{"id":3233,"date":"2026-10-06T10:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/stewed-snails\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:40:16","slug":"stewed-snails","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/stewed-snails\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Llu\u00eds stewed snails"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3233\" class=\"elementor elementor-3233 elementor-3231 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-89a3b7b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"89a3b7b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7e7d2d1\" data-id=\"7e7d2d1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb73123 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"eb73123\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Can Llu\u00eds stewed snails<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64d1310 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"64d1310\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f924c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"5f924c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>.cl-pc{max-width:820px;margin:0 auto;padding:56px 20px 72px;color:#201E18}.cl-pc-lead{font-size:20px;line-height:1.6;margin:0 0 40px}.cl-pc h2{font-size:30px;line-height:1.25;color:#3E3F24;margin:48px 0 20px}.cl-pc h2:after{content:\"\";display:block;width:56px;height:2px;background:#BA8747;margin-top:14px}.cl-pc-time{list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;border-left:2px solid #E7E1D4}.cl-pc-time li{margin:0;padding:0 0 22px 22px;position:relative}.cl-pc-time li:before{content:\"\";position:absolute;left:-6px;top:8px;width:10px;height:10px;border-radius:50%;background:#BA8747}.cl-pc-year{display:block;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:14px;color:#723736;margin-bottom:2px}.cl-pc-press{list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;display:grid;gap:14px;grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr}.cl-pc-press a{display:block;height:100%;background:#F6F2E9;border:1px solid #E7E1D4;border-radius:6px;padding:18px 20px;text-decoration:none;color:#201E18}.cl-pc-press a:hover{border-color:#BA8747}.cl-pc-out{display:block;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#3E3F24}.cl-pc-date{display:block;font-size:13px;color:#7A7660;margin:2px 0 8px}.cl-pc-tt{display:block;font-size:18px;line-height:1.35;font-weight:700}.cl-pc-more{display:block;margin-top:10px;font-size:15px;color:#723736}.cl-pc-cta{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;margin:44px 0 0}.cl-pc-cta a{display:inline-block;padding:14px 26px;border:1px solid #3E3F24;color:#3E3F24;text-decoration:none;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:.04em}.cl-pc-cta a.cl-pc-main{background:#3E3F24;color:#fff}.cl-pc-note{margin:40px 0 0;padding:16px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #E7E1D4;font-size:15px!important;line-height:1.55!important;font-style:italic;color:#6E6A55}@media(max-width:767px){.cl-pc{padding:36px 20px 56px}.cl-pc h2{font-size:25px}.cl-pc-press{grid-template-columns:1fr}.cl-pc-cta a{width:100%;text-align:center}}<\/style><style>.cl-dish{display:grid;grid-template-columns:2fr 3fr;gap:32px;align-items:start;margin:8px 0 0}.cl-dish figure{margin:0}.cl-dish img{display:block;width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:4px}.cl-dish h2{margin-top:0!important}.cl-dish-price{font-size:22px;font-weight:700;color:#723736;margin:14px 0 0}@media(max-width:767px){.cl-dish{grid-template-columns:1fr;gap:20px}}<\/style><div class=\"cl-pc\"><p class=\"cl-pc-lead\">Bover snails stewed with spicy chorizo and cured pork belly, served in an earthenware dish. One of the house classics, at Carrer de la Cera, 49.<\/p><div class=\"cl-dish\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/can-lluis-cargols-guisats.jpg\" alt=\"Can Llu\u00eds stewed snails in an earthenware dish\" width=\"779\" height=\"1169\"><\/figure><div><h2>How we make them at Can Llu\u00eds<\/h2><p>At Can Llu\u00eds we use bover snails. We stew them with spicy chorizo and cured pork belly on a sofregit of onion, pepper and tomato, moistened with meat stock. We add sweet piment\u00f3n de la Vera and a little chipotle chilli, which gives a gentle, smoky heat. It is a dish made for mopping up with bread.<\/p><p>Our snails come from Marc Molleja, who raises them in Vilassar de Mar, on the Maresme coast just north of Barcelona, and feeds them on herbs and natural produce. In the kitchen we first boil them with aromatic herbs, then finish the cooking with chorizo and cured pork belly, so they take on all the flavour of traditional cooking.<\/p><p class=\"cl-dish-price\">\u20ac18.90<\/p><\/div><\/div><h2>A little history<\/h2><p>Snails are among the oldest foods we have: people have eaten them since prehistory. The Romans already farmed them, and in the Middle Ages they stayed on the table as food for Lent and for Fridays, when meat was forbidden. In the nineteenth century they reached grand tables: the story goes that Talleyrand had Car\u00eame cook a dish of snails to impress the Tsar of Russia.<\/p><p>Catalan cooking has always prized the cargol bover, the common garden snail, for its plump, juicy meat. It is cooked a la llauna (on a metal tray), over embers or stewed, nearly always starting from a sofregit and often finished with a picada, and it is paired with rabbit, pig\u2019s trotters or cured sausage. It is a dish for feast days and village gatherings, but also for inns and taverns.<\/p><p>They are eaten with the fingers, picked out of the shell with a pin or a toothpick, with bread to mop up the sauce. Tradition wants them spicy and with wine on the table. The Catalan sayings put it plainly: \u00abSi vols menjar cargols bons, amb for\u00e7a salsa i picantons\u00bb (for good snails, plenty of sauce and a bit of heat) and \u00abCargols sense vi, no els vull per a mi\u00bb (snails without wine are not for me). And one more: \u00abPel maig, els cargols a raig\u00bb \u2013 in May, snails by the bucketful. Fittingly, May is when Lleida holds the Aplec del Cargol, a huge gathering devoted to eating them, during its main festival.<\/p><p>Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n, who wrote Can Llu\u00eds into his Pepe Carvalho stories, included in <em>La cocina de los mediterr\u00e1neos<\/em> a dish of \u201ccargols llepats\u201d: snails stewed on a sofregit of onion and tomato with pork belly and botifarra sausage, which he says should taste both sweet and spicy. The same book has pig\u2019s trotters with snails, the pairing behind our own trotters dish.<\/p><h2>Also on the menu<\/h2><p>If you like them, try the stewed pig\u2019s trotters with snails too (\u20ac22.50), a traditional inn stew, rich and intense.<\/p><div class=\"cl-pc-cta\"><a class=\"cl-pc-main\" href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/reservations\/\">Book a table<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/menu\/\">See the menu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/our-dishes\/\">All our dishes<\/a><\/div><p class=\"cl-pc-note\">Further reading: <em>Cuina catalana<\/em>, by Borja Sierra and \u00d2scar G\u00f3mez (Montagud Editores), and <em>Hist\u00f2ria de la cuina catalana i occitana<\/em>, vol. VIII, by Vicent Marqu\u00e9s (Edicions Sidill\u00e0, 2025), and <em>La cocina de los mediterr\u00e1neos<\/em>, by Manuel V\u00e1zquez Montalb\u00e1n (Ediciones B, 2002).<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3230,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3233","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can Llu\u00eds stewed snails - Can Llu\u00eds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/canlluis.com\/en\/stewed-snails\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can Llu\u00eds stewed snails - 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