Gilda

Name: Gilda
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 12 pitted Manzanilla olives; 6 good salted anchovy fillets in oil; 12 pickled guindilla peppers; Extra virgin olive oil; 6 cocktail sticks

Gilda/HEEL-dah/

Also known as: Pintxo Gilda, Gilda Pintxo, Basque Olive and Anchovy Skewer

About this dish

A cocktail stick threaded with a green olive, a salted anchovy and pickled guindilla peppers: salty, sour and slightly hot.

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Ingredients

🫒12 pitted Manzanilla olives

🐟6 good salted anchovy fillets in oil

🌶️12 pickled guindilla peppers

🫒Extra virgin olive oil

🥢6 cocktail sticks

Method

Serves 2

Thread an olive onto a cocktail stick.

Fold an anchovy fillet and thread it on.

Add two guindilla peppers, folded if long.

Finish with another olive.

Drizzle with olive oil and eat in one bite.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

The gilda was the first pintxo, invented in San Sebastián in the 1940s and named after Rita Hayworth's film character.

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