What is your position in Marina Suites and how long have you been working in it?Actually, I am the executive chef of Marina Suites and I have been working for the Satocan group since 1990.
What do you like most of the Canarian Gastronomy?
The Canarian food has been elaborated along several centuries, and has been always based on basic but excellent raw materials such as vegetables, fruits, meat, fish and grain, which have been combined in many different ways, obtaining wonderful recipes like the “papas arrugadas (small potatoes boiled in their jackets)” or “sancocho canario (salt fish)”. The special thing about the Canarian food is the fact that you are able to obtain many different meals with little ingredients and normally, they are very easy to prepare.
I also love to prepare the typical Canarian desserts, which thank to lay receipts, they take out an excellent result to the land products like for example crushed and boiled corn, the bienmesabe, brown sugar from La Palma, the cottage cheese from La Gomera, the sponge cakes of Moya in Gran Canaria, or the cheesecakes from La Gomera.
Could you recommend us a typical Canarian meal and its receipt?
There are many wonderful Canarian meals which I can think of, but I love specially one: “Rabbit in Salmorejo” which is a very typical Canarian dish.
Ingredients for 4 people
1 Rabbit (2.5-3lbs)
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
Coarse Sea Salt to taste
1 clove of garlic
1 medium-hot pepper, such as Anaheim
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp rosemary
1 bay leaf
1 Tbsp Spanish sweet paprika
1 cup (8 oz of good) white wine (Malvasía for example).
2 Spoons of vinegar
1/4 Cup of water
1 little onion
Preparation:
Cut the rabbit into small pieces, salt it and place into a shallow baking dish. Peel the garlic cloves. Cut pepper into several pieces, removing seeds and veins.
Put thyme, rosemary, paprika, white wine, vinegar and pepper into the food processor and whirl. Pour mixture over the rabbit. Cover dish and allow rabbit to marinate in the refrigerator for 3 or 4 hours approximately.
When ready to cook, pour the olive oil into a heavy-bottom frying pan and heat on medium. Take the rabbit pieces out of baking dish and fry them in a pan, making sure to brown on all sides, (about 15 minutes). Add more oil if necessary. When cooked, remove from the pan and place it on a plate.
Pour the marinade into the same frying pan as well as the onion and some more garlic and keep it simmering. Return the rabbit pieces to the pan and continue to simmer for approximately 10 minutes.
Serve the rabbit with salmorejo sauce over the top and accompany with fried or roasted potatoes.
