Patatas Bravas
Potatoes Budget Recipes Spanish Vegetable Dishes Sauces and Salsa
Crispy fried potatoes drizzled with a delicious spicy tomato sauce. The sauce is also excellent with potato tortilla. And if you're counting calories, you can bake the potatoes instead of frying them.
Ingredients
potatoes
oil for frying
Spicy tomato sauce
500g ripe tomatoes
1 small onion
1 bay leaf
2-3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 teaspoon white wine vinegar
1 level teaspoon sweet paprika
1/4 teaspoon chili powder (or to taste)
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
3-4 garlic cloves
4 tablespoons oil
salt, pepper, a little sugar
How to prepare patatas bravas
- Sauté the onion in a tablespoon of hot oil. When softened, add the peeled tomatoes cut into small pieces (or blended in a food processor). Season with salt and pepper to taste, bay leaf and 1/2 teaspoon of sugar. Cook the tomatoes for 20 minutes. Remove the bay leaf and blend the sauce until it becomes very smooth. Pass the sauce through a fine sieve. Allow to cool completely.
- Crush the garlic cloves in a mortar with some coarse salt until they become a paste. Add the remaining 3 tablespoons of oil in a thin stream, stirring constantly, until you get a garlic mayonnaise.
- Add the garlic mayonnaise, the egg mayonnaise and the rest of the spices (paprika, chili, cumin, vinegar) to the tomato sauce. Mix well and adjust the salt if needed. The sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
- Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes (you can calculate 2 potatoes per person). Boil them in salted water for 10 minutes from when the water starts boiling. Drain and let them sit until the oil is hot.
- Heat plenty of oil very well. Fry the potatoes in this oil until they start to turn golden and become very crispy on the outside.
- Serve the fried potatoes drizzled with tomato sauce.
Spicy tomato sauce
Frying the potatoes
Patatas Bravas
