During Lent and Holy Week, there are establishments in Mijas that offer perfect menu for this time of the year. The Maruha restaurant in Las Lagunas offers: 'potaje de vigilia' (Lenten stew) and, for dessert, Easter flowers. Take note because the customs should be maintained.
- Alicia Rojas, cocinera y socia del restaurante, posa ante nuestras cámaras.
- MICAELA FERNÁNDEZ
In the kitchen it smells so good. The chef and partner of the restaurant, Alicia Rojas, is preparing the main dish. "It's a Lenten stew, with a stir-fry of tomato, pepper, onion, leek, celery, chopped carrot, potatoes, chard and cod, which is added at the end to make it more tender". "Here you eat as if you were eating at home, but without having to cook", says one of the partners of the establishment, Raúl Rodríguez, "we are very happy with the reception we are having in the neighbourhood".
- Alicia Rojas y Raúl Rodríguez, socios del restaurante, en el interior del mismo.
- MICAELA FERNÁNDEZ
Easter flowers
While the stew is cooking, Alicia is already preparing the dessert. "I'm making a typical Easter dessert, in fact its name is 'Flor de Semana Santa' (Easter Flower) and it's a dough made with flour, milk and eggs, it is similar to 'churros'. The dough is put into a mould, which has to be very hot, and fried in sunflower oil", she explains.
- En Maruha se cocina al estilo tradicional y tiene una carta, con un plato del día, que se va adaptando a lo que demanden los comensales.
- MICAELA FERNÁNDEZ
"A delicious dessert, easy and quick to make" and, moreover, with an exquisite presentation. Rojas also offers more options for those who don't eat meat at Easter: "Our menu has many dishes, for example, we have a very tasty 'gazpachuelo' that is very successful, and for dessert, we make custard, rice pudding, 'tocino de cielo' and also a dessert that is very unusual in other places, which is pears in red wine", says the chef, who claims to have spent her whole life in the kitchen. "Above all, I learnt from my maternal grandmother", Alicia confessed.
Over a low heat
Maruha cooks in the traditional style and has a menu, with a dish of the day, which is adapted to the demands of the diners. "We specialise in fish, but we also have a wide range of meats because that's what our customers demand, and here the customer is the boss", remarked Rodríguez. In short, at the Maruha restaurant they cook over a low heat, as our grandmothers have always done.
- El restaurante está en la calle Antonio Machado de Las Lagunas.
- MICAELA FERNÁNDEZ
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