Office de Tourisme Pyrénées Cerdagne

The Cerdane cuisine

Cerdane cuisine overwhelms with unexpected flavours, their rich and varied recipes use produce from local farms including cabbage, turnip, potatoes, pears, apples and quinces. Suckling lamb and veal having benefited from the lush mountain pastures give the meat a taste renowned for its quality and origin.   The mountain ham, catalan sausage, dried sausage, pâté de campagne, and the famous pa de fetge are all derived from free ranging pigs bred in the traditional Cerdane way.  Vegetable gardens yield lettuces, aubergines, courgettes, green beans, pumpkins, tomatoes and fruits of the forest, which all marry perfectly with locally produced meat.

Make sure you experience our traditional Catalan mountain delights such as: Duck with turnip,;stuffed pigs trotter; vegetable escalivada; trinxat (Catalan shephard’s pie) and Ouillade (pork and vegetable stew).  Now you know that Cerdagne country is rich in gastronomic delights, you can challenge your pallet to a range of simultaneously powerful and subtle flavours.