La Christmas It is a time of year in which Spanish gastronomy gains a high profile in each house where families gather to enjoy feasts and special evenings. Although there are also those who decide to go to a restaurant instead of sitting at the traditional table with guests who are usually close friends. In any case, most typical Christmas foods They appear on stage in each autonomous community or region where one or the other exists. In this article we want to review what are the dishes and the recipes that are made in a traditional way in different parts of Spain. Surely some of them even surprise you!
The main trio
From the wide, varied and exquisite national cuisine, all kinds of delicacies prepared with great care could be collected here. Because at Christmas the gastronomic enjoyment it is almost mandatory in all families who can afford to buy pampered products quality. Now, we must put some above others, since they are the most abundant, in general, among the entire Iberian and island territory. We talk about baked seafood, meat and fish that in each place are made following their own recipe passed from generation to generation. We are going to start the tour of the most typical Christmas foods From north to south, from east to west.
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Galicia
Land par excellence of sea products, especially seafood, these are the real stars of the Galician table. Scallops stuffed, spider crabs cooked, clams slugs from the Rías Baixas or Carril, barnacles and shrimp cooked with seawater, octopus à feira, mussels ... On the other hand, there is cod with cauliflower or meat stews such as beef shank stewed in wine and lacon with turnip greens.
the Basque Country
El sea bream It is the most common marine delicacy among the most typical Christmas meals in Euskadi, where there is no lack of elvers neither. Fish soup is also very present but not everything is sea, since dishes such as cabbage with garlic and oil or chickpea stew.
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Cantabria
Entering into Cantabrian territory the star plate of Christmas contains snails and they prepare to the mountain, by means of a very tasty sauce to soak with bread. This usually has ham, homemade tomato and even walnuts. On the other hand is the campurriano chicken, so traditional in rural areas, or fish from the coasts of the Cantabrian Sea such as sea bream.
Asturias
We continue in the Principality, where some corn cakes on which different types of food are served are very typical on these dates. In addition to the classics beans or dishes with a taste of the sea, between hakes with clams or crabs, and even the kid with cider Asturian, very popular too.
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The Rioja
In the small region of La Rioja, the product that sneaks onto the tables of the locals is the vegetables. It is not very common in other autonomous communities, but it is in The Rioja, where he Cardo With Almonds It is a recipe of its own. Despite this, as in other regions near the north of the peninsula, fish are usually eaten at Christmas as well as some Castilian suckling meat.
Navarre
Another community in which a food from the country reaches the kitchen for Christmas. We talk about asparagus, which is not lacking in the starters prior to main dishes such as lamb chilindrón. However, the gastronomy of Navarre at this time drinks a lot from that of the the Basque Country with your fish.
Castilla y Leon
Precisely in reference to those most typical Christmas foods that are shared in several Spanish communities we have to mention the suckling pig roasted in the oven. A meat delicacy that is originally from Castilla y León, especially Segovia, but has already spread to other nearby areas such as Aragón or Madrid. Now, the Castilian-Leonese also enjoy the lamb suckling pig or trout soup.
Madrid
In the Spanish capital, traditional Castilian dishes are usually eaten, as we have mentioned, and also some baked fish. Of course, always accompanied by foods typical of the land such as red cabbage. Madrid cuisine really concentrates some recipes from other regions. But between the most typical Christmas foods in Madrid we can highlight the almond soup, the consomme Madrid, the endive salad with pomegranates or the stuffed poulard.
Aragon
In Aragonese lands we also find ourselves stews hot. And it is that in winter the christmas soup with chicken, pork, beef and vegetables it goes very well. Other typical foods of the time are the Ajoarriero cod, the thistle with béchamel sauce and, of course, the lamb of Aragon.
Catalonia
In the Catalan autonomous community it is very common to prepare escudella i can d'olla, a strong traditional stew. It carries different meats, chickpeas, vegetables and even potatoes. Also the Soup of pebble It is linked to the dish, as it is made with the broth from that stew to which a type of large pasta is added.
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Valencian Community
Valencians share with Murcians a ball pot made with meat, although it has its differences. Because in the recipe there are pork, beef, chickpeas, potatoes, blanquet and cansalà. On the other hand, many families opt for a Fish Zarzuela and seafood from the Mediterranean Sea.
Castilla la Mancha
Another Castilian territory that drinks from the gastronomies of other Spanish regions with the baked suckling pig and the soups, in this case garlic, or also fish such as hake. More typical of the land is the back of deer, partridge and some dishes with mushrooms.
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Estremadura
In the territory of Iberian products, the Truffled turkey or the baked suckling lamb, but also the ajoblanco or the Extremadura frit.
Andalusia
A soup of Hash, Jerez broth, some truffled cheeks and even baked fish. They enjoy these delicacies in different parts of Andalusia after their own aperitifs such as marinated olives or the Jabugo ham.
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Murcia
In the south also but to the east, the Murcia surprises us with a variety of most typical Christmas foods. They really are those that are eaten throughout the year: zarangollo, bouillon with balls, broad beans with ham ... In addition to baked meats and fish in sauce.
Balearics
We leave the Iberian Peninsula to travel to Balearic Islands, where at Christmas you usually taste Turkey stuffed. But also soups like almond, trout puff pastry or rice with monk.
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Canary Islands
Finally, in the Canary Islands do not fail wrinkled potatoes, the sancocho soup or the fish typical of its coasts: cherne, bocinegro, pollock ...
Ultimately, these are all some (not all, of course) of the most typical Christmas foods in every corner of Spain. If one year you have to spend Christmas away from home in another community, surely you will try dishes like the ones we have mentioned.
