A cook's tour of Spain Essential ingredients for Spanish cooking

Date Published:: 13/03/2008

Tommi Miers cooked her way across Spain. Here is her shopping list of essential ingredients to cook like a Spanish pro

1. Hot pimenton

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1. Hot pimenton (Image 1 of 7)

Made from any of several different types of long red peppers dried, slowly over an oak burning fire for several weeks, pimenton is a popular ingredient for spicing up many Mediterranean recipes.

Good with: beef, cabbage, caraway, chicken, cream, eggs, fish, paella, potato, pork, rice, sausage, seafood.

Try it in this chicken and chorizo wraps recipe