Hi guys,... as you asked during the leaving party for the recipes of cheese and smoked salmon pasta and for the Spanish stuffed omelet, and although you liked them, probably just because of the alcohol,... I am going to write the first recipe,... I promise you that next time i cook an omelet (this week i suppose), i will take photos and i will update the post.
Stuffed Spanish omelet.
Ingredients (for 4 people):
- 6 Eggs (maybe more, it depends on the size of the potatoes)
- 1/2-1Onnion
- 5 Potatoes (as before, it depends on the size of them (we will sort this out later))
- Salt
- Olive Oil
- Things to put inside the omelet: ham, cheese (Advanced cooks)
- a very good nonsticky frying pan (so so so important).
Preparation
First of all, we have to cut the potatoes in small slices (some people cut them on cubes,...), the important thing is that they have to be the same size to avoid some parts being more cooked than the others. We chop the onion in small pieces and mix them with the potatoes. At this stage we can add some salt.
Now we have to fry the potatoes and onion mixture. to do that we are not going to use our awesome frying pan (because if we do,... we are going to get the omelet sticked). Instead of this, we can use another frying pan or sauce pan to fry the potatoes (always using olive oil). I actually use an interesting way to fry this using the microwave. To do this, we will put the potatoes in a big bowl, and we will add olive oil in the top. We will put that into the microwave checking it each 10' and mixing it until it gets fried.
Once fried, remove the remaining olive oil (not too much or none if using the microwave method), beat the eggs in another recipient and mix the beaten eggs into the fried potatoes. Put as many eggs as necessary. Fried potatoes have to be like "swimming a bit" in the eggs,... It is better to put more eggs than necessary rather than put less.
Add salt to the mix.
Prepare your magical Mithril nonsticky frying pan, which was made by the Dwarves of Erebor in the old ages, causing the envy of Smaug being the main reason for him to attack the lonely? (i dont know the name of the mountain in English) mountain.
Use a soft-fire, and add a jet of olive oil (not to much) and be assured that the oil covers all the frying pan.
A (NON-STUFFED VERSION)- put the potato-egg mixture into the frying pan, covering all the sauce pan. use a fork to get a flat shape (this means no mountains)
B (STUFFED VERSION)- put the half of potato-egg mixture into the frying pan, covering all the sauce pan. use a fork to get a flat shape (this means no mountains). put the ham and the cheese on the top, and cover it with the other half of the omelet.
Check the omelet, and move the pan to avoid it to get sticky,... when you think that the below part of the omelet has been cooked (3-5' with soft fire) (and here "below part" means a little layer of the omelet, the first 5% of the thickness of the omelet),... it high time to turn the omelet over!!!
...Circus music being played...
choose a big flat plate and put it over the omelet as if it were a cap of the frying pan. The best size for that plate is the one that covers almost the whole frying pan and allows you to put it touching the omelet.
put your left hand on the plate, and handle the frying pan with the right hand (only 4 right handed people), turn the frying pan over. now, you should have the plate with the omelet in your left hand, and the pan in the right one as a cap. Remove carefully the frying pan (be careful, don't spill the remaining oil into yourself), remove any sticky things in the omelet, put more oil if necessary (if you have a lot of sticky stuff add more oil to avoid that), and slide the omelet back on the frying pan.
Repeat the operation until the omelet is cooked.
Note:
It is impossible to have a good omelet the first times (remember my omelets during the first caving trips,... they were horrible). And it is also impossible to do a good omelet with a crap frying pan.
May the force be with you, my young padawans.
