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4. Croquetes
A perennial favourite are croquettes; tasty fried morsels of bechamel, usually
with ham, chicken or cod.
5. Musclos o Escopinyes
Sample Barcelona's fruits of the sea with tapas of tasty mussels or cockles.
6. Truita de Patates
The most common tapas dish is this thick potato omelette, often topped with
alioli
.
7. Ensaladilla Russa
This “Russian salad” includes potatoes, onions, tuna (and often peas, carrots
and other vegetables), all generously enveloped in mayonnaise.
8. Gambes al'allet
An appetizing dish of fried prawns (shrimp) coated in garlic and olive oil.
9. Pernil Serra
Cured ham is a Spanish obsession. The best, and most expensive, is Ex-
tremadura's speciality, Jabugo.
10. Fuet
Embotits
(Catalansausages)includetheever-popular
fuet
,adry,flavourfulvari-
ety, most famously produced in the Catalonian town of Vic.
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