Hello everybody! We are Andrea, Alba Pérez and Alba Hidalgo and you are listening to the podcast second episode belonging to the IES Mediterráneo Podcast Project. In this week recording, we are going to have a look at the typical food in Salobreña.

As we come from Salobreña, a small town on the coast of Granada, and we are studying the first year of Bachillerato at the IES Mediterráneo, in Salobreña as well, we have decided that we are going to tell you something tasteful about our customs: the food in our town.

 To start form scratch, let us mention that, in general, the Andalusian gastronomy comes from the Arab tradition, which established the order in serving dishes: soups, meats and sweets. The most popular dishes derived from this tradition are gazpachos, frites and a rich variety of sweets. Most of them have honey, almonds and pinenuts as basic ingredients.

 Well, in Salobreña it is almost impossible not to eat well as our gastronomy is supported by three main pillars: the sea, the fertile valley and the endless knowledge of women and men, who have known how to give flavour to the stews of this region. Indeed, Salobreña has an ancient cooking tradition due to the civilizations that reached its coasts and gave origin to dishes of great quality and variety. Fish, seafood, vegetables, pigs and calves provide the raw material for a cookery inspired in the Mediterranean diet. In this way the gazpacho, the espetos of sardines, fried dry olive oil espichás or big holes, “ajoblanco” (whose main ingredient are the almonds) deserve to be tasted directly from the sea or in one of the many restaurants in the village, which, by the way, have a natural enchantment.

 As a village whose economy is partly based on fishing, Salobreña tries to carefully prepare and serve good fish. Fried pescaíto goes with good salads: tender and crunchy lettuce from the close fertile valleys and pieces of avocado and other tropical fruits. Salobreña takes from neighbouring towns, such as Vélez Benaudalla, the tradition of the pestiños, candies of Morisco origin that demand a great culinary skill. A pestiño is a mass of flour, cinnamon, white wine and brandy (or anise and salt) kneaded and cut in strips and fried in hot oil, in which there are a slightly fried crust of orange, sesame and matalahúga.

 Among agricultural products from Salobreña we find subtropical fruits and vegetables.

Apart from avocados, which can be bought in all seasons, and custard apples, from December to February, the exquisite sweet potato mustn’t be forgotten. In Salobreña good rum is also elaborated. It must be tasted with a bit of sugar cane in the glass.

 Fruits and vegetables can be bought in the tercenas and the rum, in the market. Fresh fish can be acquired in the market, brought by the fishermen of the town on the same day.

 Do you want to cook something typical on your own? Let’s have a look at this recipe of fried breadcrumbs or migas.

The INGREDIENTS are:

- 1 loaf of bread bought the previous day

- 200g of bacon

- 1 chorizo

- 2 bulbs of garlic

- Salt and olive oil

And you have to follow these STEPS:

1. Crumble the previous day’s bread. The resulting breadcrumbs are soaked with water and mixed with garlic previously crushed. Leave them some hours before doing them.

2. Fry the bacon, the chorizo and enough garlic divided into pieces in the olive oil.

3. When everything is fried, it is taken out to a plate. Later, throw the breadcrumbs without stopping.

4. When they are in the middle of its cooking, add the bacon, the chorizo and the garlic which were previously fried. Continue stirring until they are finally cooked.

Well, that was all. We hope you have found this information interesting and you want to visit our region and try new dishes.

Thanks for listening!

ACTIVITIES

1. Listen to the previous podcast file and answer the following questions:
 

a) Are restaurants in Salobreña a good place where we can taste traditional dishes?

b) What is the basic ingredient of sweets?

c) What are the subtropical fruits?

d) How many verbs can you see in the recipe? What do they mean?

e) Find synonyms for taste (VERB/NOUN).

2.  Create a glossary with all the words you have listened to in relation to traditional cooking.

3. Can you name another typical dish and provide a recipe of it?

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