Ingredients

Per portion. The photos show a version with slightly fewer ingredients.

quantity		ingredient		step
120 g		potatoes		1
100 g		onions		1
15 g		garlic		1
40 g		chorizo, cooked and sliced		1
		oil or fat to fry		1
50 g		tomatoes		2
30 g		capsicum		2
3 g (1)		hot chili, optional		2
4 g		salt		2
40 g		peas		3
2		eggs		4

Preparation

Steps 1 and 2 can be made in advance, preferably in a large kuali (wok). They can then be frozen, and portions can be thawed and processed through steps 3 and 4.

1. Peel and dice potatoes, slice onions, finely chop garlic and fry with chorizo in fat until hot.

2. Cut tomatoes finely. Chop capsicum into strips about 3 cm long. Cut optional chili into thin slices. Add all with salt to mixture and cook. Allow any liquid to reduce. Otherwise the result will be too wet.

3. Add peas shortly before finished, or after thawing. When done, stir in the eggs and mix well.

4. Fry for 11 minutes. Serve:

    

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Discussion

The big difference from huevos a la Flamenca is the way that the eggs are cooked. Hueves a la flamenca bakes them. I've found baked eggs to be particularly unpleasant, and the process is tedious. I first tried frying them, then cooking them in the microwave oven, then in an “air fryer”. Currently it's more like an omelette, with a nod to menemen.

Somehow there's still something missing, probably spices. On 18 January 2022 I added some garam masala, which didn't really improve it. Afterwards I also increased the salt from 3 g to 7 g, which should be roughly the 2% that I aim for, but that proved to be too much, maybe because of the salt in the sausage. Arguably the correct value would be 5 g, but I'm currently playing it safe with 4 g.

And the quantities of the omelette-like attempt on 17 March 2023 didn't work well. The mixture should be relatively dry before adding the eggs.

Grammar

A la tigre? That's feminine. But in Spanish tigers are masculine, el tigre. How could I make such a mistake? No, it's not a mistake. A clue: though most words in Romance languages have the same gender regardless of the language, some words are different in Italian: “il flauto”,”, “la tigre”, where in French or Spanish it would be « la flûte/la flauta » or « le tigre/el tigre ».