Recipes

Simple Mediterranean recipes using seasonal ingredients, local produce and flavours you can easily bring into your own kitchen.

Recipes

Simple Mediterranean recipes using seasonal ingredients, local produce and flavours you can easily bring into your own kitchen.

Authentic Spanish tortilla tapas dish

Spanish Tortilla:
Recipe for Success

One of the most common dishes to be found all over Spain is the tortilla, a thick omelette containing sliced potatoes sautéed in olive oil.
Delicious Paella con Mariscos, or seafood paella on La Costa Brava

Traditional
Seafood Paella

This easy-to-follow seafood paella recipe with prawns, mussels, clams & squid will have you producing delicious paella in no time.
Fresh mojito cocktail with rum, lime, mint, sugar and ice on La Costa Brava

How to Make
a Classic Mojito

The ‘official’ mojito recipe with the story of how this classic Caribbean cocktail became one of the most popular drinks around the world today.
Refreshing gazpacho is just the ticket on those hot summer days! Costa Brava, Catalunya

Refreshing
Summer Gazpacho

When temperatures begin to rise in summer in Spain, it’s time to break out one of the most popular dishes of the season: Andalucian gazpacho.
Spanish pistachio nougat with whole pistachios on a wooden board

Spanish Pistachio
Nougat (Turrón)

Crunchy and sweet, pistachio turrón is Spain’s classic nougat: toasted nuts folded into honeyed syrup, sliced thin for coffee-time sharing.
Chickpeas with spinach, a traditional Spanish lent dish cooked with olive oil and spices

Chickpeas with Spinach:
Lenten Vegan

Chickpeas with spinach is especially typical of Sevilla, where it is eaten during the winter months. During Lent it is eaten all over Spain.
Romesco sauce is typically prepared with ñora peppers, tomatoes, almonds and hazelnuts.

Romesco Sauce:
A Catalan Classic

Romesco sauce can be found at every calçotada and goes perfectly with both the calçots and the meat. Check out our recipe to make it at home.
Three crispy golden croquettes on forks against a yellow background

Crispy, Creamy
Croquettes

Croquettes are a classic of Spanish cuisine, alongside tapas and paella. With a bit of patience, they’re easy to prepare in almost any flavour.
Traditional Catalan St. Stephen’s Day canelones de carne

Canelones de Carne:
A Christmas Classic

On the feast of Sant Esteban on 26 December (St. Stephen’s Day), there is no more typical dish in Catalunya than canelones de carne.
Rice, just waiting to be turned into a paella!

Our Favourite
Spanish Rice Dishes

Even people who have never visited Spain have heard of ‘paella’, but did you know there’s a whole plethora of Spanish rice dishes?
A bowl of rice with pumpkin mushrooms and crispy bacon served in rustic tableware

Mushrooms, Pumpkin,
Bacon & Rice

Fall is the ideal time of year for this simple yet delicious recipe as the key ingredients are in season – mushrooms, pumpkin, and even rice.
Healthy homemade sweet balls of fig and almonds in coconut and sesame.

Spanish Fig &
Almond Balls

There are lots of recipes using figs and this is one of the easiest. It takes almost no time at all and the ingredients are all easy to find
Escalivada is a healthy grilled vegetable dish

Escalivada:
A Catalan Classic

Escalivada is a roasted vegetable dish very traditional in Catalunya. Its name comes from a verb in Catalan meaning ‘to roast in the embers’.
Tasty authentic Spanish Albondigas (meatballs)

Albóndigas:
Spanish Meatballs

Meatballs are a favourite across Europe, and Spain is no exception. Known as ‘albóndigas’ in Spanish or ‘mandonguilles’ in Catalan.
Tartiflette is a delicious cheesy dish for those chilly winter days.

Tasty Tartiflette
Recipe

Tartiflette is an easy-to-cook French dish made with Reblochon cheese that originated in Savoie in the Alps. Perfect for chilly winter days!
Homemade pumpkin pie, a traditional Thanksgiving dessert.

Homemade
Pumpkin Pie

What could be more seasonal – and delicious – around Thanksgiving time than pumpkin pie? And the good news is that it’s pretty easy to make!
A decadently delicious slice of chocolate and chestnut pie

Chestnut Pie with
Chocolate

Seasonal autumn chestnuts combine delightfully with chocolate in this delicious chestnut and chocolate pie, perfect around Castanyada time!
This pumpkin and chestnut soup recipe really couldn’t be any easier.

Hearty Chestnut &
Pumpkin Soup

Pumpkins & chestnuts are in season at the same time so a super easy delicious soup recipe with both as the star ingredients is a no-brainer.
Delicious and easy to make: Roast chicken with artichoke and white beans

Roast Chicken with
Artichoke & Beans

Artichokes (alcachofas) are in season December-March and this simple, delicious recipe, with chicken & beans is one lovely way to enjoy them.
Morcilla with apples and brandy sauce.

Black pudding with
apples & brandy sauce

Local Catalan black pudding, or morcilla, prepared with apples in a brandy sauce – this simple recipe will really impress your dinner guests.
Traditional Moroccan tajine of chicken with saffron, lemons and olives.

Green Olives and Saffron Chicken Recipe

Saffron chicken with green olives is a typical Moroccan dish of chicken pieces slow cooked with lemon juice, spices, garlic, onion & olives.