Spain

White bean soup

This is the Galician white bean soup recipe more popular over Spain, because of its simplicity - Caldo gallego can become more sophisticated with the addition of chorizo or other meats - and we

White bean soup (caldo gallego)

Sangría

Sangría can be prepared with cheap wine and taste good, but in sangrías as in everything, quatily pays off.

Sangría

Riojan menestra

The most elaborate of all menestras, delicious and a stylish display on the table.

Door on stone wall, Spanish country style

No sauce menestra

No sauce, no wine. This is a variation of the menestra Monterrey recipe; we use the same technique.

Leeks

Navarran menestra

First quality healthy vegetables are the main ingredients for this recipe.

Peas in spoon

Lamb menestra

This type of menestra is a meal on its own. To serve as an appetizer, halve the meat or just skip it.

Peas in spoon

Gazpacho

The better tomatoes you use the better your gazpacho will be. Juicy tomatoes like plum tomatoes, or any other of the kind used for sauce, work best.

White Mediterranean walls

Easy menestra

This simple recipe can be adapted for speed cooking by using pre-prepared or frozen vegetables. Fresh vegetables make it really special, but frozen vegetables are better than no vegetables.

Casserole dish

Castilian garlic soup

Despite its humble beginnings as poor man cooking, garlic soup has grown to represent Castilian cooking.

Garlic heads

Basic Menestra

This is the most traditional way to prepare a menestra. To prevent the sauce from sticking to the bottom of the pan once simmering, just shake the it.

Peas in spoon

Where to go from here?

First step would be stocking the staples you need to cook international. Why not follow the recommendations in our basic pantry?

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