| Greg's huevos a la tigre |
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This is my version of huevos a la Flamenca, which I originally made on 1 April 2018. It's gradually getting far away enough from the original recipe that it's time for a different name. In particular, the eggs are scrambled rather than fried. This version has evolved from a number of attempts on 14 June 2018, 3 August 2018, 4 January 2020, 24 November 2020, 31 December 2020, 18 January 2022, 17 March 2023 and 17 May 2024.
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Per portion. The photos show a version with slightly fewer ingredients.
| quantity | ingredient | step | ||
| 120 g | potatoes | 1 | ||
| 100 g | onions | 1 | ||
| 15 g | garlic | 1 | ||
| 40 g | chorizo, cooked and sliced | 1 | ||
| oil or fat to fry | 1 | |||
| 50 g | tomatoes | 2 | ||
| 30 g | capsicum | 2 | ||
| 3 g (1) | hot chili, optional | 2 | ||
| 4 g | salt | 2 | ||
| 40 g | peas | 3 | ||
| 2 | eggs | 4 | ||
Steps 1 and 2 can be made in advance, preferably in a large kuali (wok). They can then be frozen, and portions can be thawed and processed through steps 3 and 4.
Peel and dice potatoes, slice onions, finely chop garlic and fry with chorizo in fat until hot.
Cut tomatoes finely. Chop capsicum into strips about 3 cm long. Cut optional chili into thin slices. Add all with salt to mixture and cook. Allow any liquid to reduce. Otherwise the result will be too wet.
Add peas shortly before finished, or after thawing. When done, stir in the eggs and mix well.
Fry for 11 minutes. Serve:
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The big difference from huevos a la Flamenca is the way that the eggs are cooked. Hueves a la flamenca bakes them. I've found baked eggs to be particularly unpleasant, and the process is tedious. I first tried frying them, then cooking them in the microwave oven, then in an “air fryer”. Currently it's more like an omelette, with a nod to menemen.
Somehow there's still something missing, probably spices. On 18 January 2022 I added some garam masala, which didn't really improve it. Afterwards I also increased the salt from 3 g to 7 g, which should be roughly the 2% that I aim for, but that proved to be too much, maybe because of the salt in the sausage. Arguably the correct value would be 5 g, but I'm currently playing it safe with 4 g.
And the quantities of the omelette-like attempt on 17 March 2023 didn't work well. The mixture should be relatively dry before adding the eggs.
A la tigre? That's feminine. But in Spanish tigers are masculine, el tigre. How could I make such a mistake? No, it's not a mistake. A clue: though most words in Romance languages have the same gender regardless of the language, some words are different in Italian: “il flauto”,”, “la tigre”, where in French or Spanish it would be « la flûte/la flauta » or « le tigre/el tigre ».
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