The food of Galicia
8 dishes tied to Galicia, Spain: born there, or made its own.
Empanada
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 morePastry turnovers filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables, baked or fried
Pie or savoury pastry, Lunch, Dinner
ChurrascoMeat
🇧🇷 Brazil and 6 moreGrilled meat, often beef, cooked over coals or on skewers in South America and Iberia
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
OrujoVegan
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 moreStrong, clear pomace spirit distilled from grape residue in northern Spain
Drink
Tetilla cheeseVegetarianqueixo tetilla
🇪🇸 SpainSoft, conical cow’s milk cheese from Galicia in northwest Spain
Cheese or dairy food
Polbo á feiraFish or seafood
🇪🇸 SpainOctopus boiled and dressed with olive oil, salt, and paprika, served hot
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Padrón peppersVegan
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 moreSmall green peppers from Galicia, Spain, often fried and served as tapas
Street food, Snacks
BroaVegan
🇵🇹 Portugal and 4 moreRustic bread made with cornmeal, rye or wheat, found in Portugal and Brazil
Bread
Caldo galegoMeat
🇪🇸 SpainHearty Galician soup with greens, potatoes, beans and pork
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Churrasco: Julio Cesar Martins, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Broa: Mvdiogo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Orujo: Orujo_de_hierbas.jpg : MollySVH derivative work: Saibo ( Δ ), CC BY 2.0, source
- Empanada: Horacio Cambeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tetilla cheese: Tamorlan, CC BY 3.0, source
- Polbo á feira: Tamorlan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Padrón peppers: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Caldo galego: Juan, CC BY-SA 2.0, source