Churros and Xocolata
FEELING WICKED? CHURROS
Try your hand at making churros, strips of deep fried pastry sprinkled with sugar.
(It is believed that the churro is named after the shape of the horns of the Churro breed of sheep which is reared in the Spanish grasslands.)
Ingredients
Vegetable or Olive (...) read more...
Escudella i carn d’olla
Escudella i carn d’olla
Escudella (meaning bowl in Catalan) - a large stew-soup traditionally made at Christmas, a favourite cold-weather dish to warm the soul! Normally made from anything available and boiled all day. Here is one of many versions!
Ingredients
Water
Ham bone (...) read more...
Escuella de Pagès
Escudella De Pages (Catalan Peasant Soup) (Pagès, in Catalan, means peasant, rural, or rustic)
If you love a good hearty broth, with plenty of meat and vegetables, this is the one for you. It’s easy and cheap to make, and warms the cockles on a cold day. There are many variations on (...) read more...
French patisserie & cakes
Bunyetes d’amour (or Chocolate marzipan love cakes!)
20 minutes + 15 minutes in the oven + 30 minutes setting
Ground almonds 300 gr
Caster sugar 350 gr
Ground cinnamon 1 tsp
Vanilla extract 1 tsp
Eggs 2 whites, beaten until just foamy
Clear honey 1 tbsp
Icing sugar to dust (...) read more...
Escalivada
Escalivada
(comes from the Catalan word escalivar, meaning "to char", as the vegetables were traditionally cooked over embers.)
Ingredients
2 aubergines
2 green peppers
2 red peppers
4 red onions
8 tomatoes
30 cl olive oil
salt and pepper 1 large clove of garlic, chopped
1 (...) read more...
Bunyete recipe
Bunyete recipe
Bunyetes are flat, fried ’pancakes’ which swell in oil, become crisp, and are served dusted with granulated sugar, much like beignets or doughnuts. They are traditionally made and eaten at Easter all over Catalonia.
Ingredients
1 1/2 teaspoons instant (...) read more...
Aioli
Aioli
(in Catalan.... allioli - all=garlic i=and oli=oil)
Ingredients
5 large garlic cloves (about 1 1/2 ounces), peeled
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1 cup olive oil or 1/2 cup each pure or virgin olive oil and vegetable oil combined
Mash the garlic and salt together in mortar (...) read more...
Bullinada - Catalan fish casserole
Bullinada
(Catalan fish casserole traditionally made with eel but as this is not always easy to get hold of, there are many fish alternatives)
Ingredients:
1.5 Kg of fish: whiting, red mullet, king prawn etc
1 Kg of potatoes,
1 or 2 red peppers,
1/2 teaspoon of saffron,
5 or 6 (...) read more...
Suquet - fish soup
SUQUET
Suquet - the shortened form of "suc," which means "juice," from the appearance of this soup-like fish stew
A type of seafood stew or casserole, a suquet relies on raw ingredients which used to be thrown into an iron pot by fishermen out on the rough seas of the Mediterranean. They (...) read more...
Bunyetes
Bunyetes
Bunyetes are flat, fried ’pancakes’ which swell in oil, become crisp, and are served dusted with granulated sugar, much like beignets or doughnuts. They are traditionally made andeaten at Easter all over Catalonia
• 1 1/2 teaspoons instant dry yeast
• 4 (...) read more...