Starters
Name | Image | Region | Type | Description |
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Canarian wrinkly potatoes Papas arrugadas |
Canary Islands | a representative Canarian dish of boiled and salted small potatoes usually served with a pepper sauce, mojo, or as an accompaniment to meat dishes. | ||
Coca | Catalonia, eastern parts of Aragon, most of Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Andorra and in French Catalonia | a savory or sweet pastry with toppings. Savory coca could be considered a twin sister to the Italian pizza | ||
Escalivada | Catalonia | Salad | a Catalan salad that consists of several types of grilled vegetables, such as eggplants, sweet red peppers, red tomatoes, and sweet onions. Once well cooked on the grill, those vegetables are peeled and sliced in strips, the seeds removed, and seasoned with olive oil and salt, and sometimes with garlic as well. | |
Migas | Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura | Entrée | It includes day-old bread soaked in water slowly fried with olive oil; often served with pan-fried pork ribs, green peppers, grapes, fried garlics, spicy sausage or sardines. | |
Pa amb tomàquet | Catalonia | bread with tomato | ||
Patatas bravas papas bravas |
widely expanded throughout Spain | a fried potato dish served warm with a spicy tomato sauce. It is traditionally accompanied by a glass of beer or any kind of wine. | ||
Pincho pintxo |
Basque Country and Navarre | appetizer | a small slice of bread upon which an ingredient or mixture of ingredients is put and held there using a stick. The common ingredients are fish such as hake, cod, anchovy, and baby eels; tortilla de patatas; stuffed peppers; and croquettes. | |
Pulpo á feira polbo estilo feira, pulpo á galega |
Galicia | boiled octopus sprinkled with coarse salt and paprika (pemento picante) and drizzled with olive oil.It is served along with boiled potatoes and bread. | ||
Tapas | Andalusia | appetizer | a wide variety of appetizers | |
Tortilla de patatas Spanish omelette |
egg omelette with fried potatoes. Frequently it also includes onion and garlic, depending on region or taste. | |||
Tumbet | Catalonia | vegetable dish | a traditional vegetable dish from Mallorca. Tombet combines layers of sliced potatoes, aubergines and red bell peppers previously fried in olive oil. | |
Zarangollo |
Murcian countryside | appetizer | scrambled eggs with zucchini, onion, and occasionally potatoes. frequently served in tapas bars in the area. |
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