Our Trip Specialist for our Mallorca tour is the venerable Alessandro Allegro. Below, he presents one of his culinary favourites – Tumbet – alongside his favourite Mallorquin tipple.
Alessandro says “The tumbet is an outstanding example of traditional Mallorcan food. A dish cooked with fresh seasonal vegetables from Mallorca’s diverse garden. A tasty dish that leaves no one indifferent and that will delight vegetable lovers. Its preparation is based on frying eggplants, potatoes, peppers and adding a tomato sauce. The tumbet can be eaten alone or as an accompaniment to a meat or fish dish, or even with two fried eggs.”
The Tumbet – A Summer delight
Ingredients for 6 persons
6 potatoes
3 aubergines
3 courgettes
3 red peppers
4 garlic cloves
Tomato sauce
1 laurel leaf in each aubergine frying
Salt
Preparation
– Peel the potatoes and cut into slices. Put it in salted water
– Cut the aubergines into slices and put it into salted water.
– Do the same with the courgettes.
– Then cut the red peppers into pieces.
– Fry the potatoes (with the garlic cloves), aubergines (with bay leaf), courgettes and peppers, each separately. Place all the slices in layers in a casserole or similar.
– Cover the total frying with tomato sauce that you will have to do separately.
– The tradition wants that you have to lay the potatoes first, then the aubergines, followed by the courgettes and red peppers, finally covered by the home made tomato sauce.
Bon profit! (in Majorcan language enjoy your meal )
And the wine accompaniment: Anime Negre
Alessandro says “Anime Negre is the wine most symbolic of the homonymous winery, a wine in which we discover the effort and sacrifices of many years by Miquel Àngel Cerdá & Pere Obrador in understand the callet grape, reinforcing its typicity and achieving each time a wine more expressive, alive and balanced. It is a very singular wine, authentic, mineral, wild and powerful.”
The wine stays for 14 months in new fine-grain French Oak barrels that have a medium to medium long toast, with racking taking place half way through. A further 2 months of stainless steel tank ageing prior to bottling.
Grape Varieties: 95% Callet, 5% Mantonegro-Fogoneu
The winery Ànima Negra, situated in the south-east of the island of Mallorca makes its wines in the ancient Estate of Son Burguera. This location, close to Felanitx, dates from the 8th Century & counted on since its beginnings with a dependence to make wine, destined at first to supply the demand of those living in this place. This activity has continued to blossom until today and has contributed to form the landscape of the Island, geographically integrated in the Mediterranean, and making wine an emblematic product of our gastronomy.