On April 14th, Andalusia was filled with traditional costumes, dances, and music to celebrate in style the Seville April Fair, an event that will end this Saturday, the 20th. Since 1847, thousands of people gather in Seville to share affection and joy for Sevillian traditions, where Andalusian food plays a leading role.
During the last week, the tables at the Fair have been filled with fried pescaíto, potato omelette, stews, or sweets served in the casetas. If you want to enjoy these typical dishes of Andalusian gastronomy at home and say goodbye to the Fair, we suggest some of these easy and tasty recipes. Get inspired!
Traditional Andalusian Gazpacho
It is an icon of Andalusian gastronomy and is an ideal entrée when it starts to get hot. It is tasty, refreshing and very easy to prepare. The typical Andalusian gazpacho has peppers, tomatoes, cucumber and garlic. It is important that you choose ripe and quality tomatoes to make it tasty, and if you want you can add small pieces of bread or vegetables.
Salmorejo
Another ideal recipe to whet your appetite and refresh you is salmorejo, a cold tomato cream originally from Cordoba. The difference with gazpacho is that only tomato is used, and no other fruit or vegetable.
Potato omelet with onion
This dish, so representative of Spanish cuisine, is a must at the Fair. It requires you to take into account the proportions of eggs and onion per kilo of potatoes, as well as the variety of these ingredients to achieve a spectacular result. If you want it to be liquid inside, it is important to cook it over high heat and for a short time. With a little patience and time, you will have an ideal dish!
Squid Andalusian style
The first day of the Fair, "la noche del pescaíto" is celebrated, where the members of the casetas enjoy fresh fish, anchovies, marinade and squid.
Lamb stew
The stews have great prominence during the lunches of this celebration. The "casetas" usually prepare "the stew of the day" and one of the most popular is the lamb stew. It can be easily prepared, for example, with the Thermomix. Choose a quality meat and, if you feel like it, you can accompany it with rustic style potatoes.
Cuttlefish and potato stew
Potatoes with cuttlefish are also a very characteristic and delicious stew these days. At home, it only requires time for the cuttlefish to be tender and that you prepare a good sofrito to get a tasty sauce, to which you can add a chopped almonds, garlic and parsley to enhance it even more. It usually has bay leaf, so you can add it to the ingredients of this recipe.
Wind fritters
At the Fair, the sweets that are usually most present are churros with hot chocolate or buñuelos de viento, which you can fill with whatever you like, chocolate cream, vanilla or custard. You can accompany them with a good hot chocolate and enjoy!