Botifarra

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For the card game, see Botifarra (card game).

Grilled botifarra vermella

White botifarra doesn't need to be grilled

Botifarra (Catalan pronunciation: [butiˈfarə]) is a type of sausage and one of the most important dishes of the Catalan cuisine.

It comes in different versions, some of the most representative are:

Raw botifarra, botifarra vermella or roget. It is also known as llonganissa in many places of the Catalan cultural area. This botifarra grilled and served with white beans is an emblematic Catalan dish (botifarra amb mongetes).
Black botifarra, botifarra negra or negret.
Botifarra catalana, large botifarra similar to cooked ham; it may contain truffles.
Botifarra d'ou, containing egg in the mixture.
White botifarra, botifarra blanca or blanquet. Its main ingredient is fatless meat (carn magra ). It does not contain any blood in its mixture.
Rice botifarra, botifarra d'arròs, contains boiled rice together with meat and spices.
Bisbe and bull, as well as Bisbot negre and bull negre, are thick blood botifarra varieties made with different sections of the tripe.^[1]

Botifarra and white beans (botifarra amb seques) is a typical Catalan dish. A few pieces of botifarra are one of the main ingredients of the traditional Catalan Escudella i carn d'olla, a basic dish made by boiling vegetables and meat.

Botifarra is based on ancient dishes, either the Roman sausage botulu or the lucanica, made of raw pork and spices, with variants today in Italy and in the Portuguese and Brazilian linguiça.

Botifarra is also very popular in Honduras. It is also commonly referred to in Spanish oral exams in Iceland.