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By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:17:42 +0000

As you say, I think the sauce was just a basic tomato as it wasn’t that spicy in total. I mean, the main spice was the chorizo, with a hint of pepper from the black pudding.

By: adventures in

adventures in — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:32:21 +0000

Ahhh.

Morcilla is the black pudding part of that tapas.

The sauce is probably similar to the sauce in patatas bravas which are fiery potatoes.

However, good morcilla itself is slightly spicy, so, it may’ve been just a simple tomato and garlic sauce.

Anyway. A basic bravas sauce involves a bit of garlic, some oil, some salt, some chili and a little paprika, preferably pimenton.

Mangle that to your taste.

If the tapas you ate was named along the lines of Morcilla con tomate, then it’s a basic tomato sauce. Any spice you can taste is in the black pudding.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:47:23 +0000

Ahhh cheers for that. We had it once at a Tapas restaurant in Glasgow and tried to recreate the ‘recipe’ from memory. Wasn’t quite the same (that tomato sauce is the work of the devil!) but it was still damn tasty.

By: adventures in

adventures in — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:19:53 +0000

The “black pudding” tapas is called Morcilla.

I have some here.
And some chorizo.
And other assorted embutido.

I’m right well stocked.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:27:27 +0000

Chorizo and black pudding tapas sound very, very good right now.

Man, I should’ve eaten breakfast today…