How to Understand the Menu in a Spanish Restaurant

By Graham Andrew Taylor






You will find starters under the heading "Entremeses or Entrantes" In this section you will often find subdivisions "Frio" or cold, "calente" or hot. Dishes that you could expect to find in the starter section are listed below:

Ensalada Mixta

A mixed salad, of leaves and tomato, onion, baby corn, and with as many a twelve ingredients in total including egg,pineapple,kiwi fruit,tuna,anchovies, seafood sticks,asparagus,olives,capers,artichokes and any thing else that comes to hand.

Ensalada Pollo

A chicken salad, consisting of leaves and cucumber and roast chicken pieces on a mayonnaise dressing

Ensalada Rusa

A Potato salad with carrots, peas, and tuna

Ensalada de Espinaca con Queso de Cabra

A spinach salad with goats cheese

Entrada frio

Jamon Iberico

Sliced Iberico ham produced from black iberian pigs fed on acorns, similar to serrano ham but higher quality so more expensive.

Lomo Iberico

lean slices of the same iberian pigs grilled.

Queso Curado de Oveja

Cured sheeps cheese

Anchoas en Aceite

Anchovies in oil

Entrada Calente

Morcilla con Pimientos Asados

Blood sausage with roasted peppers

Esparragos Verdes a la Parrilla

Grilled Green esparagus

Verduras a la Plancha con Parrilla

Grilled vegetables

Saquitos de Brick con Puerros y Gambas

Filo pastry parcels of leaks and prawns (shrimp)

Boletus a la Plancha con Ajitos Fritos

Grilled Boletus mushrooms with fried piquillo peppers

Revuelto de Morcilla, Pimientos y Patatas

Scrambled egg with blood sausage, peppers and potato

Revuelto de Boletus, Patatas y Jamón

Scrambled egg with Boletus mushroom, potato and ham

Boquerones en Vinagre

Whitebait (small fish) in vinagar

Soups

Sopa de Pollo con Fideos

Chicken Noodle Soup

Sopa de Pescado y Marisco

Fish and Shellfish Soup

Sopa de Lentejas

Lentil soup

Sopa de picadillo

A soup with shredded chicken, ham,egg, all in a broth

Gazpacho

Cold tomato soup

I hope that this has wetted your appetite for Spanish food, look out for the next article covering main courses. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/3273743