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How To Make Patatas A Lo Pobre

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How To Make Patatas A Lo Pobre
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Patatas A Lo Pobre recipe. This traditional Spanish recipe, meaning 'poor man's potatoes' makes a wonderful alternative to the usual potatoes you might serve with your meal. Enlarge Patatas A Lo Pobre recipe. This traditional Spanish recipe, meaning 'poor man's potatoes' makes a wonderful alternative to the usual potatoes you might serve with your meal.
Serves:
4 to 6
Preparation Time:
10 minutes
Cooking Time:
20 minutes
Total Time:
30 minutes

Step 1: You will need:

  • 500 g potatoes, peeled and sliced into pieces 1cm thick
  • 300 ml olive oil
  • ½ red pepper, diced
  • 3 cloves of garlic, chopped
  • 2 tbsp of parsley, chopped
  • some salt and pepper
  • 1 frying pan
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • 1 sieve
  • 1 bowl

Step 2: Cook the potatoes

Put the potatoes into the frying pan. Add the olive oil and let it heat up. Cook for roughly 15 minutes until the potatoes are tender. Once cooked, strain them into the sieve, with a bowl below to catch the oil and set aside.

Step 3: Finish the potatoes

Pour in a little of the oil from the potatoes into the frying pan. Add the red peppers and let them sweat for a couple of minutes. Add the garlic and stir it in. Sweat the garlic for a minute or two. Return the cooked potatoes to the pan and season with salt and pepper. Toss the pan or shake it to mix everything together. Add the parsley and shake or toss the pan, once more, to combine all the ingredients.

Step 4: Serve

Dish up while still hot. It makes a perfect side dish for anything that goes well with potatoes.
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Tips & Comments
  1. intercook

    This is pretty much like an Afghan traditional dish....I've a doubt about being it a spanish dish.. :<

  2. aidanjhill

    Regardless if its the right or not, it was very good, added chopped onions to it.

  3. Anonymous

    I do it with green peppers instead of red, and onion instead of garlic. And at the end of the process you have to add 2 or 3 eggs, it tastes way better that way, try it. By the way, i'm from Caceres, Spain.

  4. erbie

    the recipe comes from andalucia (which is where i'm from) and NO this is NOT the correct recipe! the potatoes peppers and onion with some garlic are sliced and layered in an oven dish, then filled up with olive oil and slow baked for about 2 hours, the top becomes crunchy. there is also a smilar recipe in Granada but they put morcilla or chorizo in aswell. hope this will help you create this dish authentically!

  5. debbie64

    i am half spanish and this is not the recipe for patatas a lo pobre the original recipe is so much better

  6. Anonymous

    that´s how my mom makes them.......and i´m from malaga.

  7. Anonymous

    I'm spanish, and you're not doing it right... this is not the recipie for patatas a lo pobre.