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Pork and beef meatballs poached in a pale sauce of ground almonds, saffron, garlic and fried bread, thickened by the nuts rather than by flour. A direct survivor of the Andalusi kitchen.
Almond-thickened sauces are one of the clearest inheritances the caliphate left in Córdoba's cooking. Before roux and before cream, kitchens here thickened liquid by pounding fried bread and blanched almonds in a mortar with saffron and garlic, a technique that runs through medieval Andalusi manuscripts and survives on tabernas cartas today. The same base sauce carries meatballs, chicken, salt cod or hard-boiled eggs depending on the house. Ermita de la Candelaria, cooking in a converted hermitage, keeps the meatball version on its carta as a house plate.
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Ermita de la Candelaria cooks inside a converted hermitage in Córdoba, almond-sauce meatballs and honeyed aubergine under a Sol from the Repsol guide.
OrderThe albóndigas in almond sauce, a direct descendant of the Andalusi kitchen.
TipThe building is a former chapel, so tables are few; book a midweek lunch if you want the easiest table.
Taberna Regina keeps a corner of Plaza de Regina in Córdoba, one of the houses on the city's historic-taberna register, pouring Montilla-Moriles.
OrderAn amontillado with a plate of whatever the bar is frying.
TipThe midday service runs Wednesday to Sunday and the only dinner sittings are Friday and Saturday, so plan an evening visit for the weekend.
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