Botifarra is a type of sausage

Sausage

A sausage is a food usually made from ground meat , mixed with salt, herbs, and other spices, although vegetarian sausages are available. The word sausage is derived from Old French saussiche, from the Latin word salsus, meaning salted.Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made...

 and one of the most important dishes of the Catalan cuisine

Catalan cuisine

Catalan cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine from Catalonia. It may also refer to the shared cuisine of Roussillon and Andorra, which has a similar cuisine to the Alt Urgell and Cerdanya comarques, often referred to as "Catalan mountain cuisine"...

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

• Raw botifarra, botifarra vermella or botifarra crua, or roget. It is also known as llonganissa in many places of the Catalan cultural area
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  The Catalan term Països Catalans refers to the territories where the Catalan language is spoken.The first mentions of the term date back to the late 19th century, but it never surpassed the limits of a small circle of Catalan authors until its strictly cultural dimension became increasingly...
  
  . 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 fat-less meat (carn magra ). It does not contain any blood in its mixture.
• Rice botifarra, botifarra de arroz, contains boiled rice
  Rice
  Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...
  
   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 tripe.

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 recipes, either the Roman sausage botulu or the lucanica, made of raw pork and spices, with variants today in Italy and in the Portuguese

Portuguese language

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 and Brazil

Brazil

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Botifarra is best known on the Caribbean coast of Colombia in a town called Soledad inhabited by Spaniards. Botifarra is a very popular dish eaten there with bollo de yuca and lime juice.

Botifarra is also very popular in Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...

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External links

• Recipe in English of Catalan botifarra vermella
• Botifarra