Scottish food is as varied as the country itself. Aberdeen and the North East area has indeed a rich and varied food heritage and a distinctive cuisine, often based on very traditional foods.
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The Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, North East and Grampian area has long been known for its fresh, fine quality food. So many Restaurants in Aberdeen and the North East area offer typical Scottish recipes with their own twist of originality and flair. Such great creativity delights the taste buds.
Try local free range Chicken stuffed with locally made Haggis or Black Pudding served with a whisky sauce, this is a firm favourite, Cullen Skink, a smoked Haddock soup made to traditional recipes with onions, potatoes and cream. A Scotchman's Treat, which to the layman is Sticky Toffee Pudding ? a very Moorish delight.
The famous Aberdeen-Angus breed of beef cattle has a full and rich flavour and is renowned for tasty meat, which makes excellent steaks. Good butchers will still hang and prepare meat in the traditional manner, and Scotch Beef has always retained its distinctive taste. Aberdeen, Grampian and the North East area is not only about Aberdeen Angus Beef there is so much more.
- A wide variety of sea food including prawns, mussels, scallops, shrimp, some of the World's finest lobster and crabs, and varieties of fish like Haddock, Cod, Salmon, there are too numerous to mention
- Soft fruit including raspberries, strawberries, Tayberries and brambles (blackberries)
- Vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, turnips, cabbages, cauliflower
- Succulent Lamb from the Hill Pastures
- A host of locally produced cheeses, including Cheddars from Aberdeenshire
- Venison from the great Highland Estates, and increasingly from specialist farms
- Game Birds such as grouse, pheasant, partridge and wood pigeon
- Ostrich - hardly traditional, but there are Ostrich farms in Scotland!
It is amazing that so much fantastic food can come from a country as small as Scotland. In Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, the North East and Grampian region, the fertile soil and climate gives the area a variety of wholesome and natural foods.
High quality meats, grains, vegetables and fruits that helps keep us at the forefront of the International food industry, and has made us famous for creating some of the finest authentic Scottish recipes and delicacies which are sought after around the world.
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