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Lanzarote - Delicious Simplicity

The cuisine in Lanzarote is wide and varied, as this island is cooked all kinds of food, both traditional recipes from Lanzarote as a variety of international cuisine.

 

 

Fish is the main base on which Lanzarote cuisine is founded.

Lanzarote´s dishes have meat also, together with cheese, vegetables and a variety of tropical products. We can say that the Lanzarote-Canarian relies much on it´s agricultural and livestock resources and a low reliance on fatty foods.

 

The cuisine of the Canary Islands is not the same to the Mediterranean cuisine with clear distinctions, and a peculiar style of doing things.

Canarian and Lanzarote cuisine is based on a farming tradition, tending to produce dishes, as we said, without large quantities of meat or fatty foods.

The fish, the most common dish and ingredient in many Lanzarote dishes, cooked in all the Islands in every conceivable way: fried, broiled, baked, sautéed, etc.. It is not unusual to serve it with the traditional red mojo sauce, mojo picon (spicy) or green mojo (softer).

Besides fish, seafood is also a very common dish in many parts of the Canary Island of Lanzarote. One of the most important dishes, traditional from the island of Lanzarote is "Sancocho", a fish stew. Another important dish is the gofio, which it has been served in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands for centuries, since it is a legacy of the ancient inhabitants of the Canaries, is created with roasted corn flour, wheat and corn. It can be had with fish broth or milk.

 

Lanzarote Cheeses

Lanzarote cheese is made with one hundred percent from raw goat's milk. Using a clotting enzyme it maintaines vitamins in the cheese. The resulting mixture of this process is pressed but not cooked, which helps to preserve their original excellent properties. The crust color is white, like the mass when cut. Its outer bark is thin and is highlighted by the traditional pattern of braided palm. Mild-tasting and palatable, with a delicate aroma. Ripened cheeses acquire externally white shades of ivory to dark brown. As more audacious bid, the cheeses are naturally smoked, or the original cheese covered with a layer of gofio or paprika.

 

 

Considering the processing time, the cheeses of Lanzarote can be:

Fresh:

Products made from canarian goat's milk without any additives. Cylindrical shape and pearly white. Aroma of fresh goat milk and cheese characteristic flavor, lactic and soft. The paste is a compact mass at cutting and grainy texture. It has a virtually nonexistent white crust.

 

Soft Cheese: Products made from added goat's milk at a suitable temperature. Its color is white with a slight ivory tone.

The paste offers a compact mass at cutting and creamy texture.

 

Semicured Cheese: It is made of Canarian goat milk which is added, at a suitable temperature. Slightly ivory tone and creamy flavor, lactic and slightly pungent, with soft shades of goat's milk. This type of cheese is also presented in other varieties: Semicured smeared with paprika, and semicured topped with gofio. It features a compact mass paste cut and a creamy texture. The outside has yellowish-brown color. In gofio or pepper varieties, the crust is the characteristic of these products.

 

Cured Cheese from Lanzarote: Made from canarian goat's milk, milk enzymes and salt, it also presents a variety of hard cheese rubbed with paprika and cheese spread with gofio. Yellow ivory and rich flavor, creamy and slightly spicy. Its compact body has a cut and creamy texture. It has a yellowish-brown color.

 

Wines from Lanzarote - Canary Islands -Spain

Malvasia Wines: This variety of white grape of Greek origin, these wines are very personal and aromatics.

 

Red Wine: With a spanish designation of origin Lanzarote red wines has been recognized in several prestigious competitions.

 

Vino Moscatel: This wine comes from the sweet muscat grapes, and the best is in Lanzarote, winner of several national and international awards.

 

 

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