Name: Pinchitos Moruños
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 5 ml/1 tsp paprika; 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 45 ml/3 tbsp olive oil; 15 ml/1 tbsp lemon juice; 2.5 ml/½ tsp dried oregano; salt and ground black pepper; 500 g/1¼ lb lean cubed pork; 2.5 ml/½ tsp coriander seeds; 2.5 ml/½ tsp cumin seeds

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Spanish Grandmother

By Pepita Aris

Published 2013

About

The Moors introduced both skewers and marinated meat to Spain. These little yellow kebabs are a favourite in Andalusia, where many butchers sell the meat ready marinated. The Arab versions used lamb, but pork is used now, because the spicing fits so perfectly.

Ingredients

2.5 ml/½ tsp cumin seeds
2.5 ml/½

Method

Starting a couple of hours in advance, grind the cumin and coriander seeds in a mortar and work in the garlic with a pinch of salt. Add the paprika and oregano and mix in the lemon juice. Stir in the oil.
Cut the pork into small cubes, then skewer them, three or four at a time, on to cocktail sticks (toothpicks). Put the skewered meat in a shallow dish, and pou