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Pastisset
Pastissets (), also called casquetes, pastelicos, dulces de alma or flaons are stuffed fried pastries from Catalan cuisine, Valencian cuisine and Aragonese cuisine. They can be filled with cabell d'àngel jam, sweet potato jam, or almonds, even with mató cheese and Dulce de membrillo, ''codonyat''. They are typical of Terres de l'Ebre and in Valencian Community. In Mallorca, there is a very similar preparation called rubiol. Preparation In Amposta they are made with a mixture of olive oil, flour, egg (food), eggs, Muscat (grape and wine), Catalan ''moscatell'' and Anís (liqueur), anissette, which is cut in circles. They are stuffed, folded by the middle and closed by pressing softly, often with a fork. They are cooked and covered with sugar. Gallery Pastissets de moniato.JPG, Pastissets de moniato Pastissets de carabassa i mel.JPG, Pastissets de carabassa i mel Pastissets de Benifallet.jpg, Flaons de Xert.JPG, Flaons de Xert See also *Catalan cuisine * List of doughnut var ...
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Catalan Cuisine
Catalan cuisine is the cuisine from Catalonia. It may also refer to the shared cuisine of Northern Catalonia and Andorra, the second of which has a similar cuisine to that of the neighbouring Alt Urgell and Cerdanya ''comarques'' and which is often referred to as "Catalan mountain cuisine". It is considered a part of western Mediterranean cuisine. History There are several Catalan language cookbooks from the Middle Ages that are known to modern scholars. The ' (1520) was one of the most influential cookbooks of Renaissance Spain. It includes several sauce recipes made with ingredients such as ginger, mace powder ('), cinnamon, saffron, cloves ('), wine and honey. '' Salsa de pagó'' took its name from the peacock ( ca, el paó) that it was intended to be served with, but could accompany any type of poultry, and was part of the medieval Christmas meal. ' (or ' as it's called in the '' Cuoco Napoletano'') was half-roasted (') poultry that was finished in a ''salsa'' thicken ...
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Valencian Cuisine
250px, '' Oranges, typical fruit from Valencian Community'' Valencian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine as cooked in the Valencian Community, Spain. Its basic ingredients are vegetables, seafood and meat. It is famous worldwide for its rices, such as paella, and its citrus fruits. The cuisine of neighbouring regions have given and received important contributions from Valencian gastronomy, amongst them Balearic cuisine, Catalan cuisine, Aragonese cuisine, Manchego cuisine and Murcian cuisine. Main dishes '' Allioli sauce'' *Paella. The most famous Valencian dish is one of the most recent. Although many towns claim to be the birthplace of paella, it is usually considered native to Albufera and Ribera, just south of Valencia. It can be found in two main varieties, with chicken and rabbit or with seafood. Nowadays paella can be found around the world and especially throughout Spain and Latin America. The name comes from the large pan ('paella' in Valencian) where it is cooked. ...
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Aragonese Cuisine
The Aragonese cuisine includes several typical dishes and ingredients of the local cuisine of Aragon, a community in Spain. Dishes and ingredients One of the most characteristic dishes of the traditional gastronomy of Aragon is roast lamb (prepared especially with ewes), known as ''ternasco''. Salted cod imported from other parts of Spain was also traditionally used in some dishes such as in the ''Albóndigas de bacalao''. Some of the most well-known main ingredients include ham (jamón) from Teruel, olive oil from Empeltre and Arbequina olives, sweet varieties of onion, and unusual vegetables such as borage and cardoon. Sweet Aragonese specialities are the '' trenza de Almudevar'', the '' tortas de alma'', ''guirlache'' (a type of nougat), ''adoquines'', ''frutas de Aragón'' (a confit of fruit covered in chocolate) and ''Españoletas'' (a kind of local cookie). Breads * Pan de cinta * Pan de pintera, pintadera or estrella * Pan de cañada (bread with olive oil) * Pan de Sa ...
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Pastry
Pastry is baked food made with a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as '' bakers' confectionery''. The word "pastries" suggests many kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder, and eggs. Small tarts and other sweet baked products are called pastries as a synecdoche. Common pastry dishes include pies, tarts, quiches, croissants, and pasties. The French word pâtisserie is also used in English (with or without the accent) for the same foods. Originally, the French word referred to anything, such as a meat pie, made in dough (''paste'', later ''pâte'') and not typically a luxurious or sweet product. This meaning still persisted in the nineteenth century, though by then the term more often referred to the sweet and often ornate confections implied today. Pastry can also refer to the pastry dough, from w ...
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Valencian Community
The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with more than five million inhabitants.Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2020. Its homonymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along the Mediterranean coast on the east side of the Iberian Peninsula. It borders with Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castilla–La Mancha to the west, and Murcia to the south, and the Balearic Islands are to its east. The Valencian Community consists of three provinces which are Castellón, Valencia and Alicante. According to Valencia's Statute of Autonomy, the Valencian people are a ''nationality''. Their origins date back to the 1238 Aragonese conquest of the Taifa of Valencia. The newly-founded Kingdom of Valencia enjoyed its own legal entit ...
