Gastronomic San Isidro

San Isidro Festivities, The festivities celebrated every year around May 15 and that every year takes place in the neighborhood of San Isidro in Carabanchel, although each year are opening more scenarios for these festivities. In them you can enjoy pilgrimages, festivals, attractions, traditional shows, concerts, among others. This year it will be held from May 12 to 15.

It is a holiday in which the locals and visitors gather to enjoy a “picnic” in La Pradera de San Isidro, and in the streets aldeañas, where the most usual thing is to see how they enjoy a potato omelette accompanied by a “limonada madrileña" (lemonade from Madrid)”(which includes wine, lemon, sugar and chopped fruit) and the good weather that many also take advantage of this time of the year to sunbathe in Madrid Río.

During the San Isidro festival, other more typical dishes are also tasted, such as the scrambled eggs with ham, the barbecues of different sausages, blood sausages, chops, sausages, sausages, also ins and outs (mesentery of the lamb, a part of the hen, comes from gizzards or buttons that are cut into pieces and each one, is an entanglement that when they are fried they remain curled and small) and hens (tripe and intestines of lamb and other animals whose consumption is almost exclusive to Madrid).

Nor could we miss the Madrid stew, the typical stew of the capital. But, in addition, Madrid adds to its gastronomy at this time of the year, the paella that they produce in enormous quantities, many times
It is possible to taste it free of charge since they are given out for tasting at key points in the venues where they are held.
celebrate the holidays. To this we must add, that we are in the month of the Oxtail, which can be tasted throughout the month in different specialized restaurants.

And for those with a sweet tooth, the wide variety of sweets on offer at the stands, the doughnuts of all possible colors and flavors that you can find. You will be able to choose between and the “foolish,those that are not bathed, those that are ”lists”, coated with powdered sugar, the most typical in yellow. Santa Clara, coated with dry meringue, mostly white, and the French breaded with almond granules.