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Spanish Recipes

While I grew up cooking Italian food, Spanish was the first cuisine I actively studied, decades ago. This is my collection of Spanish recipes, mostly using fish, game and edible wild plants and mushrooms.

A platter of Spanish mushroom rice
Photo by Holly A. Heyser

Spanish cooking draws on a huge array of influences, from their centuries' long occupation by the Moors, to the Columbian Exchange after 1492, to Basque and French influences, and even Celtic touches in Galicia.

Seafood is huge in Spain, so you will see a lot of Spanish recipes here using fish and seafood. Same with game, as the Spanish are known for hunting things like wild boar and partridges.

Some of my favorite Spanish recipes include fish with green sauce, a classic often done with hake, salt cod fritters made with homemade salted fish, partridge, quail or pheasant escabeche -- a dish of cooked game birds, soused in a vinegary sauce that is amazing eaten as a cold lunch -- and what may be the ultimate wild game stew, chilindron. Chilindron is normally made with chicken or lamb, but it's great with virtually every type of game animal.

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A bowl of puchero stew.

Puchero

By Hank Shaw on January 31, 2022 - 9 Comments

Puchero is a hearty stew made all over the Spanish-speaking world. This is a Mexican puchero recipe uses beef or venison and lots of vegetables. Simple, satisfying and it keeps well.

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A ramekin of saffron aioli.

Saffron Aioli

By Hank Shaw on December 8, 2021, Updated May 5, 2022 - Leave a Comment

Aioli is one of those magic sauces, equally at home with both fried foods and poached meats. It is a Spanish garlic mayonnaise — aioli requires garlic to be an aioli — to which I’ve added some saffron for color and flavor. How to make saffron aioli? Well, traditional aioli uses just garlic and olive

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Catalan monkfish recipe on a plate

Catalan Monkfish

By Hank Shaw on April 8, 2021, Updated May 27, 2021 - 6 Comments

A great monkfish recipe from Spain. Monkfish tails, seared and then sauced with a roasted garlic, saffron and tomato sauce. Any firm fish will work with this recipe.

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Fish with Spanish green sauce on a plate

Spanish Green Sauce for Fish

By Hank Shaw on March 25, 2021 - 6 Comments

This is the classic Spanish green sauce for fish, most often as merluza en salsa verde, but you can sub in other fish for the merluza, which is hake.

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A platter of Spanish mushroom rice

Spanish Mushroom Rice

By Hank Shaw on October 12, 2020, Updated March 29, 2021 - 10 Comments

Basically this is a paella that hinges on mushrooms, with pork and paprika playing harmony. Wild mushrooms like porcini are best, but whatever you have will do.

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Guatemalan turkey soup

Guatemalan Turkey Soup

By Hank Shaw on November 25, 2019, Updated June 15, 2020 - 23 Comments

A turkey soup recipe from Guatamala called Kak’ik, meaning “red and spicy” in Maya. It’s a great turkey soup to try when you’re looking for something new.

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A platter of Spanish butifarra sausage links.

Spanish Butifarra Sausage

By Hank Shaw on August 19, 2019, Updated June 15, 2020 - 15 Comments

Spanish Butifarra is a great basic sausage recipe to learn: Pork, salt and pepper, maybe one or two other spices.

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salt cod fritters

Salt Cod Fritters

By Hank Shaw on July 22, 2019, Updated January 22, 2021 - 20 Comments

Salt cod fritters, Spanish style. Called bunelos de bacalao in Spanish, you can make these with any salted fish.

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Hi, my name is Hank Shaw. I am a James Beard Award-winning author and chef and I focus my energies on wild foods: Foraging, fishing, hunting. I write cookbooks as well as this website, have a website dedicated to the intersection of food and nature, and do a podcast, too. If it’s wild game, fish, or edible wild plants and mushrooms, you’ll find it here. Hope you enjoy the site!

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