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Spanish Shrimp with Chickpeas Recipe – Spanish Recipe Blog

This Spanish shrimp with chickpeas recipe is one of my favorite dishes I learned in culinary school. I hope you enjoy this delicious combination too! One of the best things I made last year while in culinary school in Barcelona was a classic Spanish dish called garbanzos con cigalas....

Squid and Potato Stew Recipe (Guiso de Chipirones con Patatas)

Lauren Aloise

Before living in Spain I’d had my fair share of fried calamari (I still miss the Rhode Island style squid I grew up on — dripping in butter and spicy banana peppers), but I’d rarely eaten calamari (or squid or cuttlefish for that matter) any other way. Here in...

Fricandó Recipe – Slow Cooked Beef Stew with Mushrooms

Lauren Aloise

I’d never heard of fricandó until last week when I arrived at culinary school and opened up my recipe for the day. But I was the exception– it turns out that most of my Catalan peers knew this dish well. They had grown up eating fricandó, a delicious beef...

Lentejas con Chorizo Recipe (Simple Spanish Lentil Soup)

Lauren Aloise

The first time I tried Spanish lentejas con chorizo I was studying abroad in Granada. My host mom, Josefina, served me a heaping plate of hot lentil soup, and proceeded to add a healthy splash of sherry vinegar. My first bite of Josefina’s lentejas was memorable– she wasn’t a...

Quick Spanish Fabada Recipe – Delicious White Bean & Chorizo Stew

Lauren Aloise

There is nothing more comforting when winter comes around than a heaping bowl of fabada Asturiana, a delicious white bean and chorizo stew typical of northern Spain (Asturias). A typical Spanish fabada recipe includes huge white beans, called fabes, and what I like to call “the holy trinity”– morcilla...

Traditional Spanish Pisto Recipe

Lauren Aloise

Pisto is basically the Spanish version of ratatouille (stewed vegetables), and it’s one of my husband’s favorite dishes. It sounds remarkably simple, but like most simple dishes in Spain there are excellent versions and terrible ones. The trick, as usual, is the quality of your produce and of your...