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Portuguese and Spanish Food
Custard tarts from monks, hams fed on acorns and clams named after a poet: pull up a chair at the Iberian table and see how much you really know.
🍜 Food
medium
20 questions
~7 min
What this quiz asks
- Bacalhau, the ingredient Portugal is devoted to, is what?
- Besides eggs, which ingredient is essential to a Spanish tortilla?
- Which Valencian rice dish takes its name from the word for this wide, shallow pan?
- The custard tarts of Belém were first made by monks at which Lisbon monastery?
- The finest jamón ibérico, labelled 'de bellota', comes from pigs fattened on what?
- Which spice gives Spanish chorizo its deep red colour?
- The francesinha, a meat sandwich under melted cheese and a beer-based sauce, comes from Porto.
- Caldo verde, a Portuguese soup, gets its green colour from what?
- Select ALL of these that are traditional Portuguese dishes.
- In the Basque Country, what are the small bar snacks, often pinned to bread with a stick, called?
- Is turrón, the Spanish Christmas sweet, made mainly from almonds and honey?
- Pulpo a la gallega, octopus with paprika, salt and olive oil, is traditionally served on what?
- The cod used for Portuguese bacalhau is caught mainly off the coast of Portugal.
- Order these Spanish meals by the time of day they are usually eaten, earliest first.
- Salmorejo, a thick cold purée of tomato, bread, garlic and olive oil, comes from which city?
- Ovos moles, sweet egg yolk wrapped in thin wafer shaped like shells and fish, come from which Portuguese city?
- Select ALL of these that are Spanish sausages.
- Which Castilian city, famous for its Roman aqueduct, is renowned for roast suckling pig carved with the edge of a plate?
- In what year did the Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém open in Lisbon to sell the monks' custard tarts?
- Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato, clams with garlic, coriander and lemon, are named after what kind of person?