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Spanish Cuisine

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Spanish cuisine varies markedly by region, tied to local geography from Galician seafood to Andalusian gazpacho, but shares an abundant use of olive oil, garlic and saffron across the whole country. Centuries of Moorish rule under Al Andalus, from 711 to 1492, diffused rice cultivation and citrus fruit into the Iberian peninsula, and tomatoes and potatoes arrived from the Americas after 1492 and became central to dishes such as gazpacho and salmorejo. Tapas, small dishes traditionally served with a drink, are widely regarded as identifying Spanish gastronomic culture internationally.

Facts
Signature Technique
Cooking rice slowly in a wide shallow pan over an open or low heat, the technique behind paella and its many regional variants. 1
Origin Region
The Iberian Peninsula, southwestern Europe. 2
Connections

Associated With

More than three hundred years of Spanish colonization introduced fiesta foods, wheat pastries and a name that came to be attached to the pre existing native vinegar cooking technique, adobo.

Source Filipino Cuisine Was Asian Fusion Before Asian Fusion Existed (Smithsonian Magazine)

Expresses Tradition

Source Un Pais de Tapas (Real Academia de Gastronomia, Spain)

Features Dish

Arros a banda, Dishes
Source Arros a banda (Wikipedia)
Arroz caldoso, Dishes
Source Arroz caldoso (Wikipedia)
Bienmesabe, Dishes
Source Bienmesabe (Wikipedia)
Blancmange, Dishes
Source Blancmange (Wikipedia)
Source Caragols a la llauna (Wikipedia)
Source Cocido madrileno, Wikipedia
Croquette, Dishes
Source Croquette (Wikipedia)
Empanada, Dishes
Escabeche, Dishes
Source Wikipedia: Escabeche
Esqueixada, Dishes
Source Esqueixada (Wikipedia)
Source Fabada asturiana - Wikipedia
Fideuà, Dishes
Source Fideuà (Wikipedia)
French Fries, Dishes
Source French fries (Wikipedia)
Gachas, Dishes
Source Wikipedia, Gachas
Galician Bread, Dishes
Source Galician bread (Wikipedia)
Garlic soup, Dishes
Source Garlic soup (Wikipedia)
Gazpacho, Dishes
Hornazo, Dishes
Source Hornazo (Wikipedia)
Huevos Rotos, Dishes
Source Huevos rotos (Wikipedia)
Source Liver and onions (Wikipedia)
Mantecada, Dishes
Source Mantecada (Wikipedia)
Menudo, Dishes
Source Menudo (soup) - Wikipedia
Migas, Dishes
Source Migas - Wikipedia
Miguelitos, Dishes
Source Miguelitos (Wikipedia)
Oblea, Dishes
Source Oblea (Wikipedia)
Paella, Dishes
Source Paella, Rice With Everything (Smithsonian Magazine)Derek Workman
Source Patatas a lo pobre (Wikipedia)
Pescado Frito, Dishes
Source Pescado frito (Wikipedia)
Pincho, Dishes
Source Pincho (Wikipedia)
Source Quesada pasiega (Wikipedia)
Shakshouka, Dishes
Source Shakshouka (Wikipedia)
Source Torta de Gazpacho (Wikipedia)
Xuixo, Dishes
Source Xuixo (Wikipedia)

