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Tortilla de patatas – pre-boiled potato version

Tortilla de patatas – pre-boiled potato version.

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45 minDifficulty: medium
Tortilla de patatas – pre-boiled potato version – serving illustration

Servings in this printout: 4

Ingredients

Servings4
  • 600 g raw peeled potato
  • 55 g peeled onion
  • 330 g egg without shell
  • 67.5 g olive oil
  • 0.5 g ground black pepper
  • 1,000 g water for the stated cooking method
  • salt to taste

Method

  1. Boil 600 g raw peeled potato in 1000 g water until cooked, then drain. No unmeasured leaching loss is deducted from the raw-potato macros.
  2. Soften 55 g onion in 67.5 g olive oil. Add the cooked potato, 330 g egg without shell and 0.5 g ground black pepper.
  3. Cook just until the egg is fully set; do not cook the potatoes for a long time in oil. Divide all food and oil into four portions. This is the pre-boiled potato version.

Nutrition per serving

Nutrition values are approximate estimates, not laboratory analyses. Products and portion size affect the result.

Net carbs
24.21 g
Total carbohydrates (incl. fibre and polyols)
26.5 g
Protein
13.41 g
Fat
24.69 g
Modeled GL estimate
about 16 / serving

medium GL

Confidence · Low Some values or assumptions in the calculation are uncertain.

The estimate combines ingredient carbohydrate and GI data with modeled assumptions. The calculation also uses comparison values from similar foods or food groups.

Estimate details and sources ↗

How was the estimate calculated?

The serving’s GL is calculated from ingredient data. Confidence describes the evidence behind the calculation. Your blood sugar response may vary.

  • Comparison value
  • Value used in the model

All available carbohydrate is included, with no small portions omitted. This is a modeled ingredient estimate, not a measured meal response. Biological uncertainty has not been quantified.

Research sources and technical details

Source names and technical notes appear in their original form.

Carbohydrate data sources

GI and calculation sources

  • Potato, unspecified variety, boiled · GK80 HUMAN_GI: Named human food/preparation comparator applied as explicit LOW analogy. Not measured meal GI or a biological uncertainty bound; SEM/SD not a recipe range.. Recipe-specific applicability: Explicit POTATO food ID F205 in the named cooking version; named human food/preparation comparator used as LOW ingredient analogy; no measured meal response. (Low)ANALOG · HUMAN_GI · FOOD_ANALOGUE
  • Published assignment for low-carbohydrate vegetables, not measured food GI · GK80 PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION: Coding estimate only. Application to named fresh herbs, sprouts and alliums is an explicit project interpretation. It does not establish a physiological maximum or a one-unit uncertainty bound. Not a default for seed spices, flour, sauces or stock.. Recipe-specific applicability: Explicit NONSTARCHY_VEGETABLE food ID F335 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. (Low)CALCULATION_POLICY · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION
  • Named foods with <=5 g available CHO/100 g · GK80 PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION: Published low-carbohydrate default50, applied only to reviewed named compositions <=5 g available CHO/100g. This cutoff is a project rule, not a validated scientific threshold. Explicit AFCD commercial soy sauce and AFCD tahini plus complete Maille Dijon label are allowed, not all brands or pastes. No flour/sugar/honey/syrup or composition-unknown food.. Recipe-specific applicability: Explicit EGG food ID F858 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. (Low)CALCULATION_POLICY · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION
  • Fixed weighed culinary ground spice, seed or vanilla extract · GK80 PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION: Own project extension of coding default, not measured food GI or directly published Schakel scope. Full composition and consumed grams mandatory; <=0.5 g CHO each and <=1 g aggregate per serving. Includes named vanilla extract, dried herbs and whole seed garnish. Excludes flour, baking powder, bulk paste, sugar, unknown extraction and sticks/pods. No biological error bound. USDA total-carbohydrate minus fibre is a disclosed available-CHO proxy; endogenous polyols unquantified, not asserted zero. This additional proxy use awaits owner method approval.. Recipe-specific applicability: Explicit GROUND_SPICE food ID A006618 in the named cooking version; published GI coding/project scope extension, not measured ingredient GI. (Low)CALCULATION_POLICY · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION · PUBLISHED_IMPUTATION

Notes

The GL is a modeled ingredient-sum estimate with low confidence, not a measured meal response. All available carbohydrate is included. No biological uncertainty interval is known. The photograph illustrates serving; unlisted side dishes are excluded from the nutrition and GL estimates. All listed edible ingredients, sauce and fat are consumed. Handle cooking water as instructed; no unmeasured cooking or leaching losses are deducted.

The GI 66 analogy is for pre-boiled potato, not prolonged oil cooking. This recipe ID is separate from the previously published Tortilla española breakfast recipe.