Food of Andorra
Andorran cooking is mountain food from the Pyrenees, closely related to Catalan cuisine. Hearty stews, cured meats, potatoes, cabbage, beans, snails and cheese keep people warm in cold winters. Meals are traditionally unhurried, with robust dishes cooked slowly in one pot.
Escudella
A hearty Catalan-style stew of meats, sausages, beans, potatoes and cabbage, with the broth served first with pasta.
- Main dishes (8)
- Breakfast (2)
- Street food (2)
- Soups (2)
- Salads (1)
- Desserts and sweets (4)
- Drinks (4)
- Fruits and produce (4)
Staples
- potatoes
- cabbage
- beans
- pork
- sausages
- cheese
- bread
- mushrooms
Signature flavors
- garlic
- parsley
- bay leaf
- saffron
- black pepper
- thyme
Main dishes
A hearty Catalan-style stew of meats, sausages, beans, potatoes and cabbage, with the broth served first with pasta.
Key ingredients: pork, sausage, beans, potatoes, cabbage
Mashed potatoes and cabbage fried together with bacon until golden and crisp at the edges.
Key ingredients: potatoes, cabbage, bacon, garlicSnails baked on a tin tray with olive oil, garlic and parsley.
Key ingredients: snails, olive oil, garlic, parsleyFresh mountain river trout pan-fried with ham or butter.
Key ingredients: trout, butter, ham, lemon
Roast or stewed rabbit, a mountain favorite.
Key ingredients: rabbit, garlic, tomato, herbs
Grilled Catalan sausage served with white beans.
Key ingredients: pork sausage, white beans, olive oilFried pastry snack, also eaten with cured meats.
Key ingredients: flour, eggs, sugarA platter of local cured sausages and hams.
Key ingredients: pork, salt, spicesBreakfast
Toasted bread rubbed with ripe tomato and olive oil.
Key ingredients: bread, tomato, olive oil
Flat sweet or savory bread baked in the oven, eaten with coffee.
Key ingredients: flour, olive oil, sugarStreet food
Crusty roll filled with cured sausage and cheese.
Key ingredients: bread, sausage, cheeseThin pancakes sold in mountain village cafes for tourists.
Key ingredients: flour, eggs, milk, chocolateSoups
Thyme and garlic soup with bread.
Key ingredients: thyme, garlic, bread, stockThe rich broth of the stew served first with small pasta.
Key ingredients: broth, pastaSalads
Salad of lettuce, tomato, cured ham and cheese.
Key ingredients: lettuce, tomato, ham, cheeseDesserts and sweets
Creamy Andorran custard dessert with a hint of lemon.
Key ingredients: milk, eggs, sugar, lemon
Light fried doughnuts rolled in sugar.
Key ingredients: flour, eggs, sugarSweet bread with crispy pork cracklings.
Key ingredients: flour, sugar, cracklings
Fresh cheese with honey and walnuts.
Key ingredients: fresh cheese, honey, walnutsDrinks
Thick Spanish-style drinking chocolate.
Key ingredients: chocolate, milkMilky coffee.
Key ingredients: coffee, milkInfusions of mountain herbs like thyme and chamomile.
Key ingredients: herbs, honeySqueezed oranges.
Key ingredients: orangesFruits and produce
Mountain orchards.
Key ingredients: baking, compote
Wild raspberries and blackberries.
Key ingredients: jam, desserts
Autumn roasted chestnuts.
Key ingredients: roasted
Wild rovellons and ceps.
Key ingredients: stews, saucesMore cuisines of Southern Europe
Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Escudella Catalana - Barcelona (2011): Tamorlan, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Trinxat 1: daniel.julia, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Oryctolagus cuniculus Rcdo: JM Ligero Loarte, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Grilled sausages: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pa amb tomaquet: Jennifer Woodard Maderazo, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Coques: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bunyol de carabassa: Baptiste Pons from Gandia / Burjassot, País Valencià, Spain, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cheese.Mato.Catalonia: No machine-readable author provided. Yearofthedragon assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chocolate cup Chantilly porcelain 18th century: World Imaging, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 95apple: Agricultural Research Service (Research agent of United States Department of Agriculture), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Fruit Platter- Seasonal Fruits: روتانا, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Châtaignier 120807 1: Vassil, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sparrige Schüppling (Pholiota squarrosa): Holger Krisp, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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