Flamenquín

Rolled Pork Loin with Jamón and Sheep’s Cheese

Preparation info
  • Tapas

    16

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish

Published 2007

  • About

It is unlikely that these well-salted, cigar-shaped sticks of deep-fried pork loin stuffed with jamón and Mahón cheese will ever be awarded a Heart Foundation tick of approval. But then again stranger things have happened.

Flamenquín are very typical Cordovan tapas. They are so popular that they are sold pre-made. Just as butchers here in Australia are awarded ‘best sausage’ or bakers ‘best pie’, there is an annual ceremony in Córdoba for the best flamenquín<