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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 platter of Spanish mushroom rice

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Zarzuela de Mariscos

A recipe for zarzuela de mariscos, a Spanish seafood stew with lots of different seafoods, tomatoes, peppers and a zippy herb pesto at the end.

Charcuterie

Spanish Fuet Sausage

How to make Spanish fuet sausage at home. Fuet is a long, thin salami-style sausage lightly seasoned with garlic, white pepper and wine.

Spanish

Spanish Caldereta

Caldereta is a slow cooked stew from Spain, with variations across Latin America and the Philippines. Usually made with beef, I use a venison neck roast here.

Mexican

Puchero

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.

Spanish

Saffron Aioli

Aioli is one of those magic sauces, equally at home with both fried foods and poached meats. It is a…

Fish

Catalan Monkfish

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.

Spanish

Spanish Green Sauce for Fish

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.

Mushrooms

Spanish Mushroom Rice

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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Kak’Ik, Guatemalan Turkey Soup

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.

Charcuterie

Spanish Butifarra Sausage

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

Spanish

Salt Cod Fritters

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

Fish

Basque Cod al Pil Pil

A recipe for Basque cod al pil pil, made by shaking a pan with olive oil and garlic in it to emulsify into a magic sauce. Do this with any white fish.

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