Easter: the best time to have tapas in Spain!

Whether you are a believer or not, everyone knows how frenzied and spectacular Spanish Holy Week is. For this reason, opting for tapas for meals is the best option.

Holy Week is one of the most authentic and traditional festivities in Spain. The streets of the vast majority of cities and towns are transformed into scenes of religious devotion in which mourning, music, art, color and solemn parades are mixed.

This holiday It is not only known for religious acts, but also comes accompanied by a gastronomy appropriate to the moment, as traditional as the processions, and highly anticipated by many throughout the year.

Traditional Easter food

Although spring has already arrived, the weather is still coolIn addition, according to religious tradition, we have spent forty days of fasting and abstinence, Lent; these are the two reasons why most of the traditional Easter dishes They are made from a spoon and do not have meat.

All these foods that we are going to show you can be found wherever you go in the form of tapas and portions to share (or not, that depends on how hungry you are).

Apart from the usual typical tapas: squid, fried fish, Serrano ham, Iberian cheeses … In Spain, bars and restaurants fill their menus with new traditional dishes that will replenish you after a long procession and allow you to continue on to the next one.

Let’s start with the salty

Some of these typical savory foods of Holy Week are the garlic soup, warm and replenishing, typical of grandmothers; the chickpea stew, made with chickpeas, spinach and cod, it is the perfect tapa if you want to eat something warm, that fills you up and gives you all the energy you need to continue with the day. The Bacalao Al Ajoarriero It is another of the essentials for lunch and dinner.

As you can see, cod is the star of the dishes. It is also very common to find caps of cod fritters.

This is because it is a fish that is easy to find in much of the peninsula, and since meat cannot be eaten on Fridays during Lent, what better option than fish to accompany our meals?

In Castilla, one of the most typical dishes of these festivals and that you can find everywhere are the potatoes to the importance and the widows potatoes. Without meat, but very warm and rich.

In Valencia, faithful to their beloved paella, the typical thing will be that you find fasting rice tapas. A meatless rice accompanied by fried onion and potatoes, hard-boiled eggs or green beans.

Not everything is salty, there are also dishes for those with a sweet tooth

In much of Spain, most typical sweets are torrijas and fried milk, but these are not the only ones. In Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia or Castilla, it will be almost impossible not to find the mona de pascua, a typical sweet that is eaten, as its name suggests, on Easter day.

In much of Extremadura and Andalusia, also in Madrid, it is very typical of Easter to eat pestiños, some sweets made with flour, oil and honey that are hard, very crunchy and delicious.

If you decide to spend Holy Week in Galicia, don’t leave without trying their crepes, A species of pancakes filled with pastry cream … Wonderful!

As you can see, the Spanish gastronomic tradition during Holy Week is spectacular, that is why it is the best time to tapas anywhere. You will always find magnificent new dishes to try and that will fill you with energy to continue your holiday.