DISHES AND TYPICAL GASTRONOMY FROM CÁDIZ
The way of living and the local culture offer to the visitor a gastronomic offer full of good taste and tradition. Having a gastronomic tour, visiting the best restaurants and tasting the best tapas in the city is one of the best experiences you can have when visiting Cádiz.
Despite the fish and the seafood from the Gulf of Cádiz are the winners, we can also taste other delicious dishes, made of beef and bush meat. But, which typical dishes can we eat in Cádiz? Good question.
Here you have the 4 typical dishes from Cádiz that we have selected. Let’s start!
It is served warm, newly fried. You can eat it with a little bit of fresh lemon juice, but it is said that it hides the flavour that the sea’s quality offers. You can have it as a snack or as a main dish.
The wild red tuna is an autochthonous fish which is found in Cádiz’s coastline, more specifically in Barbate’s almadrabas. In addition to being one of the best tuna in the world, local people and visitors consume it because of its texture, its flavour and its protein content. It is such a gastronomic jewel!
Red tuna tartar is eaten raw and cut in very small pieces. It is served cold and with some added elements: a dill touch, capers, sacallions, soja sauce drops, vinegar from Jerez, salt, pepper and a good oil, with designation of origin from the province.
In this occasion we have chosen an avocado recipe, because it gives that special touch, delicious!
In the XIX century it could be tasted in every Cádiz frying, so you can imagine the great tradition this exquisite fish, originating from the shark, has. The most popular ways of preparing it are marinade, non-marinade or cooked in yellow.
The marination is made with garlic, paprika,oregan, comin, laurel, vinegar and olive oil. It is lately poured in flour and a hot and abundant amount of olive oil, for it to be crunchy.
This fish, on the part of how delicious it is, it is also full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
Gastronomist from Cádiz have affirmed in some researches that prawn omelette could have more than 500 years of culinary tradition, with an Hispanic-Italian origin. It isa historic recipe!
The way of serving must have a perfect texture: crunchy borders and juicy inside. A healthy and humble dish, whose popularity is maintained through the whole year.
If you didn’t know about the prawn omelette, it is a typical Cádiz recipe that you mustn’t miss!
The way of living and the local culture offer to the visitor a gastronomic offer full of good taste and tradition. Having a gastronomic tour, visiting the best restaurants and tasting the best tapas in the city is one of the best experiences you can have when visiting Cádiz.
Despite the fish and the seafood from the Gulf of Cádiz are the winners, we can also taste other delicious dishes, made of beef and bush meat. But, which typical dishes can we eat in Cádiz? Good question.
Here you have the 4 typical dishes from Cádiz that we have selected. Let’s start!
- PESCAÍTO FRITO (Fried fish)
It is served warm, newly fried. You can eat it with a little bit of fresh lemon juice, but it is said that it hides the flavour that the sea’s quality offers. You can have it as a snack or as a main dish.
- RED TUNA AND AVOCADO TARTAR
The wild red tuna is an autochthonous fish which is found in Cádiz’s coastline, more specifically in Barbate’s almadrabas. In addition to being one of the best tuna in the world, local people and visitors consume it because of its texture, its flavour and its protein content. It is such a gastronomic jewel!
Red tuna tartar is eaten raw and cut in very small pieces. It is served cold and with some added elements: a dill touch, capers, sacallions, soja sauce drops, vinegar from Jerez, salt, pepper and a good oil, with designation of origin from the province.
In this occasion we have chosen an avocado recipe, because it gives that special touch, delicious!
- CAZÓN EN ADOBO (MARINATED DOGFISH)
In the XIX century it could be tasted in every Cádiz frying, so you can imagine the great tradition this exquisite fish, originating from the shark, has. The most popular ways of preparing it are marinade, non-marinade or cooked in yellow.
The marination is made with garlic, paprika,oregan, comin, laurel, vinegar and olive oil. It is lately poured in flour and a hot and abundant amount of olive oil, for it to be crunchy.
This fish, on the part of how delicious it is, it is also full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
- TORTILLA DE CAMARONES (PRAWNS OMELETTES)
Gastronomist from Cádiz have affirmed in some researches that prawn omelette could have more than 500 years of culinary tradition, with an Hispanic-Italian origin. It isa historic recipe!
The way of serving must have a perfect texture: crunchy borders and juicy inside. A healthy and humble dish, whose popularity is maintained through the whole year.
If you didn’t know about the prawn omelette, it is a typical Cádiz recipe that you mustn’t miss!
