Spanish
Huevos Fritos con Patatas (Fried Eggs with Potatoes)
Huevos Fritos con Patatas (Fried Eggs with Potatoes) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb potatoes
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Peel the potatoes and cut them into thin sticks or wedges, then pat them dry with a kitchen towel.
- Heat the olive oil in a wide skillet over medium heat and fry the potatoes in a single layer, turning occasionally, for about 12 minutes until golden outside and tender inside.
- Lift the potatoes out with a slotted spoon onto a paper towel lined plate, season with half the salt, and keep them warm.
- Pour off all but a couple tablespoons of the hot oil, crack in the eggs, and fry until the whites are fully set but the yolks are still runny, spooning a little hot oil over the whites as they cook.
- Season the eggs with the remaining salt and serve them straight from the pan over the potatoes so the yolk breaks and runs into them.
Serve it with
A Spanish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Huevos Fritos con Patatas (Fried Eggs with Potatoes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Huevos Fritos con Patatas (Fried Eggs with Potatoes) carries eggs. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Egg and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Huevos Fritos con Patatas (Fried Eggs with Potatoes) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
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From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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