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# Bocadillo de Tortilla con Pimientos
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-tortilla-con-pimientos/
- Published: 2026-05-17T07:00:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T10:53:14.000Z
- Description: Spanish omelette with roasted peppers (pimientos) in bocadillo.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Spain, Submarine Sandwiches, Bocadillo de Tortilla & Revuelto, #auto-imported

**🇪🇸 Spain** · Family: [Bocadillo de Tortilla & Revuelto](https://onesandwich.com/tag/bocadillo-de-tortilla/) · Heat: Griddled · Bread: barra · Proteins: egg

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Ingredients

baguette · egg · potato · roasted pepper · olive oil · salt

The *Bocadillo de Tortilla con Pimientos* folds roasted peppers into the potato omelette before it sets, so the wedge in the bread carries soft, smoky-sweet *pimientos* alongside the custardy egg. The peppers are the distinguishing move. Roasted and skinned, they bring a gentle sweetness and a little moisture that plays against the starch of the potato, and they tint the interior with streaks of red. It is still a cold, hand-held omelette *bocadillo*, just one with a vegetable doing real flavor work inside it.

The build is the familiar sequence with the peppers prepared as a separate component. Peppers are roasted until the skin blisters, then peeled, seeded, and torn or sliced into strips; skipping the peel is the most common shortcut and it leaves tough papery bits that ruin the texture. Potatoes are cooked slowly in olive oil until tender without hard color. Potato and pepper strips are folded into beaten salted egg, rested so it binds, then set in a hot pan, flipped with a plate, and pulled while the center stays *jugosa*. A wedge goes into a *barra* or rustic roll. Good execution shows distinct ribbons of soft sweet pepper through a loose-centered *tortilla*, with the moisture from the peppers controlled so the wedge still holds a clean cut. Sloppy execution is watery pepper that prevents the egg from setting, unpeeled peppers with leathery skin, or a *tortilla* cooked dry to compensate for the extra liquid.

The biggest variable is which pepper is used. A sweet red roasting pepper gives the mild, candy-like version most people expect; a more characterful regional pepper shifts it toward something earthier or faintly bitter, and cooks choose deliberately. Onion sometimes joins, dragging in the usual onion-or-not argument that follows every Spanish omelette. A *bocadillo* built on fried green frying peppers or piquillo peppers without the omelette is a separate preparation entirely and deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here.

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## More from this family

Other [Bocadillo de Tortilla & Revuelto](https://onesandwich.com/tag/bocadillo-de-tortilla/) sandwiches in Spain:

- [Bocadillo de Huevo Frito con Chorizo](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-huevo-frito-con-chorizo/)
- [Bocadillo de Huevo Frito con Jamón](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-huevo-frito-con-jamon/)
- [Bocadillo de Huevo Frito con Pimientos](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-huevo-frito-con-pimientos/)
- [Bocadillo de Huevo Frito](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-huevo-frito/)
- [Bocadillo de Revuelto de Espárragos](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-revuelto-de-esparragos/)
- [Bocadillo de Revuelto de Gambas](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-revuelto-de-gambas/)
- [Bocadillo de Revuelto de Morcilla](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-revuelto-de-morcilla/)
- [Bocadillo de Revuelto de Setas](https://onesandwich.com/bocadillo-de-revuelto-de-setas/)

[See all Bocadillo de Tortilla & Revuelto sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/bocadillo-de-tortilla/)