Catalan Meals in Barcelona, Enjoying a Traditional Catalan Meal
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Are you planning a weekend break to the Catalan capital in summer? There are many hotels Barcelona for you to rent, but be warned, there’s a lot of food you need to try when you get there… At the top of my list is fideua. This delicious dish consists of noodle like food, which are shorter and straighter than the type of noodles we’re used to and come with a healthy serving of alioli sauce, which is made from garlic cloves, olive oil and eggs, with the same consistency of mayonnaise. After you’ve tried this traditional starter, move onto calçolts. These delicious Calçots are milder and less bulbous than onions and have a length of between 15/25 cm (white part) Calçots are then vine roasted and dipped in salvitxada sauce or romesco, and accompanied by red wine or cava. The charcoal is used to roast pieces of bread and meat after cooking the calçots. In Britain, as a general rule, people like their meat and two vege. So next, move onto a selection of “botifarra amb mongetes”, that is bound to fill you up. This dish is a large helping of sausage with white beans and is truly one of the dishes at the heart of catalan cuisine. For dessert, try out the Crema Catalana. Probably the most Catalan dessert on the menu, it is made from a delicious concoction. The custard is created with egg yolks, milk or cream and flour and is flavoured with sugar, lemon and orange zest and cinnamon. This crème brûlée-like dessert means you’re bound for a treat if you order it, which comes with caramelized sugar on the top. Finally, after filling yourself up with delicious catalan cava and lambrusco (pink sparkling wine), why not wander back through the streets of Barcelona in the warm summer air until you get to your Barcelona hotels. Stop off at one of the shops to buy another bottle of lambrusco, to carry on the catalan experience at home. 
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