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Stuffed Dishes
Stuff, stuffed, and stuffing may refer to: *Physical matter *General, unspecific things, or entities Arts, media, and entertainment Books *''Stuff'' (1997), a novel by Joseph Connolly *''Stuff'' (2005), a book by Jeremy Strong Fictional character *A flying creature in the video game '' Kya: Dark Lineage'' Film *''The Stuff'', a 1985 horror/comedy film by Larry Cohen * ''Stuff'' (film), a 1993 documentary about John Frusciante's life Illustration * Henry Wright (1849–1937), worked for ''Vanity Fair'' under the pseudonym "Stuff" Music * ''Stuff'' (Holly McNarland album), 1997 *Stuff (band), a 1970s-1980s fusion/rhythm and blues music group ** ''Stuff'' (Stuff album) *''Stuff'', a 1992 album by Bill Wyman * "Stuff" (song), a 2000 single by Diamond Rio from the album ''One More Day'' * ''Stuff'' (Eleanor McEvoy album), 2014 * ''Stuffed'' (album), by Mother Goose Television * "Stuff" (''How I Met Your Mother''), a 2007 episode from the sitcom ''How I Met Your Mother'' *''Ale ...
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List Of Fried Dough Varieties
This is a list of fried dough foods. Many cultures have dishes that are prepared by deep frying dough in many various forms. Doughnuts are a type of fried dough food that are covered separately in the Wikipedia article List of doughnut varieties. Fried dough foods }, ur, جلیبی, pa, ਜਲੇਬੀ, te, జిలేబి) or Jilapi ( bn, জিলাপী), this is a deep-fried sweet batter with rose water and saffron. Similar to Persian Zoolbiya. , - , Jersey wonders , , Jersey , These are also known as ''Mèrvelles'' , - , Jin deui , , China , A hollow fried pastry made of glutinous rice flour that is coated with sesame seeds and filled with a sweet filling. , - , Johnny Cake , , US Virgin Islands , Unleavened, golden-sweet, semi-flattened,fluffy-fried bread made primarily of white flour. , - , Kabkab , , Philippines , Deep-fried cassava wafers , - , Kachori , , India , Dough balls filled with different kinds of savoury stuffings like de-skinne ...
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List Of Doughnut Varieties
Doughnuts are a type of fried dough food. The following is a list of doughnut varieties. Variations and specialties by region The terms below constitute either names for different doughnut types created using local recipes, or for the local language translation of the term for an imported doughnut product. * Argentina – Kreppel, also called ''tortas fritas'' (fried pastries), is a fried pastry or quick bread that was introduced by German immigrants, and is similar to the Berliner. Facturas are a popular baked doughnut found in every corner bakery. Other names that may be seen in bakeries are ''berlinesas'' and ''bolas de fraile'' ("friar's balls"). * Armenia – ''Ponchik'', borrowed from Russian, is a deep-fried piece of dough shaped into a flattened sphere and filled with confiture or other sweet filling. ''Tukalik'' are similar to doughnut holes, and Armenian doughnuts are referred to as ''chickies''. * Australia – Kitchener bun, Similar to Berliner, but with an open ...
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Olive Oil
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives (the fruit of ''Olea europaea''; family Oleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, produced by pressing whole olives and extracting the oil. It is commonly used in cooking: for frying foods or as a salad dressing. It can be found in some cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, soaps, and fuels for traditional oil lamps. It also has additional uses in some religions. The olive is one of three core food plants in Mediterranean cuisine; the other two are wheat and grapes. Olive trees have been grown around the Mediterranean since the 8th millennium BC. In 2019–2020, world production of olive oil was . Spain was the largest producer followed by Italy, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey and Morocco. San Marino has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide. The composition of olive oil varies with the cultivar, altitude, time of harvest, and extraction process. It consists mainly of oleic acid (up to 83%), with ...
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Amposta
Amposta () is the capital of the ''comarca'' of Montsià, in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, 190 km south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean Coast. It is located at 8 metres above sea level, on the Ebre river, not far from its mouth. Its population was 20,606 in 2018. The GR 92 long distance footpath, which roughly follows the length of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, has a staging point at Amposta. Stage 30 links northwards to L'Ampolla, a distance of , whilst stage 31 links southwards to the Pont de l'Olivar The Pont de l'Olivar is a bridge across the Sénia River in Spain. The northern side is in the municipality of Ulldecona, ''comarca'' of Montsià, province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia. The southern side is in the munic ..., a distance of . References External links Ajuntament d'AmpostaGovernment data pages Municipalities in Montsià Populated places in Montsià {{Tarragona-geo-stub ...
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Mallorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. There are two small islands off the coast of Mallorca: Cabrera (southeast of Palma) and Dragonera (west of Palma). The anthem of Mallorca is " La Balanguera". Like the other Balearic Islands of Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, the island is an extremely popular holiday destination, particularly for tourists from the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The international airport, Palma de Mallorca Airport, is one of the busiest in Spain; it was used by 28 million passengers in 2017, with use increasing every year since 2012. Etymology The name derives from Classical Latin ''insula maior'', "larger island". Later, in Medieval Latin, this became ''Maiorca'', "the larg ...
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Mató Cheese
Mató () is a fresh cheese of Catalonia made from sheep' or goats' milk, with no salt added. It is usually served with honey, as a traditional and emblematic Catalan dessert known as . Description and origin Mató is a whey cheese similar to non-industrial variants of the fresh cheeses known as ''Brull'' in Maestrat, Ports de Beseit and the Southern Terres de l'Ebre and as ''Brossat'' in Andorra, Pallars, Menorca, Mallorca and parts of Occitania, as well as the ''brocciu'' in Corsica and other types of curd cheese such as Italian ricotta. The Mató from the villages near the Montserrat mountain, such as Ullastrell and Marganell,Marganell Town Hall page
is quite famous. Mató is mentioned in the , a 14th-century Catalan cookbook, as well as in the ''
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