Habas con jamon is the Granadina broad-bean tapa with diced jamon Trevelez sauteed in olive oil, served warm in a clay cazuela through the broad-bean season.
Where to eat it: 5 restaurants across 1 city.
Habas con jamon is a canonical Sierra Magina tapa using the early broad beans (habas tempranas) that come in February and run through May. The combination of beans, cured ham and olive oil is rural Andalusian cooking that moved into the citys tabernas alongside the free-tapa tradition that took shape between Bodegas Castaneda (1927) and Los Diamantes (1942). The dish is the canonical free tapa at Bodegas Castaneda and Antigua Bodega Castaneda, and it appears across every traditional Granadina menu in spring.
Tip from the editors. Use young broad beans (habas tempranas) in spring; older beans need peeling to remove the outer skin.
This is the TableJourney editorial recipe, modelled on the canonical bistro / counter version. The first place to try the dish in its city of origin is below.
Bodegas Castaneda on Calle Almireceros in Granada runs to 00:30, the citys most reliable late tapeo stop with free tapas and house vermut on tap.
Try: Free tapas with vermut
Tip: The tapas rotation slows after 23:00 but does not stop; the kitchen runs until close.
Antigua Bodega Castaneda on Calle Elvira in Granada runs to midnight with house vermut on tap and Andalusian raciones, a late-tapeo classic.
Try: Vermut and Andalusian raciones
Tip: Two-stop crawl with Bodegas Castaneda around the corner; this one is heavier on raciones.
Los Manueles in Granada is the 1917 tortilla del Sacromonte specialist now in a 500-square-metre Reyes Catolicos flagship, with continuous service all day.
Signature: Tortilla del Sacromonte, Croquetas de jamon, Habas con jamon
Tip: Croquetas are the bar order; the Sacromonte tortilla with offal is the historic plate but ask for the vegetable version if entrails are not your speed.
Chikito in Granada sits where Cafe Alameda hosted Lorca and Manuel de Fallas Rinconcillo circle in the 1920s; Jose Carlos Exposito runs the kitchen.
Tip: Closed Wednesdays; the front bar pours free tapas at lunchtime if you do not want to commit to the dining room.
Mirador de Morayma in Granada is the Albayzin carmen named for Boabdils wife, with terraced gardens facing the Alhambra and a remojon-bacalao menu.
Tip: Closed Sundays and Mondays; book the carmen terrace not the indoor room from May to October.
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