Recommended Galician food dishes

·         Caldereta de pescado (a simple meaty White fish stew with paprika olive oil garlic and potatos)

·         Arroz con Bogavante (traditional Galician seafood dish, a little similar to risotto or paella)

·         Leche frita  (custard fritters)

·         Pulpo – you can try this anywhere, but particularly at the pulpo a Galega (octopus) dedicated Pulperias

·         Empanada (traditional Galician pie)

·         Gambas al acillo (prawn dish)

·         Bacalao a la Portuguesa (salted cod dish)

·         Erizos con Algas y huevos revueltos (erkins with scrambled eggs and seaweed - an unlikely but stunning dish

·         Zamburinas (similar to scallops)

·         Tarta Santiago

·         Bika cake

·         Canas (dessert pastry tubes with custard inside!)

·         Cocido Galego  (head of the pig with a black pudding style chorizo with some pieces of hen and beef, chick peas, potatos, carrots, cabbage and pork lard)

·         Piementos de Padron (famous small slightly spicy green peppers, cooked simply by frying in olive oil).  Saying – unos pican e autros no (some are spicy and others aren’t) sometimes served with chinchos (similar to mackerels but smaller

·         Percebes (goose barnacles seafood)

·         Pinxtos special arzua cheese wtih roastred pepper and anchovie on top