A thick cold tomato-and-bread purée from Antequera, denser than gazpacho, topped with chopped egg, jamón and tuna and eaten almost with a fork.
Where to eat it: 3 restaurants across 1 city.
Porra antequerana comes from the inland town of Antequera, an hour from Málaga, where day labourers pounded stale bread, tomato, garlic and oil into a filling cold cream in a porra or mortar. Thicker and richer than a drinking gazpacho, it is served as a starter or light meal, always crowned with hard-boiled egg, cured ham and flaked tuna. It has become a fixture on Málaga tables through the warm months.
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Common allergens: Gluten, Egg, Fish
Tip from the editors. Use the ripest tomatoes you can find and more bread than feels right: porra should be spoonable, not soupy.
La Casa del Piyayo is a cheap, tucked-away tapas tavern on Málaga's Calle Granada, plating porra antequerana and boquerones by the plate at the counter.
TryPorra antequerana and boquerones
Mesón Mariano has cooked seasonal Andalusian food in central Málaga since 1988, famous for artichokes done several ways and a proper gazpachuelo.
SignatureAlcachofas, Gazpachuelo
Uvedoble is a modern Málaga taberna by the Roman Theatre, plating creative tapas like oxtail brioche and boquerones beside the Alcazaba walls.
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