Recipe: Perfect Vegan Tortilla De Patatas (Spanish Omelette)

Vegan Tortilla De Patatas (Spanish Omelette). Tortilla (or Spanish Omelette) has always been one of my favorite dishes, since I was a child. It's a typical Spanish recipe, probably one of the most famous in our country. We call it "tortilla de patatas" (potato omelette in English) and it's made of eggs, potatoes, olive oil and salt, and some people add onion too.

In my pre-vegan days, Spanish Tortilla was a favourite comfort food of mine, but I love this vegan version even more. This is the recipe for our Vegan Spanish Potato Omelette - Vegan Tortilla de Patatas. Tortilla de patatas is a traditional and very special dish from Spain, the country where I am from. You can have Vegan Tortilla De Patatas (Spanish Omelette) using 7 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Vegan Tortilla De Patatas (Spanish Omelette)

1. It's 2 of large sweet potato.
2. You need 2 teaspoons of salt and pepper.
3. Prepare 350 ml of gram flour.
4. It's 3 of large white onions.
5. It's 2 tbs of olive oil.
6. You need 350 ml of water.
7. Prepare 1 of small courgette (grated).

From Wikipedia: "Spanish omelette is the English name for a traditional dish from Spanish cuisine called tortilla española or tortilla de patatas. It is an omelette made with eggs and potatoes, sometimes also with onion and/or chives or garlic; fried in oil and often served cold as an appetizer. This vegan spanish omelette is loaded with potatoes and is gluten free! It is a great plant based breakfast, lunch or dinner and you do not need to use no oil!

Vegan Tortilla De Patatas (Spanish Omelette) instructions

1. Peel the potatoes and cut them in ~1cm cubes.
2. Peel and finely slice the onion. Drizzle 2 tbs olive oil into a small frying pan over medium heat, then add the onion, cover and cook for 30 min, or until the onion are turning golden..
3. Pour 3 tbsp of olive oil in a big, tall, nonstick frying pan (better with vertical sides as it will be quite tall)..
4. Throw in the potatoes and add the salt..
5. Fry the potato on medium-low heat, until the potatoes are tender and slightly golden brown (lower fire if they start getting more brown, the most important is the tenderness)..
6. Whisk the chickpea flour with water in a big bowl..
7. Add the fried potatoes, courgette and onion to the chickpea mix in the big bowl and mix it well. Now it's the last chance to nail the salt levels so I recommend you to taste it and add more salt if needed. You can even add a touch of black pepper, if you want ;).
8. Clean the frying pan from the remnants of onion/potatoes with kitchen paper (it will get burnt if not done). Pour the remaining oil in it and wait for it to get warm. If your frying pan is nonstick you can reduce the amount of oil, but it will help on cooking the borders of the omelette better and faster (which is crucial to flip it without problems!).The ideal temperature of the oil is when splashing a drop off the mix it gets cooked almost instantly..
9. Pour the mixture to the frying pan, levelling it well. If the oil was at the right temperature the borders will start to cook right away..
10. Cook for 4 minutes and after transfer to preheat oven for about 25 min..
11. To see if the omelette is cooked, take a toothpick and insert it in the middle, down to the bottom. Then take it back slowly. If the toothpick is dry, the omelette is cooked. If not, cook for another 5 min in oven..
12. After it's cooked, you can serve the omelette in round plate around the same size and remove the excess of oil from it with kitchen paper. I recommend it to be served at room temperature rather than hot, and for an even better touch leave it in the fridge for some hours and take it out 30 min before serving... I'm always told that it tastes even better the next day!.

Peel potatoes, onion and zucchini and cut into bite sized pieces. Chop the onion and cut the zucchini into bite sized pieces. In a good frying pan, heat the olive oil at medium heat. Tortilla de Patatas or Spanish frittata is a traditional tapa from Spain. Perfect for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and Passover too!

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