Spanish
Huevos Rotos (Broken Eggs over Fried Potatoes and Jamon)
Huevos Rotos (Broken Eggs over Fried Potatoes and Jamon) 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
- 4 oz jamon serrano
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Peel the potatoes, cut them into thick fries, and pat them dry.
- Heat the olive oil in a deep skillet over medium heat and fry the potatoes for about 12 minutes, turning occasionally, until deep golden outside and tender inside.
- Lift the fries onto a paper towel lined plate, season with the salt, and pile them onto a warm serving plate.
- In the same pan with a little of the hot oil, fry the eggs sunny side up until the whites are set but the yolks stay runny, about 3 minutes.
- Lay the fried eggs on top of the potatoes, scatter the torn jamon serrano over the top, and break the yolks at the table so they run down over the potatoes and ham.
Serve it with
A Spanish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Huevos Rotos (Broken Eggs over Fried Potatoes and Jamon), 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 Rotos (Broken Eggs over Fried Potatoes and Jamon) 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
- Hearty
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Egg, Vegetables, and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Huevos Rotos (Broken Eggs over Fried Potatoes and Jamon) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on egg, potato, and ham.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from Spain.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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