. Spain is rich in potatoes, tomatoes, chili peppers, olives, and likes to use olive oil and garlic when cooking. The cuisine is varied and has unique flavors.?
Tapa
Tapa is an appetizer before a meal or a snack between meals, and plays an important role in Spanish food culture.
There are many different types of tapas, including cold and hot dishes, meat, seafood and vegetarian dishes. Cold food is mainly bread with various fillings and olive oil, sprinkled with minced onion and egg yolk layer as an additional ingredient, which is very delicious. The hot part of the itpa is mostly fried, like fried squid, fried baby cuttlefish, fried chicken wings, etc., as well as grilled pesto shrimp, garlic mushrooms and so on.
Come to Spain to travel, must go to taste this specialty of the delicious, to experience the life belonging to the Spaniards.
/ Spanish Ham/
Spanish ham is one of the most representative cuisines of Spain, which is world famous.
Spanish ham has a history of more than a thousand years, the earliest can be traced back to the era of the Roman Empire, its production process and selection of materials are very careful. It can be categorized into Jamón serrano and Jamón ibérico from the raw materials.
Serrano ham is made from common white hoofed pigs, which are more common in markets and restaurants; Iberian ham is made from Iberian black hoofed pigs, which are rare in production, and is completely air-dried at high temperatures and then sealed with wax, so that almost all of the fat is turned into oil in the process of air-drying at high temperatures and runs off, and it can be considered a low-cholesterol food.
/ Paella/
Spanish paella (Paella, pronounced Baea), one of the three famous dishes of Western cuisine, and French snails, pasta is famous. Paella originated in Spain, the capital of fish and rice - Valencia, is a kind of rice food made of burgundy rice from Spain as a raw material.
Legend has it that in the 15th century, Columbus was attacked by a hurricane while sailing, and escaped to a small island, where the local fishermen used seafood and rice to make a pot of chowder, which saved the life of Columbus, who was starving and cold. Later, Columbus returned to Spain, and the king about this, the king ordered the palace chef to the island to learn to do paella, and later the royal palace with paella to entertain the most honored guests. In this way, paella from the fishermen's table moved to the king's banquet, from then on, paella became Spain's "national meal".
/Spain La Mancha (La Mancha, Spain) Cheese/
When it comes to La Mancha, we may not be more familiar with the cheese, but Don Quixote. It is not only the hometown of Don Quixote, but also the hometown of the famous Spanish painter El Greco (El Greco). In fact, La Mancha is also famous for its cheese.
La Mancha is also proud of the cheese it produces, the most famous cheese in Spain, made exclusively from the milk of the Manchego Mianyang in a specific region of La Mancha. In addition to Spanish ham, La Mancha cheese is another thoughtful companion for Spain's wine lovers.