Recipes

Chickpeas and Spinach Broth Recipe

Chickpeas and Spinach Recipe

Caldo de Espinacas y Garbanzos Before moving to Spain more than 20 years ago from the UK I doubt whether I’d ever seen or heard of a chickpea never mind eaten one! Yet nowadays it’s a great favourite of mine in all kinds of hearty stews. Many of these stews …

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Chicken With Red Peppers Recipe

Pollo al Chilindrón Recipe

Pollo al Chilindrón Pollo Chilindron or Chicken with Red Peppers comes from Navarra in the north of Spain but it is a dish which you will find being served all over the country. It is often one of the main courses in a Menu del Dia (menu of the day). …

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Chicken with Mushrooms Recipe

Chicken and Mushrooms Recipe

Pollo con Champiñones This Chicken with Mushrooms recipe uses a whole chicken chopped up into small pieces which is a very typical way of eating chicken in Spain. The only problem with doing this is that you tend to get bone fragments in the dish. If you prefer you can …

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Chicken Livers in Sherry Recipe

Spicy Chicken Livers Recipe

Higaditos de Pollo al Jerez Chicken livers in sherry is a dish that we first tasted when we lived in the mountains north of Madrid. It is a favourite in some of the tapas bars in that area and was always a favourite with Gerry although I am not such …

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Chicken and Olive Casserole Recipe

Spanish Chicken and Olive Casserole Recipe

Cazuela de Pollo y Aceitunas The following recipe makes use of fresh herbs, olive oil and olives as well as fresh peppers and other ingredients that give it a distinctly Mediterranean flavour. It can be served with couscous which wouldn’t be usually considered a particularly Spanish ingredient yet it is …

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Carne en Salsa Recipe

Carne en Salsa Recipe

Stewed Pork in Sauce Carne en Salsa is a dish which you will mainly find in Andalucia. It is a lovely, tasty dish which can be served as either a main dish with chips or as a tapa. The most important thing about this dish is to make sure that …

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Sea Bass in Salt Recipe

Sea Bass in Salt Recipe

Lubina a la Sal On a trip to Cordoba Kirsty and I were staying out in the El Brillante district to the north of the city centre. We were walking into town one lunchtime and spotted a row of small bars on a side street offering menús del día so …

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Baked Basque Fish Recipe

Baked Basque Fish Recipe

Pescado Asado a la Vasca The Basque Country of northern Spain is home to more than twenty Michelin-starred restaurants located mainly in the cities of San Sebastian and Bilbao. This is one of the world’s great food destinations. The region has an interesting history of private gastronomic societies known as …

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Agua de Valencia

Agua de Valencia

Spanish Champagne Cocktail As the name suggests Agua de Valencia comes from the Valencia region. Apparently the history of the drink can be traced back to Café Madrid in Valencia in the late 1950s. It seems that a group of Basques who frequented the bar used to order “Agua de …

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