The jury of Spanish Potato Tortilla Championshipone of the oldest gastronomic contests in the country, has awarded the first prize of its XVI edition to the Cañadío restaurant, in Santander.
In the final of the contest, held at the congress Alicante Gastronomic, fifteen chefs from eight Autonomous Communities participated, among whom were real heavyweights in the potato omelet. Canadío, in fact, not only produces one of the best-known tortillas in Cantabria but also in Madrid, where the group has several stores.
Your head chef, Pedro José Román, He took the jury prize with an omelet made with poached onion, blended egg, monalisa potato and arbequina oil.
A Coruña and Logroño, second and third prize
In second place were Isabel Gesto and Ramón Rodríguez, from the O Cabo restaurant, in A Coruña. And the third prize went to the chef Carlos Olabuenaga from the Tizona restaurant, in Logroño, who last year had won the first ex-Aqueo prize along with the Meson O Pote from Betanzos, A Coruña.
The contest, which has been in its sixteenth edition, has very simple rules: the chefs have 75 minutes to make their tortillas in front of the jury using the ingredients that characterize their respective recipes with a single (and logical) requirement: that the dishes contain eggs and potatoes.
Tomorrow, October 2, also in Alicante, the I Spanish Omelet Championship with Potatoes…, new to this edition, in which cooks can use all types of ingredients.
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