Coffee Break Spanish - Typical Spanish dishes to try this summer | A Coffee Break with Pablo

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

While we're working on our next podcast series to help you improve your Spanish, we hope you enjoy this mini-lesson with Pablo. In today’s episode, we explore some typical Spanish dishes you should definitely try this summer! ☀️🍽️ You’ll learn about dishes like: ➡️ la paella ➡️ la horchata ➡️ el gazpacho andaluz ➡️ la coca de trampóWhether you're heading to Spain or just want to bring some Spanish flavour into your kitchen, this episode will leave your mouth watering and your vocabulary growing!➡️ Continue building your Spanish skills and sign up for our newsletter here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, I'm Pablo and I hope that you're having a a week fabulous. This is Coffee Break Spanish and today it's my turn to bring you a we espresso episode in between seasons of our main podcast. The other day at the office over lunch, I was chatting to my colleague Francesca from Coffee Break Italian and we were comparing some refreshing dishes of Italian and Spanish cuisine. So that inspired me to take you on a little culinary journey through my favorite Spanish summer dishes,

that you can also eat, of course, all year long. So get ready because we'll start in my beloved homeland, Valencia. And of course, I can begin anywhere else but with La Paella. Now, listen carefully. if you ever come to Valencia and call something paella when it's not the real paella, let's say that things could get tense and I'm only half joking. La Autentica Paella doesn't have chorizo. Ever.

It's made with ingredients like rabbit, chicken, green beans and a very big pan. That's precisely where the name comes from. You can, of course, have seafood paella, which surprise doesn't have chorizo either. Now, if you prefer something sweet, you have to try La Orchata, or La Orchata in Valencian. It's a refreshing plant-based drink made from chufas, tiger nuts. And it's usually paired with soft sugary pastries called Faris. Perfect for dipping. They're deliciousos, trust me.

Next top, Majorca for La Coca de Trampo. La Coka de Trampo is a crispy flatbread top with tomato onion and red and green pepper. Tomate, cebolla, pimento rojo, and pimento verde. Drizzle, of course, with olive oil, Azeite de oliva, summer on a plate. Farther north, in Catalonia, we have Scalibada, a smoky mix of grilled vegetables like Overgene, onion, and red pepper,

berengenna, cebolla, and pimento rojo, grate on toast or on a side dish. And finally, we, We head to Andalusia for the classic Gazpacho Andalus. A cold tomato soup with, of course, tomatoes, cucumber, peppino, Pimiento Verde, green pepper, ajo, garlic, and mixed together with, for sure, the Aceite of olive oil.

And a little bit of vinegar. Buenissimo. If you like that, you love salmorejo. A creamier version from Cordova made with breadcrumbs and usually topped with boiled egg and dice hamon Serrano. Heaven on a bowl. I could definitely go on forever talking about other summer dishes. but just with these ones,

Se me has la boca-a-a-a-wa. Literally, my mouth is watering. Se me-a-a-boca-a-a-a-a-a-a-a. So I'll leave it there, but I hope I've tempted you to try any of these dishes or maybe to cook them yourself.

Now, before I let you go, here are three questions to see if you've been really paying attention to me. The first question is, what are fartons typically served with? Very bien. With or chata, that sweet drink made from tiger nuts. Too fast.

Question two. But this time I'm going to ask you to translate something. So we said that the main ingredients of the Majorcan traditional flatbread, Coca de Trampo, were tomatoes, onions, and red and green peppers. Can you translate into Spanish, tomatoes, onions, and red and green peppers? On you go.

Eso is tomatoes, ceboillas, and pimpinos rojos and reddes. And finally, what makes salmorejo creamier and thicker than Gazpacho? Breadcrums.

Migas of pan. Because when you add them to the mix, it becomes creamier and thicker. Well, well, that's all for my part. I hope that you have liked this little voyage culinary a through different regions of Spain. A brazo very strong of my part and, for sure, of all the team of Coffee Break Spanish. Until the next.

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