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The name mofongo refers to cooked plantains mashed with fat (olive oil, lard, or butter), spices, and pork in a wooden mortar and pestle called a pilón (made with mahogany or guaiacum, both native hardwoods) and shaped more or less into a ball and in or alongside broth. The mofongo is then able to absorb any juice or broth from the seared meat ...
Olive oil (of which Spain is the world's largest producer) is extensively used in Spanish cuisine. [1] [2] It forms the base of many vegetable sauces (known in Spanish as sofritos). [3] Herbs most commonly used include parsley, oregano, rosemary and thyme. [4] The use of garlic has been noted as common in Spanish cooking. [5]
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.. It is commonly used in cooking for frying foods, as a condiment, or as a salad dressing.
Aioli, allioli, or aïoli (/ aɪ ˈ oʊ l i / or / eɪ ˈ oʊ l i /; Provençal Occitan: alhòli or aiòli; Catalan: allioli [ˌaʎiˈɔli]; Spanish: alioli) is a cold sauce consisting of an emulsion of garlic and olive oil; it is found in the cuisines of the northwest Mediterranean.
In modern Spanish cuisine, sofrito consists of garlic, onion and peppers cooked in olive oil, and optionally tomatoes or carrots. This is known as refogado, sufrito , or sometimes as estrugido in Portuguese-speaking nations, where only garlic, onions, and olive oil are considered essential, tomato and bay laurel leaves being the other most ...
The cooking of the area is not to be confused with the Mediterranean diet, made popular because of the apparent health benefits of a diet rich in olive oil, wheat and other grains, fruits, vegetables, and a certain amount of seafood, but low in meat and dairy products. Mediterranean cuisine encompasses the ways that these and other ingredients ...
a salad that consists of shredded salt cod, tomatoes, onions, olive oil and vinegar, salt, and sometimes a garnish of olives or hard-boiled eggs. Fideuà or Fideuada: Valencian Community: noodle dish a noodle dish with a similar recipe to paella, usually made with seafood and fish, and optionally served with alioli sauce (garlic and olive oil ...
Manzanilla olives ("man-zah-nee-ya") or Manzanillo, also Manzanilla de Sevilla (in Spain), originally from the area of Seville, Spain, are sometimes referred to as Spanish olives but along with Arbosana, Arbequina, Cacereña, Hojiblanca, Empeltre, and Gordal there are over two hundred varieties grown in Spain as well as other areas.