This is a combination of two great Spanish potato dishes: patatas a lo pobre (poor man’s potatoes) and huevos rotos (broken eggs).
Traditionally both fried, here we bake not to be virtuous, it’s just easy. One tray, one mandoline (if you have one, it makes light work of slicing the potatoes and shallots), and you have easily fed a crowd.
Serves 6 | Prep: 10 minutes | Cook: 1 hour 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1kg Yukon Gold, Maris Piper (or other floury) potatoes, unpeeled and thinly sliced
- 2 red peppers, deseeded and thinly sliced (300g)
- 4 oregano sprigs
- 3 large banana shallots, thinly sliced (200g)
- 1 head of garlic, top 1cm removed
- 1 tsp sweet smoked paprika
- 150ml olive oil
- 6 eggs
- fine sea salt and black pepper
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 190°C fan.
- Put everything apart from the eggs on a large baking tray (about 28cm x 40cm x 4cm), along with 1¼ teaspoons of salt and plenty of pepper. Mix together well and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven, turn everything over and bake for another 30 minutes (turning the vegetables over again halfway through), until the potatoes are soft and jammy and the peppers and shallots are frazzled. Remove from the oven, squeeze the garlic cloves out of their skins and fold them through.
- Crack the eggs into a jug, season with a pinch of salt and some pepper, then lightly break with a fork: just enough to burst the yolks. Create a few small pockets in the potato mixture, then pour in the eggs. Return to the oven for 5 minutes, or until the eggs are just cooked through.
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