Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Spanish migas
Stale bread fried in oil with garlic and paprika until it is almost a hash. Egg on top. Bacon if you have it. Don't make stuffing and call it migas.
The sheet · 4 plates · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Stale bread fried in oil with garlic and paprika until it is almost a hash. Egg on top. Bacon if you have it. Don't make stuffing and call it migas.
What it needs
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- bread
- garlic
- olive oil
- paprika
- eggs
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: bacon.
Method
- Stale bread torn small, sprinkled with salted water and left covered for an hour. This is not optional — dry crumbs fry into gravel.
- A lot of olive oil, garlic cloves whole and lifted out once golden, then the paprika off the heat so it does not scorch.
- Crumbs in and turned patiently for twenty minutes until every one is crisp and separate.
- Fried eggs on top. Entirely different dish from the Mexican one with the same name, and both are worth knowing.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- VinaigretteDispersing fat into acid so it stays dispersed for as long as dinner takes, which is all it has to do.separates immediately · greasy · too sharp · dull
- Bread doughDeveloping gluten and letting fermentation do the flavor, which is mostly a matter of time rather than effort.dense · flat · gummy inside · tore during shaping · over-proofed
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 1 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishThe foundations — how pan heat and timing decide whether a scramble is custard or rubber.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Bread and doughNO KNEAD Tartine Sourdough BreadBrian LagerstromA Tartine-style loaf from mixing to bake, with the timings a home oven actually needs.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- bread
- Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
- paprika
- Color and a mild sweet pepper flavor, and it scorches into bitterness almost instantly.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
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