Gastronomy
Get to know the gastronomy of Lleida through its flavours, smells and textures that come off its kitchens and are a reflection of a fertile and generous land. Enjoy its local and quality products with its own personality: fruit, snails, grilled meat, sausages, olive oil, wine DO Costers del Segre ...
Catalunya World Region of Gastronomy
This year 2025, Catalonia will be the World Region of Gastronomy. The first European region to receive this distinction. The recognition confirms the consolidation of an innovative and regenerative tourism model where the gastronomic revolution of Catalonia opens the doors to discovering the territory and local and unique food production. It is an initiative promoted by the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism (IGCAT).
The City Council of Lleida, through its tourism promotion department, Turisme de Lleida, proposes a calendar of dynamization and promotion of gastronomic activities to exalt the values of Lleida in an agri-food key. The city will exercise its capital status to highlight its gastronomy, oenology and “Horta de Lleida”, understood as a hub of sustainability and discovery. “Horta de Lleida” facilitates access to food framed in ecology, proximity and, in short, zero-kilometre products. Lleida is, indisputably, the agri-food capital of Catalonia. We have a cuisine that speaks of history, landscapes, the people who inhabit them, their customs, life, past, present and future. The mention of Catalonia as a World Region of Gastronomy is the recognition of this value and represents an invaluable opportunity to position ourselves as a benchmark in gastronomic tourism. Through an action plan that combines the promotion of local products that this immense vegetable belt gives us, with unparalleled values and effort, the development of unique experiences, and the commitment to sustainability, Lleida can consolidate itself as a leading tourist destination in Catalonia and in the world.
L'Horta de Lleida
The market garden provides vegetables for dishes whose main ingredients are meat from the farm and, above all, pork. It should be highlighted that the counties of Lleida are leaders in breeding and fattening this animal.
Wine and Oil with DO
Lleida's wine (DO Costers del Segre) and olive oil (DOP Les Garrigues) are top-quality products recognised at a world level.
Lleida is a member of the Lleida Wine Route which promotes the wine tourism in the lands of Lleida.
Snail cookery
Lleida is the capital of snail cookery. Snails can be cooked "a la llauna" (on metal plates, eaten accompanied by allioli or vinaigrette), with "samfaina" (green pepper and tomato sauce), "a la brutesca" (on a stone tile with burning straw placed on top of them), "a la gormanta" (fried with flour, salt and pepper)... The Aplec del Caragol (Snail Jamboree) culinary festival is the greatest example of this native Lleida cookery.
Sweets and baking
One of the most typical products prepared in the ovens of the city's bakeries is coca de recapte, a kind of flatbread which is topped with escalivada, tuna or cod and then baked.
An enjoyable way of trying out some of Lleida's pastry and confectionary is to follow the festival calendar and try the traditional fare: panellets sweet-meats for All Saints's Day, Easter mona cakes during Holy Week and sweet coca flatbread with crystallized fruit for the feast of Sant Joan or delicious Granados, an almond sweet named in honour of the famous musician and composer who was born in Lleida.
Others
Wild mushrooms: When talking about autumn cookery we must not forget the wild mushrooms from the counties of Lleida: saffron milk caps, blue spot knights, grey knights, field mushrooms..
Cod: Fish par excellence from the inland regions that you can taste it a la llauna, au gratin with apple and garlic mayonnaise, with ratatouille, with honey ...
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