The best traditional Catalan dishes
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Pa amb tomàquet · Escudella i carn d'olla · Calçots with romesco. (Updated Sep 9, 2026.)
The dishes that define Catalan cooking, of sea and mountain, according to Wikipedia, Los Traveleros and Catalan cookery guides.
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Top 12
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1
Pa amb tomàquet
Bread rubbed with tomato, oil and salt, the base of everything.
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Escudella i carn d'olla
Soup with galets pasta and the stew meats with the big 'pilota' meatball; the Christmas dish.
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3
Calçots with romesco
Grilled spring onions with romesco sauce at winter calçotades.
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4
Suquet de peix
Fish and potato stew of the Costa Brava fishermen.
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5
Crema catalana
Egg-yolk custard with burnt sugar, typical of St Joseph's Day.
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6
Esqueixada
Salad of raw shredded salt cod with tomato, onion and olives.
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7
Escalivada
Peppers, aubergine and onion roasted over embers.
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8
Fideuà
Seafood noodles with aioli, born in Gandia but very Catalan.
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9
Botifarra amb mongetes
Grilled butifarra sausage with white beans.
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10
Arròs negre
Rice with cuttlefish ink and aioli.
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11
Coca de recapte
Flatbread with roasted vegetables, herring or butifarra.
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12
Trinxat de la Cerdanya
Winter cabbage and potato with bacon, from the Pyrenees.
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13
Mar i muntanya
Surf and turf: chicken with prawns or cuttlefish with meatballs.
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