Eating quickly, with high quality and delicious flavours from a country is the best thing that can happen to us! I've brought you the best quick meals to get ideas from!
The street food movement has been around for a very long time in almost every country. Street vendors are a kind of gastronomic vanguard of the flavours, ingredients and styles of a given culture. In addition to hot dogs, hamburgers and gyros, which are popular all over the world, you can also find special delicacies from different countries, such as the iron-plate fried flatbread, bread pancakes, giant pancakes or horn cakes in Hungary.
Why is it worth it?
We need simple but good quality ingredients that we can prepare in advance. Vacuum packaging is what helps caterers in this case too, along with refrigeration of course. Guests love pulled pork wrapped in breadcrumbs and flatbreads, fresh roasts or well-seasoned sausages. Most of the restaurants now take vans to the festivals and set up their own stands, thus promoting themselves, guaranteeing that guests will visit them and that they have as wide an audience as possible.
But let's look at the 8 best street food versions in the world.
Slovakia - Gypsy Pecsenye
Usually available in summer and at markets, this heavenly delicacy is very simple, very filling and meaty. A much larger bun than usual is cut in half, but only the familiar watery kind, smeared with mustard, with a little bait added in some cases and the juicy and buttery tender bun baked from the tray. All this is put into a diced paper and you can walk away with it. It's excellent for breakfast or dinner, as an early market staple or before and after a night of revelry.
Portugal - Pão com chouriço
Here too, simplicity and cost-effectiveness prevail. Sausage rolls stuffed in bread dough in a baguette shape. A simple, but sourdough bread dough is kneaded, then 6-8 chorizzo rings are rolled up like a bun and baked. Perfect food at night on the streets, in the dark, sold from huge wicker baskets, covered with a linen cloth to keep it from getting cold. Yes, it's hot food all right, because as it's baked, it's added out in portions and then subdivided in the next 10 minutes. It's cheap, it's good, and it's filling.
Anglia - Fish and chips
Cod is the kind of fish that few people can resist, even if they don't like fish that much. It's served in a crispy beer batter with freshly baked potatoes and maybe a little remoulade sauce. If made with fresh oil, it can even be a healthy dish. The streets of England are full of vendors and bars competing with each other, so there's a good chance of getting a really tasty version in many places. And for dessert, they'll often even pluck a slice of mars after the fish in beer batter, but in a different oil of course.
Spain - Empanadas
’Can we pack two, four or six?’ is all they ask when you ask the vendor for empanadas. The stuffed, crispy, deep-fried pastries are probably already filled with everything edible in the beautiful countryside. The dough is simple and delicious, and the filling is good even if it's just a bit of boiled potatoes and cheese. It can be dipped in a dip, available in a tin in the shops, but it's probably best eaten on the beach on your blanket.
Quiche from France
Go for it! - maybe that's the password here when it comes to a quiche. Crispy buttery pastry in a tart or pie dish. Into this comes lots of egg and cream juices, then lots and lots of toppings. Spinach, ham, cheese, vegetables, fish. Served warm or cold, a nice ’slice of pie’ of this can make a nice lunch if accompanied by a light soup.
Italy - Arrancini
Fried rice balls, both sweet and savoury, and also dressed. Succulent, creamy, crispy on the outside and the grains of rice just crumble in your mouth after a bite. This is the arrancini of which the Italians are justly proud. Cost-effective, simple, easy to prepare in advance and very versatile. .
Croatia - Burek
Bakeries and street vendors offer a wide range of burek, not only for tourists but also for locals. The latter is perhaps the most important, as it is the best way to gain credibility, so that those who know it will return. It is made up of a variety of pasta dishes, which can be filled with cheese, meat, vegetables and fruit. It originated in Turkey but can now be tasted in almost every country in the Balkans. Anyone who has tried it knows how filling it is.
From Turkey - Stuffed mussels
The shells are stuffed with rice, pine nuts, raisins and tied with string. Put them in a large pot of boiling water and boil until the water evaporates. Serve with a sprinkle of parsley, possibly lemon, and oil. It can be eaten with baguette or just on its own.
The truth is that selling street food requires an investment in a well-equipped car, but there is no rental fee, a large staff and tables move fast, if they are available. The majority of restaurateurs see it as an economical move, where they do not have to skimp on the quality of the food.
