Spanish omelette Spanish omelette Spanish omelette is the English name for a traditional dish from Spanish cuisine called tortilla española, tortilla de patatas or tortilla de papas. It is an omelette made with eggs and potatoes, sometimes also with onion and/or chives or garlic; fried in oil and often served cold as an appetizer. It is part of the cuisine of Spain. In Spanish "tortilla" is the diminutive form of "torta", cake; this dish is called "tortilla de patatas" or "tortilla española" to distinguish it from a plain omelette ("tortilla francesa", literally ""French omelette""). These dishes are unrelated to the maize or
Omelette and thought it was a culinary delight. He then ordered the townspeople to gather all the eggs in the village and to prepare a huge omelette for his army the next day. On March 19, 1994, the largest omelette () in the world at the time was made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan, but was subsequently overtaken by another, weighing , made by the Canadian Lung Association at the Brockville Memorial Centre in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, on May 11, 2002. In turn, that record was surpassed on August 11, 2012, by an omelette cooked by the Ferreira do Zêzere