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The Catalan cuisine is the cuisine observed in Catalonia, Spain. It relies on the delicious ingredients found along the great Mediterranean coast. The ingredients include vegetables like tomato, garlic, aubergine, red pepper and artichoke. There are also wheat products, olive oils from Arbequina, wines, legumes, mushrooms and all sorts of cheese, poultry and lamb.

The traditional Catalan cuisine makes use of a lot of pasta and cod. There are also a lot of preparations which mix sweet and salty and stews. The sauces used are based on botifarra and the characteristic picada. Among the savory dishes famous in Catalonia are Escalivada, Escudella, Esquexada, Fuet, Pa amb tomaquet, suquet, embotits, calcots and allioli.

The cuisine also entails sweet desserts such as creama cataana, mal i mato, mona de pasqua, panellets, tortell and torro. Aside from those delectable dishes, there are also wines which are known to be sparkling and soothing in the throat offered by the Catalan cuisine.

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