Berlitz Pocket Guide Lanzarote & Fuerteventura by Berlitz Publishing

Author:Berlitz Publishing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Spain
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2018-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

Vegetables

The vegetables you are offered will be those that are in season, and, because the island does not produce a great variety and imports are expensive, choice may be limited. Pulses such as lentils (lentejas) and chickpeas (garbanzos) are used a lot. Canary tomatoes are delicious – although most of those you get here will have been imported from Gran Canaria – and Lanzarote onions are far sweeter than those from mainland Spain. If you like garlic, ask for tomates aliñados, tomato salad smothered with olive oil and garlic. Pimientos de padrón – small green peppers cooked whole and covered with salt – originated in Galicia and are now found everywhere. Avocados (strictly speaking a fruit, not a vegetable) are served at a perfect stage of ripeness.

Most dishes contain or are accompanied by potatoes (papas). You won’t go far without encountering papas arrugadas (wrinkled potatoes), which are served with meat and fish or by themselves as tapas. They are small potatoes – the yellow-fleshed Tenerife variety are best – cooked in their skins in salted water, then left to dry over a low heat until their skins wrinkle and a salty crust forms. It is said that this dish originated with fishermen who used to boil the potatoes in sea water.

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