Gildas – spicy salty pintxos

Recipe

The easiest flavour bomb starter ever. Perfect for any size party.

These are Spanish tapas on toothpicks. The name Gilda comes from the 1946 film, starring Rita Hayworth as the passionate lead lady. They generally consist of three ingredients – an olive, a pickled chilli, and an anchovy.

Makes 20 .DF.GF.

Pictured: Gildas

20 large green olives, pitted (or 40 small)

20 of the best quality canned anchovy fillets you can find - e.g. Ortiz

20 small or slices of pickled green chillies - Calabrian guindilla or pepperoncino chillies/peppers

Plain salted potato crisps to serve

Strain the oil from the anchovies, prepare the chillies into slices if they are large.

In no particular order, carefully skewer onto a toothpick an anchovy, olive and chilli, double up your favourite ingredient if you like. Repeat until you have as many Gildas as you like. Serve with the crisps.