A name for a cockle. Cockles should be soaked in running water for a couple of hours to remove any sand.
Warty Venus clams. They should be soaked in running water for a couple of hours to remove any sand.
Rascasse. Red scorpion fish. A fish similar to a gurnard, mainly red or orange in colour, with a huge, ugly head and poisonous spiny dorsal fins. The large scaly head is inedible. However, this well-flavoured fish is most famous as an indispensable ingredient of bouillabaisse. It is found in deep waters throughout the Mediterranean and as far north as Brittany. Large fish may be baked, providing firm white flesh.
A Catalan stew with chickpeas (US: garbanzo beans) and haricot beans (US: navy beans), vegetables and meats cooked in broth like a pot-au-feu. As with many such dishes, the broth is often used to provide a soup as a first course, followed by the meats and vegetables as a main course.
A Catalan winter meat soup-cum-stew made with boiled meats including chicken, ham and veal, butifarra, beans and vegetables. As with many such dishes the broth is often served first, separately, and followed by the meats and vegetables as a main course.
