{"id":3005,"date":"2014-01-04T19:59:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T18:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2021-11-30T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:16:55","slug":"catalan-christmas-dish-galets-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/catalan-christmas-dish-galets-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan Christmas Dish: Galets Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the Christmas holiday period has come to an end, the galets soup is a dish eaten throughout the winter, because it is ideal to get warm and mitigate the effect of low temperatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/\"><strong>ShBarcelona<\/strong><\/a> shares a recipe with you, and, as a traditional Catalan soup, galets soup will make you feel right at home in the city.<\/p>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-104531\" style=\"max-width: 850px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-20-3 metaslider metaslider-responsive metaslider-104531 ml-slider\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_104531\">\n        <ul id='metaslider_104531' class='rslides'>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/long-term-rental\" target=\"_self\"><img width=\"850\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/en-3.jpg\" class=\"slider-104531 slide-104532\" alt=\"monthly apartment rental in barcelona\" rel=\"\" title=\"Banner medio temporada inquilinos\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/catalan-christmas-dish-galets-soup\/#What_is_galets_soup\" title=\"What is galets soup?\">What is galets soup?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/catalan-christmas-dish-galets-soup\/#How_to_prepare_sopa_de_galets\" title=\"How to prepare &#8216;sopa de galets&#8217;\">How to prepare &#8216;sopa de galets&#8217;<\/a><ul class=\"ez-toc-list-level-3\"><li class=\"ez-toc-heading-level-3\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/catalan-christmas-dish-galets-soup\/#Ingredients_for_galets_soup\" title=\"Ingredients for galets soup\">Ingredients for galets soup<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/catalan-christmas-dish-galets-soup\/#Making_this_Christmas_soup\" title=\"Making this Christmas soup\">Making this Christmas soup<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_galets_soup\"><\/span>What is galets soup?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Catalonia is tradition on Christmas Day to get reunited with the whole family and eat galets soup (also known as &#8216;escudella&#8217;), a broth of meat and vegetables with a type of snail shaped pasta with &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/traditional-catalan-recipes-escudella-i-carn-dolla\/\"><strong>carn d&#8217;olla<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;, the meat the broth has been made with.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3009\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/p1020862.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3009\" class=\"wp-image-3009 size-full\" title=\"p1020862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/p1020862.jpg\" alt=\"galets soup with meat and vegetables\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo via Pixabay<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8216;galets&#8217; have a hole, so people fill them with mince before they boil them, which adds flavor to this type of soup, already very tasty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The &#8216;carn d&#8217;olla&#8217; is eaten as a second course<\/strong>. The calorie level of this dish helps with the cold winter, therefore, we recommend that you prepare it at any time of the season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-large fasc-type-flat fasc-rounded-medium ico-fa fasc-ico-before fa-chevron-circle-right broken_link\" style=\"background-color: #850909; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/long-term-rental\" rel=\"nofollow\">Where to stay for a couple of months in Barcelona?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_prepare_sopa_de_galets\"><\/span>How to prepare &#8216;sopa de galets&#8217;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its preparation is very simple, but requires patience because the long time of the boiling process will give more flavor to the broth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you live in one of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">ShBarcelona rental apartments<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;during your stay in Barcelona and you want to feel even more involved with the city, or if you are a bad cook local inhabitant, we recommend you to follow this simple recipe to surprise your guests at a lunch or a dinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/catalan-recipes-panellets\/\">Catalan Recipes: Panellets<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107216\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107216\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beef-ge324f15f0_640.jpg\" alt=\"meat and vegetables for soup\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-107216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo via Pixabay<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ingredients_for_galets_soup\"><\/span>Ingredients for galets soup<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>ingredients<\/strong> for the &#8216;galets&#8217; soup and the &#8216;carn d&#8217;olla&#8217; are (for 8 people) :<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>a piece of rib of beef<\/li>\n<li>a leek<\/li>\n<li>tip pork chop<\/li>\n<li>average cabbage<\/li>\n<li>pig foot<\/li>\n<li>a handful of soaked chickpeas<\/li>\n<li>Barbed bone<\/li>\n<li>salt<\/li>\n<li>ham bone<\/li>\n<li>pepper<\/li>\n<li>quarter of a chicken<\/li>\n<li>water<\/li>\n<li>two pieces of bacon<\/li>\n<li>300 gr of galets<\/li>\n<li>two white and two black <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/where-to-find-the-best-german-sausages-in-barcelona\/\"><strong>sausages<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>flour<\/li>\n<li>4 potatoes<\/li>\n<li>150g minced beef<\/li>\n<li>2 carrots<\/li>\n<li>breadcrumbs<\/li>\n<li>a celery<\/li>\n<li>1 chopped garlic<\/li>\n<li>a parsnip<\/li>\n<li>parsley<\/li>\n<li>a turnip<\/li>\n<li>an egg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-large fasc-type-flat fasc-rounded-medium ico-fa fasc-ico-before fa-chevron-circle-right broken_link\" style=\"background-color: #850909; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/long-term-rental\" rel=\"nofollow\">Find your monthly rental via ShBarcelona<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Making_this_Christmas_soup\"><\/span>Making this Christmas soup<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the broth you have to put all the meat in a pot with cold water, except the sausages and the minced meat. Boil it for one hour and add the chickpeas and after another hour add all the vegetables except the potatoes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You have to respect the cooking time for each ingredient added to the broth, so that everything is fully cooked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the broth is boiling we can start preparing the &#8220;pilota&#8221;, a mass of meat that is added to the broth for it to be more tasty with minced beef, bread crumbs, garlic, parsley, pepper, egg and salt, everything mixed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3010\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Galets_farcits_amb_carn.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3010\" class=\"wp-image-3010\" title=\"Galets farcits de carn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Galets_farcits_amb_carn.jpg\" alt=\"filled pasta for galets soup\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo via Pixabay<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After another hour we add the potatoes, sausages, the &#8220;pilota&#8221; meat and some salt. Let it boil for half an hour and take off the vegetables and the meat from the broth and add the &#8216;galets&#8217; stuffed with minced beef to boil it again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The soup is served with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/fresh-pasta-barcelona\/\"><strong>pasta<\/strong><\/a> as a starter and vegetables, beans and meat that has been used for the broth are served as a second course, as I said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are several variations that can be introduced in terms of the ingredients for the broth or adding some ingredients when is served, but everything depends on the cooking time and, as my grandmother use to say, the love that you put in each step.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We hope you enjoy this dish!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Have you tried making this Xmas soup?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tell us if you liked the taste or if you added other ingredients!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"\n    class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-valign-bottom kksr-align-left \"\n    data-id=\"3005\"\n    data-slug=\"\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 150px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-legend\">\n            <strong class=\"kksr-score\">5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\/<\/span>\n        <strong>5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">(<\/span>\n        <strong class=\"kksr-count\">4<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\n            votes        <\/span>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Christmas holiday period has come to an end, the galets soup is a dish eaten throughout the winter, because it is ideal to get warm and mitigate the effect of low temperatures. 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