Patronato de Turismo

LA GOMERA has a great tradition gastronomic. The excellence of the sea surrounding the Island, their crops individuals and their own ways are the ingredients of your kitchen, simple and flavorful. Typical dishes that they expect its discovery in the houses of meals of peoples. As the potaje of cress, served in dishes of wood sabina or aceviño. A curiosity culinary only.OR cheese, led by three races of goats prehispanic, which is prepared craftsmen and some included considered the best queso fresco of the world.The inhabitants of La Gomera, from its cheese, create the almogrote. Butter, oil, garlic, pepper, salt, and sometimes tomato, involved in drafting.The result is a paste spicy but delicious spreads in bread or potatoes. Black or beautiful, potatoes were brought to America several centuries ago.Today, cultivated in the traditional way, are transformed into aunténticas delicacies for the most demanding palate. With them, and with the old, a fish of peculiar flavor that lives on the coast of the Island, prepares a succulent dish of the entire Canary Islands.

PALM HONEY

But the queen of the kitchen gomera is honey de palma. Syrup extracted from the palm tree canariense, of which there are more than 100,000 copies in La Gomera, boiled and thickened, will serve as raw material for a tradition in desserts. It was also used in the development of cocktails or served with cheese or gofio, which is wheat flour or roasted corn.