# The best traditional dishes of the Region of Murcia

Murcian cooking of market gardens and the Mar Menor, according to Hogarmania, the Hispanic Institute of Murcia and guides to Murcian food.

- 33 votes · 12 items
- Nov 18, 2025 · jaime rodríguez
- https://even.best/en/l/468/the-best-traditional-dishes-of-the-region-of-murcia

## Top 10

1. **Murcian meat pie** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Puff pastry filled with beef, chorizo and boiled egg; made by Murcia's pastry makers since the 17th century.
2. **Marinera** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Breadstick ring with Russian salad and an anchovy on top, the star tapa.
3. **Zarangollo** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Slow-cooked courgette, onion and egg, a tapa in every Murcian bar.
4. **Michirones** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Dried broad beans stewed with ham bone, chorizo and chilli.
5. **Caldero del Mar Menor** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Soupy rice with rockfish and ñora pepper sofrito, served with aioli.
6. **Rice with rabbit and snails** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The inland rice, cooked over vine cuttings.
7. **Pisto murciano** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Tomato, pepper and courgette with egg, from the market gardens.
8. **Olla gitana** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Stew of chickpeas, beans, pumpkin and pear.
9. **Salt-baked gilthead bream** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mar Menor fish baked in a salt crust.
10. **Paparajotes** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Lemon leaves battered and fried with sugar and cinnamon; you don't eat the leaf.
11. **Tocino de cielo de Murcia** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Convent egg-yolk sweet.
12. **Café asiático** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Cartagena coffee with condensed milk, brandy, Licor 43 and cinnamon.

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