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August is the hottest month in Spain. At home, we are used to having cold okroshka or beetroot soup to save us from the heat, while the Spaniards have salmorejo soup instead. It is similar to gazpacho cream soup, but with a more interesting taste. By the way, tomatoes on the Iberian Peninsula came from the Latin American colonies. Olive oil...
Unusual combinations of tastes are typical for summer Spanish cuisine. For example, jamon is often eaten with melon or pineapple slices. This salad is a fish variation of a famous snack. And today we will prepare an original salad with you to surprise friends and family. Tuna meat has a rich nutritional composition, including Omega-3, proteins, vitamins and minerals, everything a...
Today we got whole two recipes of classical salads straight for a Spanish feast. Ensalada mixta which includes: ½ bunches of lettuce leaves 1 tomato 1 grated carrots Half of a red onion 1 egg 1 tinned tuna Iberica 2 tablespoons of sweet corn 8 olives Iberica with anchovies 2 tablespoons of the olive oil Extra Virgin Iberica 1 tablespoon of wine vinegar Iberica Salt to taste Cut all this in...
Have you ever tried to dress oranges in olive oil? Well, in Spain even that is possible! Today we will get you acquainted with an original dish ensalada hurdana in which sweet oranges perfectly get on with a sour lemon, a spicy chorizo sausage and fragrant olive oil. Traditionally this salad is cooked on Sacred Thursday before Easter and on holidays....
Classic cold Empedrat salad - the champion of Spanish cuisine on the content of proteins and vitamins. Beans component of the lower layer resembles small pebbles, which in the old paved streets. Hence the name empedrat, which means "paved". In different parts of Catalonia instead of beans can put chickpeas, add pickles, but basically unchanged recipe. We need the following ingredients: 500 grams...
Fans of Spanish cuisine, such as we are, can not avoid the attention a traditional cold soup gazpacho. In Malaga there is a similar ajoblanco soup, salmorejo cooked in Cordoba, in each country outside Spain, gazpacho is also prepared in its own way. However, the original recipe belongs to the Andalusian cuisine, it today and we will do. We will need:...
Maymones is a traditional dish, popular in Andalusia, especially in Granada, but its variations are spread throughout Spain, and now we can easily prepare it at home. Why is it called so, no one knows. It has been suggested that the name reminds us of Maimonides, or Moses ben Maimon, the outstanding character of the Jewish culture, philosopher and theologist,...
For 6 portions of this fresh juicy salad you will need: 3 tomatoes, mix of lettuce leaves about 300 gr., 1 onion, 1 garlic, goat cheese Buche de Chevre 200 gr., Maestro de Oliva or Iberica olive oil 3 tablespoons, Iberica red wine vinegar 1,5 tablespoons, and also salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. For a start it is...