Migas (Spanish pronunciation: ['mi?as]) ("crumbs" in English) is the name used for an ancient dish in Spanish and Portuguese cuisines.
The same name is used for a different dish in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisines.
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Spanish migas
Migas is a traditional dish in Spanish cuisine. Originally a breakfast dish that made use of leftover bread or tortas, today migas is a fashionable first course served for lunch and dinner in restaurants in Spain.
The ingredients of migas vary across the provinces of Spain.
In Extremadura, this dish includes day-old bread soaked in water, garlic, paprika, and olive oil, and contains spinach or alfalfa, often served with pan-fried pork ribs. In Teruel, Aragon, migas includes chorizo and bacon, and is often served with grapes.
In La Mancha, migas manchegas is a more elaborate preparation using basically the same ingredients as Aragonese migas.
In Almería and Murcia, in southeastern Spain, migas is similar to North African couscous, using flour and water, but no bread. Preparations commonly include a variety of ingredients, including fish. In Almería it is traditional to cook them when it rains.
Portuguese migas
Migas is also a traditional dish in Portuguese cuisine. It is usually made with leftover bread, either wheat bread traditionally associated with the Alentejo region in Southern Portugal, or corn bread as used in Beira. In Alentejo migas can also be made with potatoes (Migas de Batata) and no bread is included.
Garlic and olive oil are always an ingredient. Other ingredients such as pork meat drippings, wild asparagus, tomato, and seasonings such red pepper paste and fresh coriander are usually included in Alentejo, while in Beira the other ingredients typically are cooked kale cut in caldo verde style, cooked beans (pinto or kidney beans) and sometimes cooked rice.
Migas usually accompanies meats or other main dishes.
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Mexican migas
In different areas of Mexico, migas is a traditional breakfast dish consisting of corn tortilla strips fried on a pan or griddle until almost crispy, to which eggs are then added to create a scrambled egg/fried tortilla mixture. This preparation makes use of hardened corn tortillas left over from previous meals. Chilaquiles is a similar meal that substitutes salsa for eggs during cooking. Both are hearty, inexpensive working-class breakfast meals.
Mexico City migas
Mexico City also has its own version of migas. It is a garlic soup which is thickened with sliced day-old bolillos. It is usually flavored with pork shanks, ham bones, epazote, oregano and different types of dried chillies. A raw egg is usually added to each plate when served and it is slowly cooked by the warm soup, similar to egg drop soup. It is a very popular dish in fondas around downtown Mexico city, especially in Tepito.
Tex-Mex migas
There is also a Tex-Mex variation of Mexican migas. This includes additional ingredients, such as diced onions, sliced chile peppers, diced fresh tomatoes, or cheese, as well as various spices and condiments (e.g., salsa or pico de gallo).
Migas is typically served with refried beans, and corn or flour tortillas may be used to enfold all of the ingredients into tacos. In some areas, it may have been traditionally eaten during Lent.
Another common variation is to add chorizo to the standard ingredients.
See also
- Acquacotta
- Panzanella
- Gachas
- Torta de gazpacho
- Chilaquiles, another Mexican dish based on cooking tortillas
- Matzah brei, a somewhat similar Ashkenazi breakfast dish in which matzoh is used instead of tortillas
- Kothu Parotta, a somewhat similar dish popular in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in Tamil-speaking areas of Sri Lanka
- French toast
- List of Portuguese dishes
- Sandwiches de miga, Argentine sandwiches, of which miga refers to the crustless bread
- Fit-fit or fir-fir - a spicy breakfast dish in Ethiopia and Eritrea made with shredded flatbread and clarified butter
References
External links
- Media related to Migas at Wikimedia Commons
- Recipe for Tex-Mex migas
- Traditional recipe of migas. Take a taste of Andalucia, Spain
Source of article : Wikipedia
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