This document provides a list and brief descriptions of the top 10 traditional Catalan dishes, including: 1) Bread with tomato - A simple dish made with bread, tomatoes, olive oil, and salt. 2) Tin-style snails - Snails cooked and served in a tin, usually accompanied by bread and a garlic olive oil sauce. 3) Catalan omelette - A complex omelette made with eggs, white beans, blood sausage, olive oil, and salt. 4) Long pork sausage with white beans - A simple dish consisting of beans and long pork sausage cooked with spices.

1. MARCH 2019 TRENDS
TOP 10
TRADITIONAL
CATALAN DISHES
1 B R E A D W I T H T O M A T O
Bread with tomato is the easiest Catalan
dish. To prepare it you just need three
minutes and four ingredients: bread,
tomatoes, olive oil and salt. First you have
to rub the tomato on the bread and then add
some olive oil and salt. Normally some cold
meat is included to be more tasty.
2 T I N - S T Y L E S N A I L S
The "Tin-style snails" name is due to the
way this dish is presented, in a tin. It is
usually eaten with bread and a sauce made
of garlic and olive oil. This dish is cooked in
different ways depending on the region.
There is a fest in Lleida called "L'aplec del
caragol" where people are gathered
together to eat snails and drink.
3 C A T A L A N O M E L E T T E
The Catalan omelette is a complex recipe. It
is similar to the Spanish omelette, but this
one is more tasty. Catalan omelette is made
of white beans, eggs, blood sausage, olive oil
and salt.
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L O N G P O R K S A U S A G E
W I T H W H I T E B E A N S
Long pork sausage with white beans is a
simple Catalan dish. The two main
ingredients are, as the name says, beans and
long pork sausage. The most important of
this recipe is to cook the meat and beans
with the suitable species.
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traditional Catalan dishes.
by Blau Camarasa

2. " E S C A L I V A D A "
The "escudella" dish is one of the most
elaborate Catalan dish. To cook it you need
more than fifteen basic ingredients such as
chicken, chickpea, potatoes, especial soup
pasta... It is a kind of soup characterized
for its amazing taste.
7 " E S Q U E I X A D A " O F C O D
This dish is not complicated. To prepare it
you just need to take cod, wash it with
water and add small pieces of tomato, sweet
red pepper and black olives. Olive oil at the
end must not be forgotten.
C A N N E L L O N I W I T H P O T -
M E A T
5 " E S C U D E L L A "
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Cannelloni is traditionally eaten the 26th of
December. It is made of the remainder meat
of "escudella". This meat is placed inside a
roll of pasta. Sauce is added on them in
order to make it more tasty.
8
"Escalivada" is made of capsicum, aubergine
and onion. It is usually combined with
toasted bread and olive oil. It is one of the
easiest Catalan recipes.
9 " C A L Ç O T S "
Calçots is the name we give to a very typical
Catalan dish. It consists on onions usually
cooked in the barbecue and a specific sauce
called Romesco. This sauce is made of garlic,
olive oil, tomatoes...
C A T A L A N C R E A M10
Catalan cream is a delicious desert. It
contains cinnamon, milk, eggs, lemon peel
and sugar. The sugar is often burned on the
cream as you can see in the picture.