The almogrote of La Gomera is the last remnant in our country of a sauce popular in Spain Sephardic called almodrote. The almodrote was made with three basic ingredients: aged cheese, roasted garlic and olive oil. The almodrote was popular in Sephardic cuisine of Spain and Portugal but disappeared entirely from the sixteenth century to the Iberian Peninsula. They ate mainly during Passover. The almodrote has survived in the Turkish and Greek Sephardic communities associated with other products, especially the eggplant.
As you know, many Sephardic Jews expelled by professing the Jewish faith landfall in North Africa, Greece (primarily Thessaloniki) and Istanbul. They could not keep material possessions at least took its gastronomic culture. The almodrote almogrote or as it is called in Greece or Istanbul survived on the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands) as further evidence of our heritage Sephardic.
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