Long list of appetizers, hake and coconut foam
At half past eight, Felipe VI gives a welcome dinner at the Royal Palace to the Heads of State and Government attending the NATO summit. In total there are 58 guests plus the kings Felipe and Letizia. They will start with a long appetizer that they will do standing up, in the Throne room. The pica-pica includes: spherical olives, red tuna brioche with old mustard, sea bass ceviche with leche de tigre, picaña ‘airbag’, lobster with oil soup and pink grapefruit, shrimp omelette, marinated sardine with romescu sauce , glazed beef taco, smoked salmon gilda, garlic prawn croquette, kikos with guacamole, cod fritter and basil oil gazpacho. Chef Paco Roncero from Madrid cooks.
Then they will go to the Gala dining room, where once seated they will have hake with mernier sauce, tapico and trout roe as a main course and, for dessert, coconut foam with mint granita and passion fruit. The sources of Zarzuela have not specified the wines, but there will be white, red and cava, reports Piar Santos.