How many calories in a Spanish omelette
A slice of Spanish omelette has 250 kcal, with 8 g of protein.
Portion
To burn it off
Tortilla de patatas is eggs and potatoes slowly cooked in a lot of olive oil, sometimes with onion. The oil is where most of the calories come from.
A proper slice is 250 kcal and the little pincho on a bar counter is 170. Stuffed into a baguette as a bocadillo, it's 520.
Whether onion goes in is the most heated argument in Spain. It doesn't change the number much, so pick your side freely.
Tips
- 1Order the pincho with a salad rather than the bocadillo.
- 2At home, drain the potatoes well after frying, so less oil ends up in the pan.
Where it comes from
Potatoes reached Spain from the Americas in the 1500s, but the oldest known written mention of potato tortilla is from 1817 in Navarre. It appears in an anonymous letter to the Cortes of Navarre about poor farmers, describing how a few eggs and potatoes made two or three tortillas to feed a family. Popular stories that a general invented it are legends.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Noticias de Navarra, Una tortilla dorada con receta navarra
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Questions
What is a Spanish omelette?
Tortilla de patatas: a thick omelette of eggs and potatoes cooked in olive oil, served in slices.
How many calories in a tortilla bocadillo?
About 520 kcal for a slice in a baguette.
Does onion change the calories?
Hardly. The olive oil matters far more than the onion.
Is a Spanish omelette eaten warm or cold?
Both. Bars in Spain serve it warm, at room temperature or cold from the fridge, and the number doesn't change, a slice is 250 kcal any way you eat it.
How many calories in a whole Spanish omelette?
A home tortilla made with six eggs usually cuts into about six slices, so the whole thing is roughly 1,500 kcal. Most of that is the olive oil from frying the potatoes.
