Ham with pineapple

Ingredients:

• 1,5kg of ham
• 175g brown sugar
• 1kg pineapple
• 100ml. pineapple juice
• 60ml jerez
• Cloves spice

Directions:

1. Score the rind of the ham with a diamond pattern.
2. Place it in a roasting pan and cover with the sugar.
3. Coat it with the pineapple juice.
4. Pre-heat oven to 180ºC.
5. Slide the pineapple. 
6. Grill it 30min, bathing with jerez and arrange pineapple slices with cloves over the outside of the ham.
7. Slide the ham and serve ham slice with pineapple ring. 
8. You can add cheese, if you want.

And enjoy!

Homemade croquettes

Ingredients:

• 50 g butter
• 50 g flour
• 750 ml milk
• 2 eggs
• 100 g chopped jamón
• sunflower oil
• breadcrumbs
• salt

Preparation:

1. Make the bechamel.
2. When the mixture becomes silky smooth, stir in the jamón and one teaspoon of salt, and mix.
3. Pour the bechamel in a glass plate and let cold for 2h.
4. Lightly flour the palms of your hands and for each croquette shape 1½ tablespoons of the chilled mixture into a ball.
5. Dip them in  beaten egg and breadcrumbs.
6. Lower them into the hot oil and cook until crisp and lightly golden-brown. 
7. Set them aside on plenty of kitchen paper to drain the excess oil. 
8. Serve while they are still hot.

And enjoy!

Castilian Garlic Soup

Ingredients:

• 100ml of olive oil
• 6 cloves garlic slices
• 30 slices white bread yesterday
• 250 grams of diced jamón
• 250 grams of diced chorizo
• 1 tablespoon spanish sweet paprika
• 8 cups of ham bones broth
• 6 eggs

 (6 persons)

Preparation:

1. Fill a pot with water to ham bone and cook for one 30 'approx.
2. Preferably in a clay pot, add oil and garlic until golden brown, then add the bread, jamón and chorizo and let stirring.
3. When bread is toasted, add the paprika  and saute for a minute. Add the ham bones broth. 
4. Beware paprika burns very fast, and burnt tastes bitter.
5. Cook for 5 minutes.
6. Then, we can frying or poaching eggs and incorporate them into every pot; or put the eggs inside of each of the pans and introduce the oven 2 minutes.

And enjoy!!