Uses Ingredient

Chorizo, Ingredients
Garlic, Ingredients
Source Un Pais de Tapas (Real Academia de Gastronomia, Spain)
Olive Oil, Ingredients
Source Un Pais de Tapas (Real Academia de Gastronomia, Spain)
Tomato, Ingredients
Source Paella, Rice With Everything (Smithsonian Magazine)Derek Workman
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Paella, Rice With Everything (Smithsonian Magazine)
Derek Workman, Smithsonian Magazine, 2011View the Source
2. Un Pais de Tapas (Real Academia de Gastronomia, Spain)
Real Academia de Gastronomia (Spain)View the Source
Filipino Cuisine Was Asian Fusion Before Asian Fusion Existed (Smithsonian Magazine)
Smithsonian Magazine, 2015Associated With: Filipino CuisineView the Source
Arros a banda (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Arros a banda, Lead section, second paragraphView the Source
Wikipedia: Escabeche
Features Dish: Escabeche, Wikipedia category listView the Source
Menudo (soup) - Wikipedia
Features Dish: Menudo, Wikipedia category listView the Source
Migas - Wikipedia
Features Dish: Migas, Wikipedia category listView the Source
French fries (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: French Fries, Wikipedia category listView the Source
Shakshouka (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Shakshouka, Wikipedia category listView the Source
Pincho (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Pincho, Wikipedia category listView the Source
Blancmange (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Blancmange, Wikipedia category listView the Source
Liver and onions (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Liver and onions, Wikipedia category listView the Source
Oblea (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Oblea, Wikipedia category listView the Source
Cocido madrileno, Wikipedia
Features Dish: Cocido Madrileno, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Cocido Madrileno, lead paragraph
Cocido madrileño (Spanish: [koˈθiðo maðɾiˈleɲo]; "Madrilenian stew") is a traditional chickpea-based stew associated with the Madrid region.
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Fabada asturiana - Wikipedia
Features Dish: Fabada Asturiana, lead paragraph
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Fabada asturiana, often simply known as fabada, is a rich Asturian bean stew, originally from and most commonly found in the autonomous community of Principality of Asturias, but widely available throughout the whole of Spain and in Spanish restaurants worldwide.
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Wikipedia, Gachas
Features Dish: Gachas, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Gachas, lead paragraph
Gachas is an ancestral basic dish of central and southern Spain.
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Torta de Gazpacho (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Torta de Gazpacho, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Torta de Gazpacho, lead paragraph
Torta de gazpacho is a type of torta, or flat bread, used to prepare a dish called gazpacho or gazpacho manchego in La Mancha and Southeast Spain, including Murcia and parts of the autonomous community of Valencia.
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Huevos rotos (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Huevos Rotos, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Huevos Rotos, lead paragraph
Huevos rotos or huevos estrellados is any of a number of Spanish dishes involving eggs fried in a large amount of olive oil or any other oil.
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Pescado frito (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Pescado Frito, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Pescado Frito, lead paragraph
Pescado frito (lit. 'fried fish' in Spanish), also called pescaíto frito (lit. 'fried little fish' in Andalusian dialect), is a traditional dish from the Southern coast of Spain, typically found in Andalusia, but also in Catalonia, Valencia, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands.
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Croquette (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Croquette, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Croquette, lead paragraph
A croquette (; French: [kʁɔkɛt]; Spanish: croqueta) is a deep-fried roll originating in French cuisine and most extended in Spanish cuisine consisting of a thick binder combined with a filling, which is then breaded.
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Garlic soup (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Garlic soup, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Garlic soup, lead paragraph
In Spanish cuisine, sopa de ajo ('soup of garlic') is a traditional garlic soup made with bread and egg poached in chicken broth, and laced with garlic and sherry.
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Mantecada (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Mantecada, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Mantecada, lead paragraph
Mantecadas are spongy sweet bread originating in Spain.
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Esqueixada (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Esqueixada, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Esqueixada, lead paragraph
Esqueixada (Catalan pronunciation: [əskəˈʃaðə]) is a traditional Catalan dish, a salad of shredded salt cod, tomatoes, onions, olive oil and vinegar, salt, and sometimes a garnish of olives or hard-boiled eggs.
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Fideuà (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Fideuà, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Fideuà, lead paragraph
Fideuà (dialectal pronunciation of the Valencian word fideuada "large amount of noodles" from Andalusian Arabic fidáwš) is a seafood dish originally from the coast of Valencia that is similar to paella, and even more so to arròs a banda, but with pasta noodles instead of rice.
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Patatas a lo pobre (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Patatas a lo pobre, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Patatas a lo pobre, lead paragraph
Patatas a lo pobre (lit. 'poor man's potatoes') is a simple potato dish from Andalusian cuisine.
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Xuixo (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Xuixo, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Xuixo, lead paragraph
Xuixo (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈʃuʃu]; also known as xuxo; Spanish: suso) is a viennoiserie from the city of Girona in Catalonia, Spain.
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Quesada pasiega (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Quesada pasiega, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Quesada pasiega, lead paragraph
Quesada pasiega is a dessert typical of the region of Cantabria, Spain.
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Miguelitos (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Miguelitos, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Miguelitos, lead paragraph
They originated in La Roda, in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: Manuel Blanco, the creator of these flaky desserts, was born in La Roda in 1925.
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Bienmesabe (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Bienmesabe, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Bienmesabe, lead paragraph
Bienmesabe (Spanish: "it tastes good to me") is a sweet Spanish dessert prepared with honey, egg yolk, and ground almonds as primary ingredients.
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Hornazo (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Hornazo, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Hornazo, lead paragraph
Hornazo (Spanish: [oɾˈnaθo]) is a Spanish meat pie eaten in the provinces of Salamanca and Ávila.
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Arroz caldoso (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Arroz caldoso, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Arroz caldoso, lead paragraph
Arroz caldoso is a dish which originated in Spain.
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Galician bread (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Galician Bread, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Galician Bread, lead paragraph
Galician bread (pan galego in Galician, pan gallego in Spanish) is the bread that is traditionally produced in the autonomous community of Galicia, in northern Spain, recognized as a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) since December 20, 2019.
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Caragols a la llauna (Wikipedia)
Features Dish: Caragols a la llauna, lead paragraph
Quote, Features Dish: Caragols a la llauna, lead paragraph
Caragols a la llauna (or cargols a la llauna in certain dialects, or cargolada in Northern Catalonia) is a delicacy of Catalan cuisine.
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