Balearic cuisine
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Bakery and confectionery
- Unsalted bread
- Ensaïmada: Lard- based pastry sprinkled with powdered sugar.
- Islamicpast of the islands.
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- Easter baking products
- Crespell is a Majorcan kind of biscuit.
Vegetables
Traditional vegetables dishes are:
- courgettes, potatoes, eggplant and red peppers baked in tomato sauce, related to similar Mediterranean dishes such as samfaina or ratatouille.
- puree
- Trempó: made of pepper, onion and tomato; eat with mussels, in coques, as a salad, etc.
- Sopas mallorquinas: made of vegetables, broth, and bread slices.
Meat
- Sobrassada sausage
- Rostit humit, garrí rostit: lamb and piglet roasts
- Albergínies o carabassons farcits: Eggplants (aubergines) or zucchinis (courgettes) stuffed with minced meat
- Arroz brut: "Dirty rice"—meat, vegetables, rice and spices cooked in a meat broth.
- Arròs de la terra: bulgur with local specialities as botifarra, etc.
- Macarrons amb grevi: penne in a sauce similar to British gravy
Fish
- Caldera de llagosta: Lobster stew
- Baked fish, such as anfós (grouper)
- Arròs de peix: rice cooked in a fish broth with fish pieces
Fats
- fried eggs)
- Mayonnaise is called all i oli, 'garlic and oil' in Catalan. Some historians argue that mayonnaise originates from Mahon (known in Catalan as Maó), the capital of the Balearic island of Menorca. [citation needed]
Other
- Pla i Llevantareas.
- Escargots: Snails are eaten in a stew, also containing meat, potatoes, and fennel. Snails are also eaten sometimes in paella.
See also
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cuisine of the Balearic Islands.
- Menorcan cuisine. Recipes of traditional cuisine and gastronomy of Menorca. Discovering Menorca.
- Balearic Cuisine Take a taste of Islas Baleares