Turista maitea

It is one of the most popular dishes in Basque gastronomy, but do you know what the expression pil-pil means? It refers to the onomatopoeia of the sound made by the sauce as it is being cooked in the pan, hence the name.  

To make this recipe, you only need three ingredients and an earthenware dish: 4 pieces of boneless cod, 4 cloves of garlic and EVOO. Are you up for it? Then follow the steps that we indicate in the following link: Cod in pil-pil sauce recipe. 

In the Basque Country, we have always had the custom of saying that we work to "take the beans home", this saying reflects the importance that this legume has had in our environment, in fact, in the baserris (farmhouses) they used to eat them almost every day due to their high energy intake. 

The best known are Tolosa beans or Pintas de Álava beans , so this recipe can be made with either of them. Just don't forget the sacraments! Here is the recipe: Beans with sacraments recipe

This dish was the star recipe on Basque fishing boats, as it fed the entire crew with just a few ingredients. And as it was prepared in a vessel called a marmita, it adopted the name marmitako.  

At first, it was a potato stew, but over time, they added the tuna they caught while fishing, and, without realising it, they created a nutritionally complete dish. Here is the recipe: Marmitako.

We couldn't end this post without mentioning a dessert, and the one we are going to talk about next is the typical Basque dessert par excellence. Goxua, which means sweet in Basque, is a sweet from Vitoria-Gasteiz, although over time it has spread throughout the Basque Country. 

It is a sponge cake base with layers of whipped cream and custard with sugar and cinnamon on the surface, part of which is burnt to caramelise it. Do you want to sweeten up your loved ones a little? Here is the recipe: Goxua.