Moorish Kebabs

Pinchos Morunos

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    as a tapa
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Anya von Bremzen

Published 2005

  • About

This tapa, found at bars all over Spain, is often singled out as an exemplary fusion dish: a Moorish (moruno) marinade applied to pork, the quintessentially Spanish meat that no Muslim would touch. Though it’s romantic to think that the dish goes back to medieval Arab-Spanish culinary roots, more likely the idea for these brochettes was borrowed from North African immigrants. Either way, the kebabs are wonderful, and taste equally good made with pork, chicken, or lamb. At some bars,