Spanish potato tortilla

  • Vegetarian
  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for lunch
  • Good for dinner

Less suited for breakfast, as a snack.

A thick Spanish omelette of potatoes, onion and eggs, cooked on both sides. Four servings without a side.

4 servingsFinal yield 950 g

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Ingredients

  • 600 gPOTATO, PEELED
  • 150 gONION
  • 330 gEGG WITHOUT SHELL
  • 12.5 gOLIVE OIL
  • 3 gSALT, AVERAGE

Method

  1. Slice the potatoes and onion thinly. Whisk the eggs with salt in a large bowl.
  2. Heat 25 g of oil in a non-stick pan, add the potatoes and onion and cook gently covered until tender.
  3. Mix the potatoes and onion with the eggs, return to the pan and cook gently until the edges set.
  4. Turn the tortilla over using a plate and finish cooking the other side.

Recipe tradition

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
1,049.6 kcal
Protein
54.8 g
Fat
43.8 g
Carbohydrate
101.2 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
118.2 g
Fibre (Fineli)
8.6 g
Saturated fatty acids
9.9 g
Sodium
1,536.9 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
3.8 g

Per serving

Energy
262.4 kcal
Protein
13.7 g
Fat
11 g
Carbohydrate
25.3 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
29.5 g
Fibre (Fineli)
2.1 g
Saturated fatty acids
2.5 g
Sodium
384.2 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.96 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
110.5 kcal
Protein
5.8 g
Fat
4.6 g
Carbohydrate
10.7 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
12.4 g
Fibre (Fineli)
0.9 g
Saturated fatty acids
1 g
Sodium
161.8 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.4 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • Some ingredient quantities use documented estimates or household-measure assumptions.
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Egg

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • THL Fineli (20.0) · Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL), Fineli · CC BY 4.0