivia and a wealth of information on the art and craft of cooking in both English and Hindi.