Food translations
Aceitunas: olives
Alcaparrones: pickled capers
Caracoles: small snails
Cabrillas: large snails
Croquetas: croquettes made with bechamel and various fillings (chicken, ham, spinach, seafood), breaded & fried
Vegetables
- Calabacines - courgette/zucchini
- Espinacas con garbanzos - spinach and chick peas mixed with garlic and olive oil
- Habas con Jamon - broad green beans with chopped serrano ham
- Berenjenas rebozadas - aubergine/eggplant battered and fried in olive oil
- Berenjenas tapadas - fried breaded aubergine topped with bechamel
- Patatas bravas - fried potato wedges with mayonnaise and tangy brown sauce
- Patatas alinadas - small boiled potatoes marinated in vinegar, olive oil & chopped spring onions
- Patatas alioli - fried potato wedges in garlic mayonnaise
- Ensaladilla - potato salad with onions, peppers, tuna/prawns and mayonnaise
- Champiñones - mushrooms
- Setas - oyster mushrooms or wild mushrooms
- Pisto - ratatouille, usually served with a fried egg on top
- Calamares del Campo - breaded and fried onions and peppers
Soups
- Ajo Blanco - white garlic soup
- Caldo - chicken broth
- Gazpacho - cold tomato soup made with cucumber and garlic
- Salmorejo - thick, creamy gazpacho served with chopped serrano ham & hard-boiled eggs
Sandwiches
- Montatitos - small buns with various fillings, served either hot or cold
- Serranito - toasted bun filled with serrano ham, chicken breast or pork loin and grilled peppers
- Tablas - toasted thick-sliced country bread topped with salmarejo and serrano ham
Eggs
- Tortilla - thick potato omelette
- Reveulto - scrambled eggs mixed with various ingredients
- Huevos codornices - quail eggs
- Huevos rellenos - hard-boiled eggs filled with tuna
Rice
- Arroz - rice of the day, usually with meat and seafood
- Paella - slow-cooked rice with saffron, tomatoes, meat and seafood
Cured Meats
- Jamón Ibérico - thinly sliced, salt cured ham from free-range acorn-fed pigs
- Jamón Serrano - less expensive Jamon Iberico
- Caña de Lomo - cured loin of pork
- Morcillo - blood sausage
- Pringá - mixture of pork, morcillo and pork fat (delicious!)
- Chorizo - spicy sausage
Cheese
- Manchego
Pork
- Carne con tomate - stewed pork loin in tomato sauce
- Flamequines - breaded & fried rolls of pork loin, serrano ham and cheese
- Lomo - pork loin
- Solomillo al Whisky - pork tenderloin in whisky & garlic sauce
- Pinchitos - spicy pork kebabs
Poultry and Game
- Conejo - rabbit
- Cordonices - quail
- Duck - pato
- Perdices - partridge
- Pollo al ajillo - chicken pieces cooked in olive oil and garlic
- Polla al la plancha - grilled chicken breast
- Pavo - turkey
- Venado - venison
Beef
- Albondigas - meatballs
- Rabo de toro - bulls tail in spicy sauce
Fish
- Cazón en Adobo - fried marinated dogfish
- Bacalao - cod (usually salt cod)
- Bonito - tuna
- Boquerones - fried or marinated anchovies
- Caballas - mackerel
- Merluza - hake
- Pez espada - swordfish
- Pavía - battered and fried salt cod
- Pulpo - octopus
- Salmonetes - mullet
Seafood
- Almejas - clams
- Berberecho - cockles
- Bogavante - lobster
- Langostas - rock lobster (no claws)
- Cangrejo - crab
- Calamares - fried squid rings
- Calamares en su tinta - squid in ink
- Chocos - cuttlefish
- Cigalas - large prawns
- Coquinas - wedge shell clams
- Gambas al ajillo - peeled prawns served in sizzling olive oil with garlic
- Gambas a la plancha - unpeeled grilled prawns
- Gambas rebozadas - battered & fried prawns
- Navajas - razor shell clams
- Mejillones - mussels
- Ostras - oysters
- Puntillas - tiny fried baby squid
- Vieira - scallops