Spanish Omelette

In our household for dinner we have a fair few regular meals that we do; the type where we don't need recipes and tend to always have the ingredients in the cupboard. In order to bring a little excitement to our meals OH and I decided to try and cook at least one new recipe a week...particularly since I have a collection of about 20 fantastic vegan cookbooks that seem to only get opened to make sweet things or bypassed for a google search for a specific dish. OH has been saying for a while that he would like to cook for a change and not make ratatouille/bolognaise (which are his 2 specialities and the only difference is the veggie mince added for the bolognaise!) so he looked through "Vegan With A Vengeance" and chose Spanish Omelette. We are not massive tofu eaters (I know, I know...a vegan who doesn't eat much tofu!) so  didn't have the ingredients in right away so postponed it for a few days. By this point OH decided maybe I should make it after all! As I love cooking, this was not a bad thing for me but with a newborn on the way cooking duties may change hands..I am anticipating a lot of ratatouille (which I love by the way)!

Anyway back to the omelette. I did make a few changes 1) I used 1tsp Vegg powder and 1/4 cup of water instead of the saffron & soya milk mixture as I had this in and thought it would provide the colour and an egg-like taste 2) I used a firm tofu instead of "soft"- I wan't sure if this meant silken or not in the recipe and there was only one type of tofu in the shop we went to 3) I think I cut up the potatoes smaller than the recipe- not for any reason, just being distracted! 4) I added some dried herbs (de Provence I think) to the mix. Other than this I followed the recipe.

The results were very good. When I had the first taste I was worried that OH wouldn't like it as I could tell it was tofu and if we are having something called omelette I think he wants it to taste like actual omelette. Perhaps it did- it has been so long since I had one I have no idea! But he LOVED it! We ate what was meant for 3-4 people for dinner (the remainder was meant to be for his lunch the next day but he insisted on second helpings). The texture looked and,  from what I remember felt, really like a real Spanish Omelette and OH described it as "really comforting" which I agree with- it makes a good warming comfort food for dinner.

A couple of things I would mention is I would have quite liked a vegetable in it (other than potato & onion)- maybe tomato or peas , so next time (yes we will definitely be making it again) I will try it with these. We ate it with green beans on the side to get some veg in the meal but I like to have more than one portion for my meals plus I think it would add a lovely colour through it. Another thing is that although it is really easy and not labour intensive you do need to plan a bit as it takes about 1hr45 from beginning to end so not the best if you are hungry before you start!

Other than that I would really recommend it. Bound to be a hit all round!!

One note of caution!: Careful of the pan handle after it comes out of the oven! With my baby brain I kept forgetting it had come out of the oven and kept touching the handle..luckily no damage done- I could just imagine myself dropping the whole thing on the floor!