{"id":880,"date":"2016-03-11T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riu.com\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2024-04-25T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:23:01","slug":"tortilla-espanola-hit-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riu.com\/blog\/en\/tortilla-espanola-hit-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortilla espa\u00f1ola: a hit anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

The truth is that Spanish cooking<\/strong> is so good it is difficult to pick out one star dish, but there is one that is very typical, very Spanish and very much ours: potato omelette<\/strong>. Juan Berm\u00fadez Atienza, our chef<\/strong> from the hotel Riu Arecas<\/strong><\/a> tells us how to prepare this delicious dish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Chef<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a dish you can never go wrong with \u2013 everyone loves it! Sure you must have eaten it a zillion times, but we\u2019ve got an inkling that you may not know its real origin<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

\"Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n

Legend has it that this treat came from Navarre in Spain<\/strong><\/a>. General Tom\u00e1s de Zumalac\u00e1rregui<\/strong> is said to have whipped the first one up during the First Carlist War, in the quest for some cheap but nutritious nosh to feed his troops<\/strong>. According to another story, it was not actually him who invented it, but a nameless housekeeper who let the General try a mouthful. She was so poor she only had eggs, potatoes and onion<\/strong> to scramble together, a concoction that went down so well with the General and was a hit with his troops.<\/p>\n

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\"spanish<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that we have told you how and when one of Spain\u2019s most renowned recipes came about, we\u2019re going to tell you the traditional recipe. You are going to need:<\/p>\n