The best Russian salad of 2020 is in La Caleta de Vélez (Málaga)

Gastronomy

The Chinchín Puerto restaurant has been the winner of the III National Championship, held within the San Sebastián Gastronomika congress

Within the enormous variety and richness of Spanish gastronomy, there are three dishes that combine practically all the regions of the country, although in each one of them they are prepared differently.

They are the potato omelette, the croquettes and, of course, the Russian salad.

The latter even has a National Championship to choose the best of the year, which in just one three-year period has become one of the stars of the San Sebastián Gastronomika congress program.

In the third edition, in which nine candidates from all over Spain participated,

, located in the Costa del Sol town of La Caleta de Vélez.

It is the

, after

in the capital of the province

won in 2019

.

It should be remembered that in the first edition, in 2018, it won

, from Barcelona.

In an edition as strange as everything that is happening in this deplorable 2020, the participants in the contest have had to wait more than two

.

Because the applicants presented their proposals to the jury (made up of food critics and chefs such as Pedro Subijana, Elena Arzak and Juanjo López Bedmar) at the end of August and until Tuesday, October 6, the notary who jealously guarded the results has not made them public.

The

salad

is one of the stars of a restaurant founded in 2015 by Sebastián Martín and Lourdes Villalobos that is fundamentally committed to

, filtered by the nearby La Caleta de Vélez fish market, one of the most important of Andalusia.

Lourdes Villalobos and Belén Abad, responsible for the kitchen, prepare their

: potatoes grown in sand that are boiled in sea water with their own skin, prawns, a mayonnaise prepared with oil in which the heads have been candied of the prawns themselves and coloraíllos tails (small shrimp) and, attention, raw onion (barely perceptible)

It is estimated that this award will cause, as has already been proven, that hundreds of people travel to the restaurant to taste the salad, which justifies the excitement of Lourdes and Belén when they received the news telematically.

And, since they are there, those who are going to try it will do more than good to also go for the

that the farmer Marcos Fernández selects personally and daily.

According to the criteria of

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