Ingredients for 4 persons:
• 200 g. cuttlefish • 200 g. squid • 100 g. octopus • 200 g. angler fish cut into small pieces • 100 g. peeled prawns • 8 mussels • 150 g. potatoes • 3 fresh spring onions • 1 red pepper • 1 green pepper • 1 bay leaf • 1 clove of garlic • 1 sprigs of fennel • Salt and pepper to taste.
Ingredients for 4 people:
• 4 puff pastry rings • 100 g Sobrasada • 300 g Escalivada • 100 g cleaned and sauteed mixed mushrooms • Grated orange peel • 30 g grated Maonès cheese • White wine • Cream • Salt and pepper • Garden cress
Javier Gila, five-time Spanish Sommelier champion explains what wine harmonise best with different dishes.
Serves 8 people:
• 700gr lamb innards, diced • 1/2 bundle of spring onions • 1 garlic head, peeled and crushed • 2 dl. of olive oil • 2 red peppers, diced • 1 big onion, chopped
Ingredients for 4 people:
• 200 ml olive oil • 4 cloves of garlic • 5 small fresh onions • 4 vine tomatoes • 200 g cauliflower • 150 g peas • 4 artichoke • 1 green pepper • 2 spoonfuls chopped parsley • 1 bunch of spinach • 1 medium cabbage • 200 g baguette bread (soup), salt, pepper and water.
A lovely evening in a Cosmopolitan environment; the fifth edition of Wine Days Mallorca.
Mallorcan Oil is an extra virgin olive oil made with the fruit of the olive tree (Olea Europea) using the Mallorquina or Empeltre, Arbequina and Picual varieties, based on physical processes which ensure that the oil conserves the aroma, taste and properties of the fruit from which it is made.
These Mallorcan pasties (“Panades mallorquines“) are typical of Easter, here in Mallorca and the Balearics. Our grandmothers did before the holidays and so had made for dinner a few nights. If it become smaller in size serve a buffet.
Fava Parada (Broad bean soup with noodles)
Fava Parada Ingredients
Serves 4 people:
– 1 grouper 2.5 to 3 kg. – 4 or 5 large potatoes – 100 g. of spinach – 100 g. Spinach – 1 Tomato – Raisins and pine nuts – 1 Onion – 1 Leek – 50 g. chopped cookie – Sweet red pepper – Salt and white pepper – Parsley – Olive oil
Serves 4 people:
– 1 grouper 2.5 to 3 kg. – 4 or 5 large potatoes – 100 g. of spinach – 100 g. Spinach – 1 Tomato – Raisins and pine nuts – 1 Onion – 1 Leek – 50 g. chopped cookie – Sweet red pepper – Salt and white pepper – Parsley – Olive oil
History
Its name derives from the French gâteau (cake) and appears to have originated in the eighteenth century Gallic cuisine, although the cakes made of almonds were consumed earlier. Thus the year 1679, on the occasion of the visit of Bishop Bernard Cotoner in the monastery of San Salvador, were served, among other foods, almond cakes.
The Mallorcan Arròs Brut is a typical dish of Mallorca, very requested by residents and visitors of the island, it is a rice soup and is taken as a first course.
In the Balearics are made nougat craftsmanship and exclusive as the “tambor d’ametlla”. The “tambor d’ametlla” is an almond nougat hard consistency of a slightly darker color than honey.
Robiols are a typical Mallorcan pudding at Christmas and Easter. They are sweet and filled with cheese, jam, pudding or ‘angel’s hair’.
The bakers in LLoseta produce amazing cakes called cardinals, worthy of the most sophisticated member of the roman curia.
In autumn you can not miss in Balearic gastronomy the “esclata-sang” (Lactarius deliciosus, L. sanguifluus), mushroom classified as excellent baked, grilled, it is also a great complement to stews, hunting stews (partridge, rabbit or hare) and very good in stew with potatoes and spanish sausage.
Ingredients:
1/2 vaso de leche
1/2 vaso de aceite de oliva
1 vaso de azúcar
4 huevos
250gr de harina de trigo
1/2 sobre de levadura
10 o 12 albaricoques
Un trozo de sobrasada cortada a trozos pequeños
Half a glass of milk – Half a glass of Mallorcan olive oil – 1 glass of sugar – 250g of wheat flour – 4 eggs – Half a packet of yeast – 10 or 12 apricots – A slice of sobrassada sliced into small pieces
Ingredients for 4 persons:
• 4 cleaned and filleted mackerels • 3 Garlic cloves, finely sliced • 500 g. milk caps, chopped into • Strips • Salt
Stuffed, and baked fish “a lo Fra Roger”. By Santi Taura For the stuffing: • Breadcrumbs • Toasted ground pine nuts • Toasted ground Majorcan almonds • Chopped parsley..
