Best recipes

Hi everyone!

Today I want to share with you some of the most traditional recipes in my country that I really like. Therefore, I invite you to when you visit the Basque Country try these incredible wonders!!!

In order to facilitate your visit, I will indicate the most suitable restaurant to taste these dishes.

The beans from Tolosa

They are usually eaten with cabbage, black pudding and chili peppers from Ibarra. The identification of the term 'Tolosa' does not come because its production is carried out exclusively in Tolosa and its region, but by the tradition of the market that is celebrated in that town since 1256.

Therefore, the best place to eat these beans is in Tolosa, and I’d recommend you the Fronton restaurant in Tolosa as they were the first to include the beans as a specialty of the menu to offer them throughout the year.

Marmitako

It consists in a stew, usually of albacore of the north or tuna, seasoned with tomato, onion, peppers and potatoes, which are prepared in a pot of metal, from which it receives its name.

You can try the best Marmitako in the restaurant of Martin Berasategi.

Fungi-s

The Basque Country is full of lovers of these little beings of nature called fungi. Each year, with the beginning of the first rains of September the first "fungi-s" begin to be seen. It’s a tradition to go with your family and friends to spend the day in the surrounding mountains to pick mushrooms and fungi-s with the objective of then enjoy them on the plate.

The mushrooms can be cooked in a lot of ways and all are amazing: baked, grilled, mushroom risotto, scrambled, mushroom cream, croquettes, sautéed with egg yolk and foie grass (my favourite one!),...

Sautéed with egg yolk and foie grass

Mushroom risotto

Scrambled fungi

Pil-pil Cod

Made with four basic ingredients: cod, olive oil, garlic and chili peppers. The name "PiL-pil" comes from the sound produced during the cod confit, when "pil" bursts some of the albumin bubbles that the fish releases.