Internship 2022 : Typical dishes of Barcelona

Catalan gastronomy is famous for its great combination of sea and land, with high quality products, positioning its restaurants as the best in the country, ideal to have a complete experience with your internship… By tasting the typical dishes of a region you can discover cultural history, traditions and unique flavors, take a risk and always try everything, let yourself discover the world!

Crema Catalana

Although it sounds like a soup or the beginning of your meal, it is actually a dessert, a delicious typical Catalan dish, it is an egg based cream with lemon, milk and cinnamon, covered with a layer of caramelized sugar, when you eat it you break that layer with a spoon and when you take it to your mouth you feel a unique explosion of flavors. What gives it its more traditional touch is that it is usually served in earthenware containers. Perfect to start the day and be full of energy to start your work internship hours.

Mel I Mató

One of the simplest and most typical desserts, but full of flavor, it consists of a fresh cheese and low in fat to which honey is added, the two flavors blend and present a pleasant texture to the palate, sometimes some people accompany this dessert with nuts such as: almonds or pistachios.

Coca

An exquisite dessert although little recognized among foreigners, consists of a small dough like pizza that is then filled to taste, the most common is to fill it with cream and nuts. Since you are doing your internship in Barcelona, it is advisable to immerse yourself completely in the culture.

Catanias

Sweet tooth? Then you will love this dessert, caramelized almonds coated with cocoa powder, a small and simple dessert, without realizing it you would eat a thousand, as soon as you try the first one you won’t be able to stop.

Panellets

A sweet little ball that can be eaten as a snack or even for breakfast, it is a baked dough ball made of egg, sugar, almonds and pine nuts, finally the sweet is what gives it the round shape and gives it the image of a cookie. They come from the Arab pastry and you can find them in the market in different flavors such as chocolate, orange or strawberry.

Braç de gitano

This dessert actually looks like a cake or sponge cake, it is a dough of flour, sugar and egg, this is baked and covered with cream or in some cases with chocolate, then it is rolled, which gives it the shape of a sponge cake, it is very common to cover the top with more sugar, perfect if you want something sweet after eating.

Pa De Pessic

Its name translates pinch bread, it is said that its name is because it is a very fluffy dessert then it can be known to pinch, it is a sweet sponge cake ideal for any time of day, like when you leave your internships, a delicacy that you have to try to understand the explosion of flavors, Catalan families usually enjoy this dessert with a delicious cup of chocolate.

Nougat from Agramunt

Sweet made with honey, egg white and sugar, it is a tradition to prepare it at Christmas, the tradition comes from the seventeenth century with the people of Agramunt in the region of Urgell who prepared it by hand, a custom that even in the twenty-first century is maintained by the Catalan community.

These are some of the desserts not to be missed if you take your internship with AnimaFest in the Catalan region, give yourself that guilty pleasure of eating sweet, break the diet to experience the gastronomy of Catalonia, definitely you will not regret it!