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Pote Gallego
Pote Gallego is Galicia's winter spoon food: white beans, grelos, potato, and pork cooked low until the greens sweeten, the potatoes roughen the broth, and the pot becomes a full meal.
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Sopas de Tomate Extremeñas
Sopas de tomate are Extremadura's tomato-and-bread soup: a slow garlic, pepper, and tomato sofrito loosened with water, then poured over stale bread until it swells and softens.
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Sopes Mallorquines
Sopes Mallorquines are Mallorca's dry soup: cabbage, garden vegetables, olive oil, and paper-thin pa moreno that drinks the broth until the dish is eaten with a fork, not a spoon.
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Sopa de Farigola (Catalan Thyme and Bread Soup)
Sopa de Farigola is Catalan hillside soup: fried garlic, stale bread, and farigola, thyme, in plain water. Treat the herb gently and the whole bowl tastes clean, green, and old-fashioned in the best way.
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Zurrukutuna Basque Salt-Cod Garlic Bread Soup
Zurrukutuna is Basque cocina de cuchara: salt cod, garlic, sopako bread, and choricero pepper simmered into a thick red soup where the bread must soften without turning pasty.
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Escaldón de Gofio
Escaldón de gofio is Canary Island spoon food: toasted grain flour drinking hot caldo until it turns thick, savory, and steady enough to hold the spoon.
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Sopas Cachorreñas Malagueñas
Sopas Cachorreñas are Málaga's Andaluz bread soup, salt cod and potatoes in a garlic-pimentón broth, finished off the heat with bitter orange so the sour edge stays clean.
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Oliaigua Menorquí
Oliaigua is Menorca's plain spoon food: olive oil, water, summer vegetables, and thin bread. Cook the vegetables slowly, keep the water gentle, and the poor soup turns generous.
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Sopa de Antruejo
Sopa de Antruejo is Extremadura's Carnival bread soup from Aceuchal: pork broth from knuckle, ear, chorizo, and bone poured over day-old bread and egg before Lent begins.
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Caldo Gallego
Caldo Gallego is Galicia in a bowl: bitter grelos, creamy white beans, potato, and a small knob of unto giving depth without turning the broth heavy.
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Porrusalda Vasca
Porrusalda is Basque leek broth, porru and salda, with potatoes broken by the knife so their rough edges thicken the pot. Add bacalao if you have it, and keep the leeks pale and sweet.
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Sopas de Ajo Riojanas
Sopas de ajo Riojanas belong to La Rioja: garlic soup made fuller with leek, tomato, choricero pepper, fresh chorizo, and bread that thickens the red broth without turning it heavy.
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Sopa de Almendras Castellana
Sopa de Almendras is Castilian Nochebuena food: milk, almonds, cinnamon, lemon, and bread, cooked slowly until the bowl turns pale, sweet, and spoon-thick.
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Sopa de Ajo Castellana
Sopa de ajo is Castilian cocina de cuchara: stale bread, garlic, pimentón, and broth turned into supper, with the egg poached right in the soup.
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Gazpachos Manchegos
Gazpachos Manchegos are La Mancha's hot spoon dish: rabbit, partridge, and torn torta cenceña cooked in a hunter's broth until the bread swells, tender but never mushy.
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Sopas Perotas de Álora
Sopas Perotas are Álora's Andaluz bread-and-vegetable soup: pan cateto soaked with potato, asparagus, pepper, and tomato, then rested off the heat so the bread softens without collapsing.
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Ajo Carretero de Soria
Ajo carretero is Soriano, from the pine country of Soria: lamb cooked in a plain garlicky broth, then served the old way, meat first and bread-soaked soup after.
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