Casas rurales

Gastronomy
 

The alpujarreña’s kitchen is based on the variety and wealth of Earth products, such as fruits and vegetables, cereals, choto, almonds, maize, garlic, hinojo, honey, green bean. One is a simple, natural and flavorful kitchen, with a great variety of native plates of quality that make the alpujarreña’s gastronomy an attractiveness in itself for the ones who approach the region in general. The typical dish from the towns are the pot of hinojos, gachas of "garlic cuemao" and gachas of broth colorao, guisaillo matancero, the potaje of chestnuts, the doughnuts... and great variety of exquisite candies of morisco origin. Next to these native dishes the pig is an emblematic product, the popularity of the rite of the slaughter in the Alpujarra shows its importance in the ham’s production and Earth’s sausage.