Since writing my many blogs for you all to read, I have spent a lot of time talking about different types of Spanish food, recipes,ingredients,where to eat, how to shop, what to ask for, my love of Spanish food and so on.
The one thing I have not touched on as yet is what your kitchen should contain to make it complete, making it a Spanish kitchen. Here are some my basics and cupboard ingredients list below:
Almonds
Beans (dried or cooked)
Chick peas (dried or cooked)
Chicken stock
Corn oil
Coffee beans (for freshly brewed coffee)
Chorizo sausage
Dried mixed herbs
Dried parsley
Dried oregano
Dried cured ham (jamón serrano)
Eggs
Fresh green peppers
Fresh tomatoes
Fuet (a dried cured meat from Barcelona)
Garlic
Garlic salt
Ground black pepper
Lentils
Milk
Oranges
Olives (different types)
Paprika
Potatoes
Pasta (different types including vermicelli pasta for
Red wine for cooking
Rice
Saffron
Spanish cheeses
Sherry (for cooking)
Tin tomatoes
Tomato purée
Tin peppers
Tin tuna
Tin asparagus
I hope that this will be of help to all of you who want to create your own Spanish Kitchen.
Happy cooking.
