Little by little, and almost without realizing it, autumn has arrived. The temperatures have dropped, and we are craving dishes that help us to fight the cold.
From Vitium, we would like to tell you about some dishes that the rich Cordoba gastronomy offers us for this time of year.
Mountain mushrooms: From the Forest to the Table (dishes made with mushrooms)
Autumn is the time of mushrooms. At this time, Nature offers us this delicacy, which has a great possibility of combinations and can be cooked in different ways. We show you some examples:
- Venison loin with the aroma of truffles and breaded mushrooms. This recipe, in addition to being delicious, is ideal from a nutritional point of view, because it contains vegetables in its preparation, and as a result, a very complete dish. You can taste it in many of the city restaurants.
- Serrano-style cardoon mushrooms. This dish, which can be enjoyed as a starter or as a tapa, is easy to prepare and is perfect to combine with a good Cordoban wine.
- Boletus edulis salmorejo. There is nothing more Cordoban than a good salmorejo. In autumn, we can accompany it with a minced boletus that will make this recipe a perfect first course.
Game stews: Intense flavours for the cold
Game meat is an ideal product for cooking, as it is a completely natural and very tender meat. These are some of the recipes in which this type of meat is the main ingredient.
- Cordoban-style wild boar stew. If there is a game meat par excellence, that is the wild boar. Any dish made with this meat is very nutritious, as a wild boar is an animal raised in the heart of nature and fed with the best of the forest. This recipe is ideal for fighting the low temperatures and can be accompanied with rice or potatoes.
- Venison in sauce. Venison is a meat that has many possibilities, and one of them is to prepare it with a good sauce, made from red wine and spices. This dish will comfort us and fill us with energy to continue enjoying our visit to the capital of Cordoba.
- Venison ragout with red wine. This traditional recipe is an excellent option for the autumn season, as it is a tender and soft meat, and cooked with wine, which makes it a dish capable of satisfying the most demanding of palates.
Cordoban autumn desserts.
Dessert is the culmination of any menu worth its salt, and no meal is complete without it. Cordoban confectionery has a great variety of pastries, of which we want to show you some examples, which you can enjoy in any restaurant or pastry shop in the city.
- Cordoban cake. This recipe is made up of a puff pastry base with the most traditional ingredients of the province, the most popular filling being angel hair, a candy made from fruit pulp. In general, the three main ingredients with which this sweet is made are pumpkins, cucumbers and cayote, and it is usually covered with pieces of toasted almonds and cinnamon.
- Pestiños. The pestiños are another of the sweets that are made in bakeries and restaurants in an artisanal way. It is a dough that is molded and fried and then passed through sugar, it is a perfect complement for these days where the cold takes center stage, and that can be accompanied with a glass of good muscatel wine.
- Alfajores. And of course, we could not forget the alfajores. This dessert, typically Andalusian, of Arab origin (not in vain its name comes from the Spanish Arabic “al-hasú” which means ‘the filling”) is made mainly of honey, hazelnuts, almonds and spices, and it is the perfect end for any meal.
Of course, these recipes are just a small sample of Cordoba’s gastronomy. Our city is full of establishments that can offer you all kinds of dishes, both the most classic and the most innovative, which will make your stay in Cordoba a true “delight”. Vitium, located in the heart of the historic center, is the perfect starting point to begin your route through the city, and enjoy the best gastronomic experience.
Cordoba and Vitium await you this autumn.