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Gachas

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Gachas is an ancestral, basic dish of central and southern Spain, prepared as a gruel whose main ingredients are flour, water, olive oil, garlic, paprika, and salt. It is considered a staple food of the Andalusian region, reflecting a simple, low-cost peasant cooking tradition built around milled grain.

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Andalusia, Castile-La Mancha, parts of Comunidad de Madrid, Region of Murcia, parts of Extremadura and Valencia 1
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1. Wikipedia, Gachas
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Andalusia, Castile-La Mancha, parts of Comunidad de Madrid, Region of Murcia, parts of Extremadura and Valencia
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