No Cook Tapas Box

Spain grows more than twice as many olives as the next largest global producer and processes them into olive oil and table olives. There are a huge number of olive varieties amongst which the most popular table varieties include Manzanilla, Verdial and Picual. These Gordal olives are green, crisp and fleshy with a touch of heat from the guindilla chillies in the marinade. Great Taste Award Winner 2020:  "These large, beautifully green olives are tangy and delicious. The brine has a bright, acetic aroma and the piquancy of the peppers fills the air. The flesh is firm, with a notably buttery texture for a pitted olive and the gentle salinity lifts the natural sweetness. The heat from the peppers is gentle but builds into a fiery finish that is long lasting. A delicious easy to eat olive." Also available in a 600g tin and 2kg tin for parties. Or try the new recipe Gordal in a resealable jar - slightly more spice and a clean flavour.   Please be aware the tins are fragile and can experience dents in transit. We will only refund or replace any dented tins if the product has been compromised or the tin is leaking.

Creamy torta-style cheese. Full bodied with balanced bitterness. Try spreading on toast. Winner: Silver at the World Cheese Awards 2023 Winner: Gold at the World Cheese Awards 2024 There is a tradition in South West Spain, and over the border in Portugal, of making sheep's milk cheeses called "torta" using thistle rennet, resulting in full flavoured cheeses with a soft, sometimes liquid interior. Finca Pascualete is an interesting example of this unique style of cheese. La Retorta has a smooth, dense and creamy texture and ochre, pungent rind with aromas of mustard and dry hay. Rich in flavour with a pleasant bitterness at the finish. Learn more about this unique cheese, watch the video here. Net weight: Available in two variants: approx. 160g and approx. 480g

Embutidos Alejandro buy their pork from a small number of pig farmers, with whom they have worked for many years, producing excellent meat. Their coarse cut, mildly spiced, cured chorizo Magno is one of their iconic products: cured for a minimum of 60 days it is a great chorizo, moist, with an excellent balance of lean and fat and a clean, lingering flavour.

Hot & spicy with vinegar bite. Balanced yet dramatic. Spicy sauce made with "La Vera" smoked peppers. A condiment for any type of food. It can be used to flavour main dishes or as an accompaniment to side dishes. Sprinkle a few drops of smoked hot sauce on pizza, pasta, stir fries, salad, soup or burgers.

Guindilla peppers are sharp and piquant and are normally eaten as a tapa with other encurtidos. These pickles are the perfect accompaniment to our ranges of cheeses, charcuterie and pates. They also make an excellent pizza topping, a brilliant addition to a cheese sandwich or bring a refreshing piquancy to rich foods such as a terrine or a plate of charcuterie. Also delicious with Navarrico black beans.

These manzanilla olives are green, with a firm and meaty texture and are slightly spicy with a lightly bitter, briny flavour. Marinated with guindilla chillies to add spiciness. Manzanilla are the most popular olive in Spain.  Serving suggestion: The perfect snack eaten on their own or they can also be added to salads, cocktails and dressings. *Please be aware the tins are fragile and can experience dents in transit. They are still delicious to eat. We will therefore not refund or replace any dented tins unless the product has been compromised or the tin is leaking.

This simple quince spread is made from quinces (58%) and sugar and nothing more, all of them sourced in Spain. It can be used as a spread like a jam, add sweetness to savoury recipes or, in the classic Spanish tradition, be eaten with Manchego cheese.

Bakeries in Galicia have long made products that would last on board of ships. Dried biscuits containing very little water were amongst the foods which were taken on most voyages. These traditional biscuits are still made, but now primarily to taste good. Round and crunchy, these biscuits have a mild taste of olive oil.

Earthy toffee sweetness of acorns. Savoury undertone. Hints of fruitiness. Lingering intensity. The Brindisa bellota ham is made from pigs of 75% iberico breed that have fattened up on acorns on the dehesa of Extremadura for 10-12 weeks at the end of their lives. The hams are then expertly cured in Guijuelo, Salamanca for between 30 and 36 months The ham has a sweet and nutty aroma with an excellent balance between the savoury and nutty elements and a long, complex finish.  The ham in this pack has been hand-carved by a master carver. 

Crispy and light Spanish style potato crisps. The only ingredients are high quality potatoes, extra virgin olive oil and salt (also contains sunflower oil). Great with boquerones and gordal olives.

Complex, savoury. Hints of caramel, malted cereal. Masterful Manchego. As good as it gets. Our 1605 Manchego is made at the Sierra la Solana estate, an area of about 350 hectares, which includes vineyards, almond plantations and olive groves, 150km south of Madrid. Here you can find a traditional rustic Mediterranean vegetation as well as a harsh and extreme climatic environment, ideal for the native Manchega sheep to roam about. The result is clean, rich-tasting milk with a sweet and malted cereal finish which translate into an elegant, fruity, intense flavours with a long finish. The aroma of this 5-month-matured Manchego is of butter and cereal. The paste is pale ivory, semi-hard and dense; the flavours are of sweet and rich sheep’s milk and raw almonds. It has a long, clean finish. Net weight: 230g wedge

Meaty, long, pinky-brown anchovy fillets. Visually excellent and superb to eat: well balanced. Ortiz buy their Cantabrian anchovies daily from auctions along the north coast of Spain and process them the same day. They are put into salt for a period of 6-12 months depending on the size of the fish. When ready, they are gently washed, to remove excess salt, and the fish are trimmed and filleted by hand.

These top quality mussels are cultivated in the Galician estuaries in floating platforms called bateas. From the Ria de Arousa, the largest mussel farm in the world, they are larger and meatier than most. To prepare them to gourmet standards their hairs are cut with scissors to get a smoother mussel. They are boiled and then fried before being hand packed in a gentle, very fine, marinade made from fresh ingredients. These mussels are large and meaty and the escabeche is very gentle, warm with a slight sharp finish. The simplest way to serve these is to top a Sarriegui crisp with a mussel and down it in one or just with a piece of freshly baked sour dough. From the book "Brindisa - The True Food of Spain": "To add a touch of freshness and colour, drain the mussels from their tin, keeping the marinade to one side. Finely chop 1 medium ripe tomato, 1/4 medium red pepper and the white of spring onion and mix into the marinade. Put the mussels back in the tin and spoon the marinade over the top." A 1-star Great Taste Awards winner in 2024