Rouxbe

Hello from sunny Alicante (Spain)! I am new here. This is my first comment and I will be brief and straight to the point:

1. I agree with all other spaniards about pepper and deep frying potatoes but I can tell I have seen people who fries potatoes this way, making it sweat, and, personally, I prefer it this way.

2 Tortilla de patatas (aka Tortilla Española) is a spanish symbol for us. We are 45 million spanish people: there are 45 million recipes of it. It is usual that in a house party you can try tortillas from different people in a kind of gentle (...or not) competition.

3 My tip: it is easier to flip if you first scratch the pan after adding the eggs. This way you mix the cooked egg from the bottom with the raw egg in the middle and it gains consistency. The pan should be quite hot at the begining to do this and lower after.

4 Favourite variation: add diced zucchini to the onion. This is a must on my Eastern picnics!!

5 At home, we like to garnish it with anchovies and a salad of roast sweet red peppers.