With the first storms that announce the end of summer, the “Llampugues” (dolphinfish) arrives at the market. A tasty way to enjoy this fish is as follows.
Ingredients for 4 people:
600g of sea bass – 2 leeks – 100g ground almond – 1 bunch of spinach – 30g pine nuts – 30g sultanas – Salt and pepper
To make the sauce
Pine nuts – Olive oil Mallorca
Ingredients:
• 32 large prawns • 1 tablespoon chopped spring onion • ½ golden apple • 2 grapes • salt and oil • 75 g. cured Mahón cheese • 150 ml. water
Stock:
• 1 l. water • ½ carrot • ½ onion • parsley • saffron • 250 g. tapioca
This vegetable is irreplaceable in Mallorca’s traditional recipe book and is the main ingredient in one of our most typical dishes: meat stuffed aubergines, known as “berenjenas a la mallorquina”.
“Trampó” is a harmonious, well-balanced and refined dish consisting of tomato, green Mallorcan peppers and Mallorcan onion. Olive oil, salt and nothing else.
The Fruits Secs group launched the Mallorca Fruits trademark in 2010 in an effort to defend the interests of the over 3,000 Mallorcan almond producers.
Ingredients:
• 6 ice cubes • 2 parts Mallorcan olive oil • 2 parts pear juice • 1 part “Hierbas de Mallorca” (sweet) Herbs liquor of Mallorca
An Es Variat is one of our gastronomical and cultural symbols. Eating a variat is a well rooted habit in Majorcan society, but what is a variat?
Ingredients for 6 people:
• 1 kilo of loin of pork • 1 Savoy or other cabbage • Olive oil • 2 large onions • 300 grams of cured bacon • 300 grams of mushrooms • 100 grams of raisins • 30 grams of pine nuts • 100 ml of red wine • 5 vine tomatoes • 2 litres of water or stock • 150 grams sobrasada • 2 “botifarrons” • Salt and pepper
Ingredients:
200g of Cod – 2 Golden delicious Apples – 2 tbsp of chopped black olives – 1 tomato, peeled and deseeded – Mixed salad leaves – Salt – Virgin olive oil and butter – Sugar
For the honey vinagrette:
50ml honey – 50ml balsamic vinegar – 200ml Predio Son Quint olive oil
Ingredients:• 100 g. of diced Mallorcan sobrasada • 8 pieces of boneless monkfish, each weighing 60 grams • 30 g. of pine-nuts • 30 g. of raisins • 8 cabbage leaves, minus the nerve, cut into pieces • 0.5 dl. of white wine • A finely chopped onion • 2 finely chopped cloves of garlic • 200 g. of tomato pulp
Pancuit is our garlic soup, it is a dish that gradually disappeared from our home’s tables and now has become just a memory of the past.
Ingredients for 2 people:
• 1 Scorpian fish • 2 middle potatoes • 1 teaspoon coffee • 5 big mushrooms • 3 wildmushrooms • 1 buch of spinach • 2 scallops • 2 Prawns • 1 spoon capers • 1 young onion • Oliverio, salt, pepper, butter
The prestigious majorcan chef Benet Vicens welcomes us in his restaurant “Bens d’Avall”, an establishment located in a privileged setting of Mallorca, between the towns of Sóller and Deià and the edge of the sea. Specialized in cuisine based on native ingredients.
Ingredients for 4 persons:
• 3 or 4 tomatoes • 2 green peppers • 1 white onion • Salt and oil
For the dough:
• 1/4 glass of oil • 1/2 glass of lukewarm water • 1 piece of baker’s yeast • 1 table spoon of butter Some flour
Ingredients for 4 people:
• 3 aubergines • 4 green peppers • 4 red peppers • 4 medium-sized potatoes • 1 kg. ripe tomatoes • 4 cloves of garlic • 3 dl. olive oil
Clam, chive consommé and pickled mushrooms.
By Marcel Ress
