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Spanish Sunday dinners

Spanish home cooking is short ingredient lists and good raw material: olive oil, garlic, pimentón, whatever came off the boat. Rice dishes get the attention, but the everyday cooking is simpler than paella — a piece of fish, a pan of potatoes, something cured on the side. The plans here keep the Spanish habit of letting one very good ingredient be the point of the dish.

15 plans in the Sunday Gallery.

What Spanish plans look like

Most common mains

  • fish4
  • pork3
  • shellfish3
  • egg2
  • beef1

How they're cooked

  • Pan-seared5
  • Stewed4
  • Roasted3
  • Braised2
  • Baked1

Diets they fit

  • Nut-free8
  • Pescatarian6
  • Dairy-free5
  • No pork, no alcohol3
  • Gluten-free2

The plans

How Spanish dinners here are cooked

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