Gastronomy of Canary Islands

Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura

Tradition and delicious cuisine of Canary Islands

Spain is a country noted for its culture, cuisine and lifestyle. The paradisiacal Canary Islands hihglights by enviable location, its weather and delicious gastronomy.

If you visit Canary Islands, do not lose the chance of try some of its most traditional dishes.

Papas Arrugadas

One of the most well-known dish in Canary Islands is Papas Arrugadas with Mojo picon. The recipe of this dish is really simple; potatoes boilt in salt-water without peeling them and server with the traditional Canary Island sauce mojo picon or mojo cilantro as a side dish with fish or meat, or as an appetizer.

Mojo is a sauce that accompanies a variety of Canary Islands dishes and was probably introduced to the Island by Portuguese travellers an inmigrants. There are two types of Mojo; picón and green.

Normally, mojo picón is used to accompany potatoes, with roasted maize meal or with sancocho and the mojo green accompanies potatoes and fresh fish or roasted chicken.

Mojo sauce

Potaje de Berros

One of the most known vegetarian dish in these island is Potaje de Berros; a hot-pot of chickpeas, watercress, potatoes and beans with tomatoes, onion, peppers, garlic, salt, oil and saffron.

This dish is one of the most typical in Canarian cuisine.

Because of its high nutritional component, usually only dish.

Sancocho

In Canary Islands, the sansocho or casserole is a typical base salted fish, usuarlly sea bass or donkey, cooked potatoes or boiled, sweet potatoes, unpeeled and coarsely and mojo picon or mojo green.

Cheese Flor de Guía

In Canary Islands we can tasty a delicious cheeses. One of them is cheese Flor de Guía, a typical and smoked cheese from Gran Canaria.

Overall the flavour is of dairy products with a salines, varyrin slightly according to he milks used.

It does not have a very intense flavour, a creamines and sometime can be a little acid or spicy.

Canarian banana Probably, the canarian banana is the mostwell-known Canarian products. This type of banana has a higher degree of ripeness and spends longer growing on the plant than the tropical banana, given the smaller distance between banana production and the consumer market. Also, in the common banana, carbohydrates, soluble sugars and sucrose values are slightly higher, lending it a more floury texture than the Canarian banana. The latter aso has higher levels of potassium content.

Malvasia wine

Among the islands’ wines you should try the Malvasia from Lanzarote. This wine is characterized by its deep color, noted aromas and the presence of some residual sugar.

Common aroma notes associated with Malvasia include peaches, aprictos and white currants.

The Canary Islands are one of the better touristic destinations in Spain to enjoy of paradisiacal beaches while you are tasting its gastronomy.

In the island of Fuerteventura is located Piero’s Café, a local that has a great food offer and entertaiment.