Ca'n Boqueta

Sóller, Spain

Ca'n Boqueta sits on the Gran Via in Sóller, a town in the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range north of Palma, accessible by the historic wooden tram that runs from the port. Chef Xisco Martorell has earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand for cooking that updates Mallorcan tradition rather than abandoning it. The restaurant occupies a typical Mallorcan townhouse with a rear patio looking out over the valley and its orange groves. Sobrassada appears across the menu: as a starter spread on bread, inside pastry courses, and alongside black pig preparations where the sausage and the roast share the same animal. The tasting menus change with the season, but the Mallorcan black pig and its cured products remain a constant. The kitchen sources porc negre sobrassada from island producers and uses it at every stage of the meal from snack to main.

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Sausages served here

Sobrassada de Mallorca

Mallorca, Balearic Islands

Sobrassada is a raw cured sausage from Mallorca, spreadable at room temperature and coloured deep rust-red from a large quantity of ground sweet paprika. The mixture of minced pork, paprika, salt, and black pepper is stuffed into natural casings and left to cure over weeks, during which the fat softens and the paprika distributes through the meat until the whole mass becomes a dense, unctuous paste. It spreads onto bread with a knife, melts into eggs in the pan, and disappears into sauces. The version made from porc negre, Mallorca's native black pig, carries a richer fat and a deeper flavour than the mainland-breed equivalent. Two EU protected designations cover the product: IGP Sobrassada de Mallorca for the standard version using commercial white pigs, and the more restricted IGP for sobrassada made exclusively from the island's black pig. Both designations require production on the island. The black pig version is sold with a black label and costs considerably more. Neither version is cooked before eating. The casing is split, and the contents are scooped or sliced onto whatever is being eaten.

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