Tuna pot, marmitako in Basque Country and marmita, marmite or sorropotún in

Cantabria Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a ''comunidad histórica'', a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. It is bordered on the eas ...

is a

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of liv ...

stew A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. A stew needs to have raw ingredients added to the gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables and ...

that was eaten on

tuna A tuna is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae ( mackerel) family. The Thunnini comprise 15 species across five genera, the sizes of which vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna (max len ...

fishing boats in the Cantabrian Sea. Today it is a simple dish with tuna,

potato The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United ...

es,

onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the oni ...

s, peppers, and

tomato The tomato is the edible berry of the plant ''Solanum lycopersicum'', commonly known as the tomato plant. The species originated in western South America, Mexico, and Central America. The Mexican Nahuatl word gave rise to the Spanish word , ...

es. The original French word ''marmite'' is a metal pot with lid. This French word ''marmite'' or the Spanish equivalent ''marmita'' gives name to the dish in the East and Central Coast of Cantabria while the Cantabrian word ''sorropotún'' is used in the West Coast. ''Marmitako'' in Basque language means 'from the pot'.

History

Tuna pot was eaten by Basque fishermen during fishing season. As they stayed a long time at sea, the food used to go bad, so they ate the

they fished with cooked potatoes and

choricero peppers Choricero peppers (Spanish: Pimiento choricero) are a variety of red pepper (themselves a variety of the American species, ''Capsicum annuum'') that are dehydrated for preservation. They have become part of Spanish culture, so much so that their h ...

that kept well.

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