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Welsh cakes being cooked on a griddle at Swansea Market

 Traditional local and Welsh dishes

• Welsh cakes (Traditional, fruited griddle cakes)
• Bara Brith (Spiced fruitcake)
• Bara Brith ('Speckled bread')
• Teisen Lap (Spiced fruitcake)
• Cockles with laverbread
• Cockle cakes with laverbread and bacon
• Glamorgan sausages (Traditional, meatless sausages)

Local ingredients

 Breads and cakes

• Welsh cakes with roasted apricots and welsh cake ice cream
• Bara brith with baked plums and yoghurt ice cream
• Teisen Lap with lavender honey-baked figs

Welsh Black Beef

• Roast rib of Welsh black beef with oxtail, onion puree and ceps
• Carpaccio of Welsh black beef fillet
• Welsh Black bavette steak with café de paris butter

Lamb and saltmarsh lamb

• Roast loin and braised shoulder of salt marsh lamb
• Salt marsh lamb, samphire and broad beans, with balsamic meat juices
• Welsh honeyed lamb
• Lamb stew with rosemary dumplings

Fresh laverbread for sale at Swansea Market

Fish and seafood (see below for sewin and cockle recipes) 

• Roast sea bass with a parsley and caper sauce
• Beer-battered pollack bites
• Grilled grey mullet with garlic, lemon and thyme
• Baked black bream stuffed with herbs

Sewin (sea trout)

• Potted sea trout with dill
• Sewin and soused vegetables with cockles
• Poached sea trout with sorrel hollandaise

Cockles

• Penclawdd cockle chowder
• Cockle cream with bacon, tomatoes and potatoes
• Pan-fried turbot with cockles and oxtail

Cheeses

• Goats' cheese terrine with caramelised apples
• Glazed goats' cheese and beetroot, salad of Welsh herbs
• Welsh goat's cheese and leek tart
• Caerphilly rarebit with warm plum relish