what's the difference between spanish omelette and tortilla?

[deaconblue]

Tonight I've made for dinner what I call Spanish omelette. I've fried chorizo, added sliced cooked new potatoes and chargrilled peppers, poured egg on top and bunged it under the grill to cook all the way through. So am I having spanish omelette for dinner tonight or is it tortilla?

'Tortilla' is Spanish for 'omelette'. In South America, it can mean the fjaits style wraps.

So, you're in fact having both.

Sounds yum.

fajita

I think of tortillas as deeper than an omelette....tart-like rather than omeletty (that may be just me though).

A tortilla is deeper than an omelettey-omelette, that's true. But a Spanish omelette is a tortilla.

I think of a Spanish omelette as being thick unlike a normal omlette! So they're the same (tortilla and spanish omlette)

ah now I was wondering if a spanish omelette was just potatoes and egg and if you added extra ingredients it became a tortilla?

Tortilla is middle class and omelette is working class

:)

Nope, it's just Spanish for omelette.

Seriously though, it is Spanish for little tart so an omelette fits the definition too.

I think little cake, actually :) Deffo not middle class in Spain.

Now. Can we talk about the pronunciation of 'chorizo'? I had a French-Canadian-Portuguese friend who had to do pretend castanets to say chorizo in a Spanish rather than Portuguese stylee many years ago. Top tip: there is no t in it.

I didn't know that! In fact, the 'tortilla's' I remember eating in Spain were anything but small :-)

cho-reeetho

choreetho!

Very good both, are you doing castanets at the same time I personally say cho-riso having done most of my Spanish in Mexico but I'll take anything without a t in it of course :)

Tortilla is omelette. A true Spanish Omelette is waxy potatoes, onions and eggs, still slightly runny in the middle and when done properly is utterly divine. When not it's a rank pile of shit

Chorizo is pronounced choritho the letter z is a th sound in Catalan like Ibiza among others.

I have lived in Spain for the past 7 years and while the correct pronounciation for z in any word is the 'th' sound, a lot of people (at least here in the south) simply say chorizo with the z as in zoo, not choritso that so many think it is.

And little cake is actually tortita (torta for cake). When they want to define something as smaller it will have ita or ito on the end - momento/momentito

And here endeth the Spanish lesson..