Botillo

Botillo
When you move to a new place and want to try out their specialized cuisine, you can’t be picky.

Here in our valley, El Bierzo, a famous meal is Botillo. It is meat-stuffed pork intestines. “What meat is stuffed in there?” you may ask. That, my friend, is a good question. But as a connoisseur of hotdogs, I don’t worry about it too much.
I do know that something this good isn’t just whipped up in an afternoon. The process to make botillo is at least five days.
We are so proud of it here that one nearby village has a large statute in commemoration.

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