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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Patatas Bravas - Bookmarked Recipes

This is a recipe for the Bookmarked Recipe Challenge hosted by Jac at Tinned Tomatoes and originally devised by Ruth from Ruth's Kitchen Experiments.  


This is the bookmarked recipe, I am an inveterate collector of recipes,  I have four A4 folders full of pages from magazines, many of which I haven't made yet!  Every now and then I have a cull and throw out some that have been there too long without having been tried.  I just don't want to fill any more folders, but there is a plastic wallet stuffed with even more cuttings, so I think it is time for another cull!

Tapas is incredibly popular all of a sudden, I was in Tesco today and saw a readymade tortilla - eek, why would you buy a potato omelette, cold and shrink-wrapped from a supermarket shelf when you could make it yourself for a fraction of the cost and I'll bet it would be five times as tasty!

Enough of my ranting and on to the recipe for Patatas Bravas.  This recipe comes from the BBC Good Food Magazine, but when I looked online, this one didn't seem to feature and I fiddled about a bit with it, as per usual.  I liked how Patatas Bravas was described:

"This dish sounds so Spanish, but it's simply fried potatoes with a spicy tomato sauce and who doesn't like that?"

Patatas Bravas
vegetable oil for cooking
1.5kg/3lb 5oz potatoes,  cut into cubes
1 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
pinch of chilli flakes
1/4 - 1/2 tsp Pimenton, hot smoked paprika
100ml/3 and a half fl oz white wine
400g can chopped tomatoes
couple of spigs of thyme

Preheat the oven to 200C/400F
1.  Put the chopped potato into a roasting tin and cover generously with oil.   Roast the potato cubes for approx 20 minutes until soft inside and crispy brown on top.  When cooked remove and drain on kitchen paper, keep the potatoes warm.
2. Meanwhile, in another pan, heat the olive oil and cook the onion, garlic and chilli for 7 mins or until softened.  Sprinkle over the paprika, cook for a moment, then pour in th wine, tomatoes and thyme.  Bring to the boil, then simmer for 15 mins. 
3. To serve, season, pile potatoes onto a platter, then pour over the sauce.

The sauce  

The potatoes
Patatas Bravas
I was slightly over generous with the Pimenton (smoked paprika) so it was pretty hot but not unbearably so and actually completely delicious.  I had some left overs so reheated it in a frying pan added a beaten egg and made it into an omelette or 'tortilla' as they like to call it in Spain and Tescos, of course!

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posted by Janice @ 20:45

11 Comments:

At 25 August 2011 at 21:03 , Blogger Jacqueline Meldrum said...

Yay, another entry and I do love this dish. Spicy potatoes, yum!

 
At 26 August 2011 at 06:26 , Blogger Unknown said...

This looks so, so good!! I love patatas bravas so am glad your version has the sauce on top! I have seen a lot lately with no sauce at all & wonder how it can still be patatas bravas? Anyway, thanks for sharing!! :)

 
At 26 August 2011 at 16:30 , Blogger Karen S Booth said...

I LOVE tapas and your Patatas Bravas look great!
Karen

 
At 26 August 2011 at 17:35 , Blogger Chele said...

Patatas Bravas are my all time fave tapas, never thought o fmaking them at home ... if I end up the size of a house I'm hunting you down ;0)

 
At 26 August 2011 at 18:12 , Blogger Traceyr said...

They do look delicious Janice and I bet even I could make them! What did you have with it?

:)

 
At 27 August 2011 at 12:00 , Anonymous Selina said...

This looks so tasty! This is one of my fave spanish dishes, with some gambas pil pil... and bread to soak up that sauce!

 
At 27 August 2011 at 16:49 , Anonymous Corina said...

I love patatas bravas. I sometimes serve them with chorizo for a Spanish style sausage and chips!

 
At 28 August 2011 at 17:06 , Blogger girls who like to gorge said...

This looks lovely! I love spanish cooking - especially during the summer months! xx

 
At 28 August 2011 at 18:31 , Blogger Abitofafoodie said...

This is my favourite tapas dish - so tasty and yet simple at the same time. Am now craving tapas!

 
At 29 August 2011 at 12:59 , Blogger Johanna GGG said...

I have never made patatas bravas but I want to - these look so delicious and you have answered my question about whether you get spicy smoked paprika - I used sweet smoked paprika a lot - must look out some different types

 
At 1 September 2011 at 13:32 , Blogger Ketelbinkje said...

It's a spanish dish;-)

Smoked paprika (Pimentón ahumado) comes from the region of La Vera in Spain. This is the real deal. The hot smoked paprika can do without the chilly flakes.

 

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