This is a very popular pintxo in the Basque country, the earthy mushrooms work well with the nutty ibérico ham and the garlic oil flavoured with sherry vinegar lifts the whole pintxo up. You can also serve the garlic mushrooms as a tapa with toasted bread!

Txaka are crab sticks, also known as surimi sticks, widely used in pintxo recipes across the Basque country. It is a product that uses starch and white fish meat (surimi) that has been shaped and cured to resemble the leg meat of snow crab or Japanese spider crab. Mixed with mayonnaise and served on a slice of toasted baguette bread, this is a classic Basque pintxo that is easy and quick to prepare.

Pintxos are small bites popular in Basque Country. Usually served ready to eat at the bar, here are 12 of the best pintxos we found in San Sebastian and Bilbao, Spain. Read more at UrbanBlissLife.com.

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La Gilda can be categorised as the first ever Basque pintxo. It’s strong, salty and pickled flavour bursts in your mouth like no other. A pintxo, that no matter where you go within the Basque Country, you will find it in most of bars. The pintxo was created in the 1940s by brothers Blas and Antxon Vallés in their newly opened Bar Casa Vallés in San Sebastian where wine was served with plates of olives, guindilla peppers or salted anchovies. It is down to a regular customer called Joaquín…

Pinchos, or pintxos, are a Spanish snack related to tapas, but usually served on bread and skewered with toothpicks to keep the toppings on the bread.

It's hard to go more Spanish than this: Eggs, chorizo, bread!

Basque Country is home to the pintxo, a spin on the Spanish tapa. Usually, this involves fresh local ingredients arranged on bread, but the only limit to pintxos are the chef's imagination and the idea that you should be able to eat one with a drink in yo

Spanish pintxos are simple finger food tapas that have lots of scope for variety. Get some inspiration, try some easy pintxos recipes and enjoy these tasty bites at home.