A selection of delicious tapas
The Ultimate Tapas Guide
Sometimes tapas menus can be confusing, especially when they bad or no English translations. Here is our Ultimate Tapas Guide List of the most common tapas served in Andalucia:
- Ensaladilla rusa - "Russian" potato salad with potatoes, carrots and peas in mayonnaise and usually some tuna.
- Albondigas - meatballs, usually pork, served in a tomato or an almond sauce
- Patatas ali-oli - a potato salad with a garlic "mayonnaise"
- Berenjenas con miel - deep-fried, crispy aubergine fritters with honey
- Croquetas - bread-crumbed croquettes containing ham, fish or cheese
- Flamenquin - Fried veal, ham and cheese rolls.
- Tortilla de patatas - Spanish potato omelette
- Ensalada de pimientos asados - salad of roasted red peppers
- Boquerones en vinagre - fresh anchovies marinated in vinegar
- Gambas al pil pil - prawns sizzled in oil with garlic and chilli
- Remojón - salad of olives and oranges
- Cazón en adobo (a.k.a. Bienmesabe) - crispy fried bites of marinated fish
- Salpicón de mariscos - Shellfish cocktail
- Pollo al Ajillo - chicken sautéed with garlic
- Bomba de patatas - "bombs" of potato filled with meat
- Gazpacho - a cold tomato soup
- Salmorejo - Gazpacho cream
- Patatas bravas - fried potatoes with a spicy tomato sauce
- Ensalada de pulpo - Octopus salad
- Montaditos - small sándwich rolls
- Huevos rellenos - "deviled eggs", stuffed eggs
- Champiñones / setas al ajillo - garlic mushrooms
- Solomillo en salsa pimiento - pieces of steak in peppercorn sauce
- Salchicha en vino - small sausages in wine
- Chorizo a la sidra - chorizo in cider
- Pimientos de padrón - Padrón peppers fried in olive oil and coarse salt
- Pinchitos - meat or vegetable brochettes (on a stick)
- Espinachas con garbanzos - spinach with chickpeas
- Jamon serrano - cured ham
- Calamares a la romana - deep-fried squid rings in batter
- Pescaíto frito - a dish of mixed pieces of deep-fried fish