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I'm trying to recreate a dish I had in the Orio restaurant in Valencia, Spain.

For lunch, Orio serves a vast buffet of Basque-style open sandwiches (pinchos), including our favorite, which was topped with a small piece of some kind of savory flan or custard. It was thin (about 1cm high), had some kind of cheese in it (possibly even a blue cheese) and herbs, and had a soft, custard/flan consistency.

In the photo, it's the one in the center, with a tomato jam and pistachios on top (not the one on the lower left, which is a regular Spanish Tortilla. This is something different).

Is this a generally known Spanish or Basque dish? Or is it something particular to a few Pinchos bars? I know it's not unique to Orio because I've found it in stock images.

I own multiple Spanish and Basque cookbooks and haven't been able to find anything quite like it, possibly because I don't know what it's called. So mainly looking for a name here.

photo of five pinchos on a plate. The center one, with a rectangle of white and a red sauce, is the one I'm asking about

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I've had similar ones at places in Barcelona. This is likely not a flan and just a soft creamy blue cheese with pepper or quince jelly topped with different nuts - it looks like yours may have pine nuts and pistachios.

Here is a link to some pictures of Irati's pinchos that look similar to what you're looking for: https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g187497-d717425-i148225979-Irati_Taverna_Basca-Barcelona_Catalonia.html

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