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Los Montes Dish

The typical combined dish acquires another level in Malaga with the Plato de los Montes. It is the star dish in the traditional and numerous roadside sales of our region, especially in the area of the Carretera del Colmenar, better known as Carretera de los Montes de Málaga. A classic of Malaga’s gastronomy, hearty and generous portion, which carries lomo en manteca “colorá”, fried potatoes, egg, chorizo, blood sausage and fried peppers. Sometimes it is even accompanied by crumbs.

Origin

To discover the origin of Plato de los Montes de Málaga we have to go back to the 30’s when the muleteers -the people in charge of transporting goods by donkey through the mountains of the province- stopped at the inns and needed to stock up on ingredients that would provide the necessary energy to combat the cold and the fatigue of the road and endure the long days of work.

Nowadays it is a traditional dish to have on Sundays, with friends and family and especially recommended for the autumn and winter season, when generous and more energetic dishes are desired.

Peculiarities

Its most common name is Plato de los Montes but, depending on the area of the province of Malaga where we are, we can find it with other names such as plato campero, plato serrano, plato chorreño, plato de Coscojal, sartená de Castaña or pelona de lomo.

Ingredients and recipe

A simple recipe, with basic and traditional ingredients in the Malaga pantry that never disappoints. Perfect to recharge your batteries after a day of hiking in the Malaga Mountains or to combat and brighten up the coldest and grayest days of autumn or winter thanks to its caloric contribution.

The only difficulty lies in the lomo en manteca “colorá”, which you can prepare at home in advance or buy it already made and packaged -you can find it without problems in butcher’s shops and stores selling Malaga products-. The result of the traditional pig slaughter, lomo en manteca is typical in many Andalusian villages and the basis of many other recipes of our land.

To top it off, accompany your Plato de los Montes with some “aliñás” olives and a good sweet wine from Malaga.

You will need:

Pork loin in butter “colorá”

Potatoes

Eggs

Chorizo

Blood sausage

Green peppers

Extra virgin olive oil

Salt

  1. Peel, cut and fry the potatoes in plenty of olive oil and set aside. We are now going to salt and fry the green peppers -you can make a side cut to prevent them from jumping in the pan-. Next, fry the skinless chorizos and the blood sausage.
  2. We continue making a fried egg, making sure that it is just right so that we can dip a good piece of bread in its yolk. Serve with the fried potatoes -on a bed or on the side-, the peppers, chorizo, black pudding and fried egg and add our portion of lomo en manteca.

5 establecimientos donde probar el Plato de Los Montes 

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