If after reading our last article about Celebrating Easter in Majorca you’ve just realized you need to know more about it before visiting the island, you should keep reading.
No doubt, Majorca shines not just cause it’s an incredibly beautiful island, but for its traditions too. Said that, we also have to say that all of our traditions have food as the main star. We don’t know if it’s due to the lovely taste of the “ensaimadas”, the water they put on the paste that makes every meal delicious or the love that people puts in it. Really don’t know. But what we know for sure is that each one of the bites makes you love the island and its people more and more.
We highly recommend you that, if you’d like to spend an Easter in Majorca, follow the following advices and we can promise you that, if you do, you’ll enjoy it.
What to eat during Easter in Majorca | Majorca’s Easter
Easting in Majorca is like a rite. The receipes are older than time and they go hand through hand in the families. You won’t find two similar “frits mallorquins” nor two “sopes mallorquines” that taste the same, so you won’t be repeating the same food ever.
During Easter in Majorca it’s really common to eat pork meat, specially “sobrassada or botifarrons” and sheep meat on the known “frits mallorquins” (main dish during Easter in many Majorcan Villages). Sweets are also specially present. We can enjoy the delicious “rubiols” (pasta filled with mermelade, cottage chease and other sweet fillings), the small (or big) “crespells” (cookies made with the same paste as the rubiols and sugar covered) and the “confits” (hard candies with different shapes and colors that have almonds inside).
On the other side there are also the salty food in which we can find the crusty “panades and cocarrois”.
The panades are delicious pies filled with pork meat, rabbit, chicken or sheep that are usually accompained by peas. Eventhough these are the traditionals, nowadays you can make them with everything: fish, chicken with onion, sobrassada, etc. There’re docens of flavors to try and we’re sure that all of them will awake a different sensation.
The cocarrois, on the other side, usually keep their traditional receip. They’re made with the same pasta as the Panades and have a half moon shape. They’re filled with vegetables and end up being a great dish for the vegetarians.
Besides, you should remember that during Lenten Fridays it’s forbidden to eat meat, so people have been creative in the kitchen during years preparing dishes that fill a lot and that are made of vegetables or fish.
Sa Jaia Corema, a Majorca’s Easter Icon
If there’s something that represents well Easter in Majorca’s Easter traditions it’s, no doubt, “Sa Jaia Corema”. Sa Jaia Corema represents the 7 weeks of Lentn through an old lady figure that has 7 legs and 7 teeth. This old lady holds cod in a hand and a vegetables basket in another one. A curiosity is that, long time ago, at the Plaça de Cort in Palma people used to do a feak real size old lady that was cut in half when Easter arrived. All of it while the public was laughing and applauding.
Nowadays the tradition continues at schools and through family. Kids sing a song every week to honor Sa Jaia Corema while they take a leg away from her. This represents that there’s a week less for Easter.
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