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Tapas Recipes, Spanish Culture and Andalucian Gourmet Food... Discover typical authentic Spanish recipes as well as the culture surrounding the famous cave dwellings in the Granada province of Spain.
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Cazuela Eggs
Terracotta cazuelas, the essential tool found in every Spanish kitchen. A cazuela is a clay dish which is fired and then glazed. Tremendously useful and very hard wearing cazuelas also come in a multitude of sizes from 8cm to almost three feet! Read ...
Stuffed Chicken Legs with Catalan Sausage
This is a great Spanish chicken recipe which can be adapted to use any sausage at all - the bigger the better! Take a Cumberland sausage for example, very much at home stuffed inside a rolled chicken leg, pick your herbs, season and enjoy a fantastic...
Morcilla and Pancetta Roast
This Spanish recipe for belly pork and black pudding is very similar to our pork and black pudding roast. The main difference though is that this version can be served up as Spanish tapas or raciones.Ingredients:Pancetta (in a sheet, scored)6 Morcill...
Spanish Mackerel Tapas
Spanish seafood tapas are very popular in Spain - especially in Andalucia on the Mediterranean coast and also in the Northern regions of Spain most famously Galicia. Most good tapas bars and Spanish restaurants will serve up delicious tapas, order a ...
Recipe for Skate Wings
Andalucian seafood recipes. With southern Spain being on the Mediterranean coast seafood is plenty and can be found on every restaurant menu. Battered calamari is a firm favourite in the tapas department but for something a little more complex try th...
Spanish Devilled Eggs
Devilled eggs are ideal tapas and are very easy make. One egg makes two tapas so the main ingredient is good for doubling up as well. More recipes at Orce Serrano Hams online deli.Ingredients: (24 tapas)12 Large eggsParsley24 Anchovy fillets http://...
Serrano Ham & Prawn Tostadas
Serrano ham and prawns... a land and sea combination perfect for summer tapas. This Spanish recipe adds a seafood twist to the humble "tostada" using sliced serrano ham, prawns, herbs and a simple toast with salsa. Very simple, very tasty. Enjoy!Ing...
Chorizo Braised in Red Wine
Chorizo braised in red wineA fantastic way to add a twist to the humble Spanish chorizo. Cooking chorizos or mildly cured chorizos are good for this recipe, you have of course, the option to go hot "picante" or sweet "dulce"... Very simple, very tas...
Recipe for Dogfish
This Basque style Dogfish recipe is quick and easy making it ideal for a family supper. The garlic and chili really add something special to this succulent, meaty fish.You will need:4 thick Dogfish fillets (skin and bone removed)4 cloves garlic, pe...
Stuffed Mussels
This is a great seafood recipe, if you like your mussels and need to try something different then these stuffed mussels will not disappoint. Stacks of flavour and a combination that really does work well.2 kilos large mussels, scrubbed and beards re...
Tapas Recipe Kits
Have you ever fancied creating your own Bacalao Fritters, Fabada Asturiana or Gambas as Pil Pil?Following on from our recipe for the Orce "Fire" Chorizo last year we decided to create some authentic recipe kits for popular Spanish dishes which make ...
Tapas - Ultimate Simplicity
Tapas are a simple affair, still free with your alcoholic drink in the province of Granada here in Spain. Charging for tapas!? This has always been something that vexes me, bars, people and the culture that created and still serve tapas see no reason...
Catalan Sausage Stuffing
When cooking a turkey for Spanish Christmas dinner the principles are exactly the same as cooking any Christmas turkey. Stuffing however is slightly different due to the sausages used, in this case Catalan sausages.Catalan sausages are similar to a C...
Spanish Mackerel Asado
This recipe for Spanish mackerel was given to us by the local fish shop owner (she even wrote it own for us as Spanish asado's must be cooked right!). A Spanish "Asado" is a slow cooking process - the most popular being with lamb or Orce's own "Corde...
Top 40 Tapas
Top 40 Spanish Tapas, spice up the Christmas season with a range of tapas dishes to impress the guests and create a spread like no other with some authentic food. Here we have a list of the top 40 tapas dishes served up in and around the village of O...
