Spanish Tortilla

After over a month of being home from Spain I figured it was time for my family to try some Spanish cuisine. Naturally this meant that they needed to have a spanish tortilla, which is much more of a potato omelet than the mexican tortilla you may be thinking of.

The recipe is actually quite simple: 6-7 medium potatoes, 1 onion, 5-6 large eggs, 2-3 cups of olive oil, and salt. We cut the potatoes and onions and cooked them in the olive oil. Then we mixed them in with the beaten eggs and put them in a frying pan. Up to this point it was rather easy, when it came time to flip it we struggled a bit. You are supposed to put a plate upside down over the pan and then flip the tortilla onto the plate and then slide it back onto the pan. This sounded easy enough except that our plates are really quite heavy and the pan wasn't light either. Between me and my mom we managed to do it though, and it turned out looking just like the ones I had eaten in Spain.

It tasted like the ones from Spain too. Everyone loved it, with the exception of Emily, who said that she doesn't like food from other countries. I'm hoping this attitude will change soon.