Essential Ingredients For Spanish Cooking | Food

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

6. Anchovies

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6. Anchovies (Image 6 of 7)

Usually prompt a 'love them' or 'hate them' response but used in sauces, anchovies are less of an assault on the taste buds than in their more familiar guise as a pizza topping and add a lovely oily saltiness to dishes. Boquerones are snow white, vinegar-cured anchovy fillets eaten as tapas and never cooked.

Good with: potatoes, eggs, cream, steak, fish dishes.

Try it in these croquettas