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pincho moruno
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Pinchitos or pinchos morunos is a Moorish-derived food in Spanish cuisine, similar to kebab. The name pinchitos is used in the southern Spanish autonomous communities of Andalusia and Extremadura. They consist of small cubes of meat threaded onto a skewer () which are traditionally cooked over charcoal braziers.
Key facts
- Prepared food.name
- Pinchitos
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- Pinchos - fugzu.jpg
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- 250px
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- Pinchos morunos ready to eat
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- Pinchos morunos
- Prepared food.country
- Spain
- Prepared food.course
- Appetiser or main course
- Prepared food.served
- Hot
- Prepared food.main_ingredient
- Pork or chicken
- Prepared food.variations
- Beef or lamb
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- Puerto Rico
- Venezuela
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Pinchitos or pinchos morunos is a Moorish-derived food in Spanish cuisine, similar to kebab. The name pinchitos is used in the southern Spanish autonomous communities of Andalusia and Extremadura. They consist of small cubes of meat threaded onto a skewer () which are traditionally cooked over charcoal braziers.
Similar dishes in North Africa or other Muslim majority countries tend to be lamb based, but pork and chicken are the most popular meats for the dish in Spain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pincho moruno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.