MÁLAGA FOOD NEWS: ANGULAS Why the Spanish delicacy is without doubt one of the costliest meals in Spain
The Angulas when alive, are clear and slimy, slithering and squirming like tiny snakes. When cooked, they flip opaque and resemble limp, useless worms, besides they’re white with two tiny black dots for eyes. They don’t style of a lot in any respect, which is unusual as a result of they’re astronomically costly, commanding as much as 1,000 euros a kilo. The standard recipe (a la Bilbaína) requires frying garlic and sizzling peppers in plenty of olive oil after which including Angulas, a certain method to overpower their gentle flavour.
Eels dwell in freshwater, however they will journey over land for lengthy distances. On the age of about 10, they swim downstream in rivers throughout Europe to the Atlantic Ocean and discover their method to the Sargasso Sea. They then spawn and die, and their hatch-lings drift on the Gulf Stream currents in direction of Europe, a journey that takes at the least two years. When the Angulas lastly arrive on Spain’s Atlantic shores, fisherman utilizing scoop nets are ready for them. The season begins in November, and the perfect time to catch them is in the course of the coldest, blackest, rainiest nights when the tide is powerful and the water is tough.
So it’s possible to see why the Angulas are so costly when the harvesting course of takes so lengthy and the season is so quick. Exclusivity has at all times performed a job in gastronomy, and as at all times some clients are ready to pay for this.
