# The best traditional Catalan dishes

The dishes that define Catalan cooking, of sea and mountain, according to Wikipedia, Los Traveleros and Catalan cookery guides.

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- Sep 9, 2026 · compradora_burgos
- https://even.best/en/l/323/the-best-traditional-catalan-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Pa amb tomàquet** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bread rubbed with tomato, oil and salt, the base of everything.
2. **Escudella i carn d'olla** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Soup with galets pasta and the stew meats with the big 'pilota' meatball; the Christmas dish.
3. **Calçots with romesco** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Grilled spring onions with romesco sauce at winter calçotades.
4. **Suquet de peix** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fish and potato stew of the Costa Brava fishermen.
5. **Crema catalana** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Egg-yolk custard with burnt sugar, typical of St Joseph's Day.
6. **Esqueixada** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Salad of raw shredded salt cod with tomato, onion and olives.
7. **Escalivada** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peppers, aubergine and onion roasted over embers.
8. **Fideuà** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Seafood noodles with aioli, born in Gandia but very Catalan.
9. **Botifarra amb mongetes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Grilled butifarra sausage with white beans.
10. **Arròs negre** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rice with cuttlefish ink and aioli.
11. **Coca de recapte** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Flatbread with roasted vegetables, herring or butifarra.
12. **Trinxat de la Cerdanya** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Winter cabbage and potato with bacon, from the Pyrenees.
13. **Mar i muntanya** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Surf and turf: chicken with prawns or cuttlefish with meatballs.

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