1. ASTURIAS
ASTURIAS
ASTURIAS
Gastronomy and
Festivities
Trabajo realizado por: Ainhoa López
Prada.
BY AINHOA LÓPEZ PRADA.

2. BREAD
 Borona (cornbread or round loaf of bread made ​from cornmeal)
 Rapa (cornbread stuffed with bacon bits)
 Neno, ( Pie filled with Asturian saussage , ham and boiled egg)
 Tortos (small corn cakes golden in pan)
 Formigos, Tradicional escanda bread (Asturian cereal with tough
grain).
 Bollos preñaos (buns stuffed with highly seasoned sausage )

3. FRUITS AND
VEGETABLE
S
 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
 Faba or Asturian bean: Main ingredient of the
typical Fabada asturiana (beans stew). It’s also
used in the Asturian stew which includes
cabbage, potatoes and black sausage.
 Wild mushrooms: Collected in the forests of
our region.
 Apples: Our most remarkable fruit, essential
element for making cider.
 Cherries, strawberries and figs

4. FISH AND SEAFOOD
 FISH
monkfish
hake
bass
scorpionfish
mullet
eels
 sardines
 SEAFOOD
lobsters
crabs
urchins

5. MEAT
 Cattle and sheep are essential ingredients of our most
successful Asturian dishes
 Asturian tripes
 Beef stew and larded meat
 Breadcrumbed filled steak
 Lamb stew
 Lamb barbecue on a spit
 Roast lamb
 Pito de caleya or wild chicken
 Cured Pork is usually served accompanying traditional
stews: Chorizo (seasoned sausage), fariñón, bacon,

6. CHEESE
 Traditional ingredient in the gastronomy of our region.
 More than forty different types of cheese which are
made of cow, sheep or goat’s milk, even combined in
different proportions.
 Cabrales (strong blue cheese), Gamonedo (cow,
sheep and goat’s milk cheese) and Afuega’l Pitu (cow’s
milk cheese) are three excellent varieties which have
obtained European Guarantee of Origin.
 La Peral, Los Beyones or Oscos are types of cheese
associated with other areas of our región.
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7. DESSERTS
 Rice pudding
 Creps
 Fried milk
 Casadiellas (pasties filled with walnuts,
sugar and anise liquor)
 Carbayones (cakes made of egg yolks and
almonds typical in Oviedo)
 Marañuelas from Candás (cookies made
of eggs, sugar, flour and butter)

8. FESTIVITIES
 Holy Easter: Its processions are popular
and different from other towns.
 San Félix: August, 1st.
 San Antonio: June, 13th.
 Tuna fish festival: 2nd or 3rd week of
July
 San Roque : August, 16th
 Santísimo Cristo de Candás: September,
14th.