# The best Spanish cured meats and sausages

Spain's most prized embutidos and cured meats, one or two per region, according to the food press and region-by-region guides.

- 24 votes · 16 items
- Apr 19, 2025 · jaime rodríguez
- https://even.best/en/l/134/the-best-spanish-cured-meats-and-sausages

## Top 15

1. **Morcilla de Burgos** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Rice, onion and blood sausage, PGI since 2018.
2. **Acorn-fed Iberian ham** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The king of cured meats: Jabugo, Guijuelo, Los Pedroches and Dehesa de Extremadura have PDO status.
3. **Iberian lomo embuchado** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Pork loin marinated with paprika and garlic and cured in casing.
4. **Cecina de León** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Salted, oak-smoked and cured beef; PGI.
5. **Botillo del Bierzo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Marinated pork ribs and tail stuffed in the caecum and smoked; boiled with potatoes and cabbage.
6. **Butifarra catalana** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Fresh pork sausage grilled with white beans; also black and egg versions.
7. **Chorizo de Cantimpalos** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Chorizo from Segovia in strings, PGI.
8. **Sobrasada de Mallorca** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Spreadable raw cured pork sausage with paprika, PGI.
9. **Chistorra** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Thin fresh Navarrese sausage for frying, typical of the San Fermín festival.
10. **Morcilla asturiana** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Smoked blood sausage, essential in the compango of fabada.
11. **Longaniza de Graus** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Aragonese sausage from Ribagorza, with its own festival in Graus.
12. **Androlla** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Pork rib sausage with paprika, typical of El Bierzo and Galicia.
13. **Fuet** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Thin Catalan cured pork and pepper sausage with its white bloom.
14. **Iberian chorizo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Iberian pork with Pimentón de la Vera and garlic, cured.
15. **Salchichón de Vic** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Slow-cured Catalan salami, PGI.
16. **Salchichón de Málaga** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Creamy, mild spreadable salami, typical of Málaga.

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