Balearic cuisine

Bakery and confectionery

• Unsalted bread
• Ensaïmada: Lard- based pastry sprinkled with powdered sugar.
• Flaó: Cottage cheese tart. The recipe includes eggs, cottage cheese, sugar and mint. The mixture of savoury and sweet flavourings may reflect Arab influence from the Islamic past of the islands.
• Coca: Similar to Italian pizza but without cheese. Typically, Majorcan varieties include julivert, pebres torrats, and trempó.
• Easter baking products
• *Panades: lamb and pea pasties.
• *Robiols: cottage cheese- or jam-stuffed pastries
• Crespells are a Majorcan kind of biscuits.

  Vegetables

• Tombet: Fried courgettes, potatoes, eggplant and red peppers baked in tomato sauce. Tumbet is related to similar Mediterranean dishes such as samfaina or ratatouille.
• Fava parada: Fava bean and mixed vegetable puree
• Trempó: made of pepper, onion and tomato; eat with mussels, in coques, as a salad, etc.
• Sopes mallorquines: made of vegetables, broth, and bread slices.

  Meat

• Sobrassada sausage
• Mè rostit, porcella rostida: lamb and piglet roasts
• Auberginies farcides: Eggplants or zucchinis stuffed with minced meat
• Arròs brut: "Dirty rice" - meat, vegetables, rice and spices cooked in a meat broth.
• Arròs de la terra: bulgur with local specialities as botifarró, etc.
• Macarrons amb gravi: penne in a sauce similar to British gravy

  Fish

• Caldereta: Lobster stew
• Baked fish, such as anfós
• Arròs de peix: rice cooked in a fish broth with fish pieces

  Fats

• Olive oil is the most commonly used fat in Balearic cooking. Butter is used sparingly, even in dishes frequently relying upon butter in other parts of the world, e.g., ous ferrats
• Mayonnaise is called all i oli, 'garlic and oil' in Catalan. Some historians argue that mayonnaise originates from Mahon, the capital of the Balearic island of Menorca.

  Other

• Maó cheese: a hard cow's milk cheese similar to Grana Padano or Parmesan)
• Red wines from the Binissalem and Plà i Llevant areas.
• Caragols: Snails are eaten as a stew. It also contains meat, potatoes, and fennel. Snails are also eaten sometimes in paella.