National cuisine restaurants offer a range of interesting meat and vegetable dishes. Local chefs cook true masterpieces from fruits of the sea. As a dessert, people of Bastia prefer not pastries but terrific cheese plates with wine. Pork is the most typical ingredient in meat dishes. It can be baked with vegetables, roasted on an open fire or grilled with fragrant herbs. Homemade sausages and ham are no less popular, and homemade liver sausage is a true hit and local delicacy. The latter is cooked in accordance with an old recipe that chefs prefer to keep in secret.
Fans of exotic food will fall in love with roasted wild boar meat – even experienced gourmets find this meal outstanding. Besides pork, local chefs prepare fantastic food from goalting meat. Various vegetable salads and snacks are a nice garnish to meat dishes. Local chefs like adding wild herbs and spices to various salads, making them taste quite exotic. Salads with anise, sorrel, and basil, with premium olive oil as dressing are worth the highest praise. National soups are also quite original. The taste of many of them is hard to compare to any other dish. Green beans, dandelions, various vegetables, and wild herbs, as well as delicious homemade bacon and tender meat, are just some of the typical ingredients.
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