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Catalan cuisine is based on the ingredients of the Mediterranean area: fresh vegetables (especially tomato, garlic, aubergine, red pepper, and artichoke), wheat products (bread, pasta), olive oils, wines, legumes (beans, chick peas), all sorts of pork preparations ( sausages, ham), all sorts of cheese, poultry, lamb, and many types of fish like sardine, anchovy, tuna, and cod.Some of the characteristic tendencies of traditional Catalan cuisine have been fondness for pasta (only second to the Italian cuisine) and for cod (salted, dried, fresh, etc.), preparations that mix sweet and salty, stews with sauces based on botifarra (raw pork sausage) and the characteristic picada (grinded almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts, etc. sometimes with garlic, herbs, biscuits).
Some concoctions that have been exported or adapted beyond their original places are:
- Escalivada (various grilled vegetables)
- Escudella
- Pa amb tomaquetPa amb tomaquet bread with tomato is a typical preparation of Catalan cuisine that consists of bread with tomato scratched over and seasoned with olive oil and salt, and sometimes with garlic as well. It is served accompanied with any sorts of sausages (c (bread and tomato)
- Esqueixada , salted cod salad with tomato and onion
- Cod Catalan style , cod with raisins and pine nuts
- Tonyina en escabetx , tuna marinated in a characteristic sauce with vinegar and herbs, named 'Salsa catalana' even on canned tuna packed in Galicia
- Mongetes amb botifarra (beans and pork sausage)
- TortellTortell (Catalan [turt'eλ]) is a Catalan typically O-shaped pastry stuffed with marzipan, that on some special occasions is topped with glazed fruit. Below image of a Tortell de Reis traditionally eaten on January 6, the day of the Three Wise Men a, a typical O-shaped pastry stuffed with marzipanThis article is about the food marzipan; for the Homestar Runner character of this name, see: Marzipan (character). Marzipan is confectionery consisting primarily of ground almonds and sugar that derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, whic, that on some special occasions is topped with glazed fruit.
- Mel i mató , a plain dessert of mató cheeseMat (SAMPA [m'to]) is a Catalan fresh cheese made from cow or goat milk, with no salt added, similar to ricotta. It is usually served with bee honey, as a dessert. The mato from Montserrat mountain is famous. The name of this cheese is a deformation of ol with honeyHoney is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. The flavor and color of the substance is largely determined by the type of the flowers from which the nectar is gathered. Common flavours of honey include or.
- Torró or nougatNougat is a confection made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts ( almonds, walnuts, pistachios or hazelnuts are common) and sometimes chopped, candied fruit. The consistency of nougat can range from chewy to hard depending on its composition. White nougat i is a traditional Christmas confectionery from Alicante to Perpignan. Nowadays many variants and flavours exist, but the traditional ones are these kinds based on almonds and honey:
- Agramunt nougat
- MarzipanThis article is about the food marzipan; for the Homestar Runner character of this name, see: Marzipan (character). Marzipan is confectionery consisting primarily of ground almonds and sugar that derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, whic
- FuetFuet is a Catalan thin, cured dry sausage of pork meat in a pork gut. The most famous is made in the comarca (county) of Osona and is also known as Vic fuet fuet de Vic after the city of Vic, capital of Osona). Cuisine of Catalonia Sausages.
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Cuisine of Catalonia
