Spanish Recipes
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Mixed Sausage Paella
For most cooks, paella is a time-consuming production best saved for that Saturday evening dinner party. But this one, made just with a collection of sausages and very little fuss, produces a satisfying one-pot dinner in hardly more time than it takes to baby-sit a risotto. Sip a glass of earthy, meaty Châteauneuf-du-Pape alongside.
Fried Chickpeas With Chorizo and Spinach
Chickpeas are often cooked with spinach, from India to the New World. But in southern Spain, they are mostly made with chorizo. Combine these ideas, and you have a rich, deep, full-flavored stew perfect for a fast dinner on a cold night.
Chorizo Wrapped in Bread and Leaves
Creamed Lima Beans
Mussels With Chorizo
Potato, Ham and Piquillo Pepper Croquetas
Romesco Sauce With Marcona Almonds
Ancho Chili Butter
Paella With Shrimp and Fava Beans
“Sometimes the simplest paellas can be the most satisfying,” David Tanis wrote in 2012, when bringing this recipe to The Times. Here, fresh, wild-caught shrimp are peeled and deveined, the shells saved for a broth to flavor the rice (though a chicken broth can also be used, if you’re short on time). The shrimp is then marinated, and cooked separately, layered over a bed of rice, fava beans and chorizo.
Fruit Gazpacho
Tomato-Melon Gazpacho
White Peaches, Pistachios, Honey and Ricotta
This recipe is based on a dish from the chef Seamus Mullen of Tertulia in New York. It’s inspired by a Catalan honey-and-cheese dessert called mel i mató, with an unexpected sprinkle of pistachios and fresh peaches. After falling ill, Mr. Mullen changed his diet to focus more on ingredients with anti-inflammatory effects. Many such foods, like stone fruits, often play a central role in the Spanish cuisine he specializes in.
Torrijas
Rice With Rabbit
Memorable dishes sometimes come out of nowhere. One recent evening in Tarragona, just south of Barcelona, I wandered past a number of cafes and tapas bars. Txantxangorri, a Basque place serving rice dishes — not paellas — was the only one that had seats. The rice with rabbit, served in a terra cotta casserole, was simple, satisfying and, unlike the Michelin-starred dishes I had elsewhere in Spain, something I could try at home. With reds from Roussillon, a region that is practically in Catalonia anyway, I had my chance.If you do not have an earthenware casserole, you can make the whole thing, from stovetop to oven, in enameled cast iron.
Yellow Tomato Gazpacho with Goat Cheese Croutons
Halibut, Chard and Potato Casserole
This is based on a comforting Majorcan dish that is traditionally made with hake, a fish that isn’t as easy to find here as halibut or Arctic char, both of which I’ve used for the dish. Pacific halibut is the type that gets the Environmental Defense Fund’s highest rating. Make sure to cover this tightly so the fish doesn’t dry out. An hour seems like a long time to cook fish, but the fish is well insulated and won’t dry out.
Freda Cenarrusa's Braised Lamb Shanks
Prunes In Red Wine
Spanish Pork Skewers
For casual entertaining, the tapas experience translates well to the small home kitchen. One delicious hot tapas classic easily made at home is called pinchos Moruños, or Moorish skewers, essentially small kebabs of pork marinated in Arabic (Moorish) spices and grilled, usually on a hot steel plancha. Because most Muslim Arabs wouldn’t eat pork, one presumes the original dish was lamb. It’s anyone’s guess how it evolved into this ubiquitous tapa selection in Christian Spain. Nevertheless, now it means pork seasoned with garlic, cumin, coriander, pimentón and sometimes oregano. Once skewered, they need only about 5 minutes on a hot griddle.
Grape Gazpacho
White Gazpacho With Grapes
Almond Grape Gazpacho
Sauteed Asparagus With Fleur De Sel
Tomato-Watermelon Gazpacho With Avocado
After several days of sitting out on the counter feeding the fruit flies, even the firmest tomatoes start to slacken. That’s when you know it’s gazpacho time.This time I added watermelon, because I had it and because I wanted a slightly sweeter soup than usual. For color and voluptuous texture, I floated buttery avocado cubes on top. It was pretty enough to serve to company, and expandable enough to use up all the soft tomatoes on the oozing brink.