Name: Summer vegetables with goat cheese (Alboronía con queso de cabra)
Yield: Serves 4 (generously)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced; 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil; 1 quince, cored and cut into chunks (optional); 2 medium zucchinis, chopped; 3½ oz (100 g) cylindrical goat cheese, sliced; 7 oz (200 g) pumpkin, peeled and cut into chunks; 1 onion, finely chopped; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ¼ cup (¾ oz/50 g) chopped tomatoes, with their juice; ¼ cup (60 ml) clear honey; 3 eggplants, peeled and cut into chunks; 1 green bell pepper, seeded, deribbed, and finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4
(generously)

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Andaluz

By Fiona Dunlop

Published 2023

About

It makes absolute sense for this Andalusian classic to be served by its eponymous tapas bar. Allegedly, the dish was cooked to great applause for the Caliph Abder Rahman II in 9th-century Córdoba, obviously without New World tomatoes and peppers. One legend maintains that Ziryab, that medieval multi-tasker, originally prepared it in his native Baghdad for the princess Alburan, thus it was dubbed Alburaniy