Local restaurants offer many interesting pastries that tourists will not likely find in other countries of the world. Calentita is one of the most popular types of local bread. It contains chickpea flour, salt, pepper, olive oil, and water. This bread was made for the first time yet at the beginning of the 20th century.
Local restaurants and cafes offer a very interesting sweet pastry called Bollo de Hornasso that is somewhat reminiscent of traditional Spanish Hornasso buns. This is a traditional Christmas delight – small round shaped buns taste particularly delicious. Due to popularity, local cafes started offering Bollo de Hornasso not only during the holiday season.
Original meat dishes are also widespread in restaurants of Gibraltar. Here it is important to mention Rolitos. This dish contains slices of beef with various fillings inside. Such beef rolls are first stewed in wine and then roasted in a frying pan. The traditional filling for this dish includes olives, eggs, bacon, and various vegetables with spices. Local people have borrowed this recipe from the English people. In the UK, these nutritious meat rolls are famous as Beef Olives.
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