gachas
Sign in to saveGachas is an ancestral basic dish of central and southern Spain. It is a gruel whose main ingredients are flour, water, olive oil, garlic, paprika and salt.
Key facts
- Prepared food.name
- Gachas
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- Gachas de matalauva..JPG
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- 250px
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- Gachas de matalauva. Sweet gachas from Andalucía flavored with anise
- Prepared food.country
- Spain
- Prepared food.region
- Andalusia, Castile-La Mancha, parts of Comunidad de Madrid, Region of Murcia, parts of Extremadura and Valencia
- Prepared food.course
- Staple dish
- Prepared food.served
- Warm
- Prepared food.main_ingredient
- Wheat flour, grass pea flour or corn flour
- Prepared food.variations
- Sweet gachas (gachas dulces)
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Variations
- Andalucía
- Castilla-La Mancha and Comunidad de Madrid (grass peas)
- Toxicity of grass pea gachas
- Valencia and Aragon
- Gachas as a dessert
- See also
- References
- External links
Gachas is an ancestral basic dish of central and southern Spain. It is a gruel whose main ingredients are flour, water, olive oil, garlic, paprika and salt.
==Origin== Gachas is considered an unrefined rural dish, the food of shepherds, farmers and itinerant labourers. It has been also described as a "fundamental gitano (gypsy) dish".