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Cooked for a minute with salt and bay leaf, or in the sea water itself, the Galician Barnacles from the Rias Baixas (Pollicipes Pollicipes) they are such a select ingredient that they need no further preparation. If you can't visit the Rocundo Barnacle Festival, Mariscos O Grove brings to your table the same exceptional fish that is enjoyed at the celebration in the town of A Coruña. The characteristics of the rocks, the cold water, the light and the strong waves favour the development of the Galician Barnacle, the most famous in Galicia. Before they are half a year old, the percebes reach commercial size; from 5 cm long and 2 cm in diameter.

The Galician estuary barnacle is distinguished from foreign species by its larger size and shorter length. The Galician barnacles are darker and fatter than those of other origins and have fewer limestone plates on their upper shell. In general, you can also find fragments of the rock from the cliff where the percebeiro was harvested. The Galician Barnacle with these characteristics are called: "sun", by the sunny environment in which they proliferate, in contrast to the so-called "shadow", narrow, elongated that are usually found in deeper crevices.

Choose the best barnacles of Galicia

All our Galician barnacles come from two main areas in the Rias Altas of Cedeira and Aguiño and the Rias Baixas from the O Grove fish market where they are actually caught on the island of Ons and the island of Cíes. For us they represent the highest expression of quality. The percebeiros, for generations, collect them in a traditional way between the waves and rocks of estuaries and cliffs risking their lives to get this precious ``Black Gold''

Remember that your online shop will always deliver them fresh to your home, because freshly cooked is how they offer their maximum expression of flavor, although if you want us to send them cooked just tell us in the final purchase process in additional information

On average, it is calculated that 250 grams of Galician barnacles is the ideal portion per person. You choose the characteristics of your order and, in case you need a different size than the one we offer on the web, you just have to contact us so we can get them for you.