# The best traditional dishes of Galicia

The essentials of Galician cooking, from pulpo á feira to empanada and seafood from the rías, according to Guía Repsol and Galician food guides.

- 782 votes · 13 items
- May 16, 2025 · Pau Bravo Fernández
- https://even.best/en/l/320/the-best-traditional-dishes-of-galicia

## Top 12

1. **Pulpo á feira** (95 · ▲97 ▼2) — Boiled octopus with paprika, coarse salt and oil on a wooden plate; O Carballiño has its own festival.
2. **Caldo gallego** (67 · ▲74 ▼7) — Broth of turnip greens or cabbage with beans, potato and pork fat.
3. **Galician empanada** (60 · ▲67 ▼7) — Bread dough pie filled with tuna and peppers, queen scallops, sardines or salt cod with raisins.
4. **Seafood from the rías** (46 · ▲56 ▼10) — Goose barnacles, velvet crabs, spider crabs, clams and mussels from the Rías Baixas.
5. **Lacón con grelos** (42 · ▲52 ▼10) — Boiled pork shoulder with turnip greens, potatoes and chorizo, the carnival dish.
6. **Grilled zamburiñas** (41 · ▲50 ▼9) — Small scallops grilled with garlic and parsley.
7. **Baked scallops** (38 · ▲46 ▼8) — Scallops baked in their shell with onion and ham sofrito.
8. **Raxo con patatas** (37 · ▲47 ▼10) — Marinated pork loin cubes fried with garlic, a tavern tapa.
9. **Cocido gallego** (36 · ▲48 ▼12) — Galician stew with pork shoulder, chorizo, chickpeas, greens and potatoes; Lalín holds a festival.
10. **Padrón peppers** (30 · ▲41 ▼11) — Fried peppers with coarse salt, PDO Pemento de Herbón.
11. **Caldeirada de pescado** (22 · ▲33 ▼11) — Fishermen's fish stew with potatoes and paprika oil.
12. **Filloas** (16 · ▲26 ▼10) — Carnival crêpes, sweet or filled with custard.
13. **Tarta de Santiago** (12 · ▲25 ▼13) — The almond cake with the cross of St James, PGI.

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