Galician Cuisine

Galician cuisine refers to the typical dishes and ingredients of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. These include shellfish, empanadas, polbo á feira, an octopus dish, queixo de tetilla cheese, ribeiro and albariño wines and orujo liquor. As in Asturian cuisine, Galician dishes have kept several Celtic links, namely in different stews. The potato, first arriving in Spain from the Americas in the sixteenth century, is a staple along with maize and wheat and with dairy and meat from cattle, sheep and pigs. Galician bread, a high-hydration bread of indigenous and foreign wheats, received the European Union protected geographical indication in 2019.