Home-made cooking and country food of Andorra

Home-made cooking and country food of Andorra


9 November 2017 | Thursday

Such a small and prosperous state has reached unprecedented heights, including the choice of delicious home-made food. In local stores you can buy quality farm products, meat, cheese, wine. Local people take care of their history, including culinary traditions, and pass home recipes from generation to generation. Since the state is very rich, locals are also very particular about food. Like the majority of the population in the western states, the citizens of Andorra are very jealous of the right and healthy eating and proper food.

At the same time, a large number of recipes, which seems to be originally local, at first sight, have their roots in the neighboring states of Andorra. In traditional Andorran dishes they use a lot of products obtained on local farms and in villages: meat (turkey, beef, pork, rabbit, lamb), seafood (mussels, shrimps, fish, caviar), vegetables (tomatoes, beans, cabbage, potatoes), dairy products (quality and healthy milk, sour cream, butter), pasta, which is not inferior in quality to the famous Italian brands.

Local cuisine uses a variety of sauces with onion, green, garlic, tomatoes, etc.

In Andorra the traveler should necessarily eat the following dishes of home-made food.

There is a huge number of meat dishes: la parillada (a huge dish, containing great variety of meat, cooked on a grid for grilling); Butifarra (a traditional sausage from Spanish Catalonia, served both with garnish and as an ingredient in the local soup); cunillo (rabbit, cooked in a special way with the addition of tomatoes and local sauces); xai (surprisingly tender roast lamb from a local farm); home-made duck meat cooked with an apple, and many other dishes using beef, rabbit, poultry.

Also, despite the fact that the country does not have access to the sea, seafood dishes are very popular there. In particular: trout, scallops, various pies with fillings from seafood, etc.

Since local people care about the right and healthy nutrition, and they are constantly concerned about their health, they pay much attention to useful food. So, for this reason, dishes from a variety of vegetables are very popular there. In addition, local people are very fond of natural cheese and milk, as well as products from milk.

Local winemaking is poorly developed, as people like French and Spanish wines, as well as coffee.

Source: VipGeo

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