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Spanish Potato Tortilla

Potatoes and onion cooked slow in olive oil, then set with egg into a thick cake. Good hot, warm, or cold.

Spanish Potato Tortilla, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
50 min

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lb yukon gold potatoes
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 8 large eggs
  • 8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  • 1/4 bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley(optional)

Method

  1. Peel the potatoes and slice them thin, then slice the onion.

  2. Heat the olive oil in a 10-inch skillet over medium-low and add the potatoes and onion with half the salt. Cook 20 minutes, turning gently, until completely tender. They should poach in the oil, not fry, so keep the heat down.

  3. Drain in a sieve set over a bowl, keeping the oil.

  4. Beat the eggs with the remaining salt and pepper, then fold in the warm potatoes and let them sit 5 minutes.

  5. Wipe the pan, add 2 tablespoons of the reserved oil, and pour in the mixture. Cook 8 minutes over low heat until the edges set and the center is still loose.

  6. Slide it onto a plate, invert the pan over it, flip the whole thing back, and cook 4 minutes more. Rest 10 minutes before cutting into wedges.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 6 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
Australia$50.27$12.576 of 6 ingredients
New Zealand$51.80$12.956 of 6 ingredients
Greece25,37 €6,34 €6 of 6 ingredients
United Kingdom£23.64£5.915 of 6 ingredients
Egypt‏٦٨٧٫٦٩ ج.م.‏‏١٧١٫٩٢ ج.م.‏5 of 6 ingredients
Canada$74.01$18.505 of 6 ingredients
Spain13,58 €3,40 €5 of 6 ingredients
Austria€ 22,37€ 5,595 of 6 ingredients
United States$21.61*$5.404 of 6 ingredients
Germany7,75 €*1,94 €4 of 6 ingredients
Mexico$692.98*$173.253 of 6 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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