Market Stall · Seaweed and Shellfish
Laverbread with Cockles
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It's nicknamed 'Welsh caviar,' but laverbread isn't bread at all — it's a dark, slick paste made from boiled seaweed.
Laver seaweed is boiled for hours until it collapses into a soft, olive-black puree, then traditionally rolled in oatmeal and fried into little cakes, often served alongside cockles gathered from the Gower and Penclawdd sands. Swansea and Cardiff market stalls sell both side by side.
Why it's made this way: Coastal Welsh communities have gathered and cooked laver for centuries, turning a free, foraged shoreline resource into a distinctive local staple.
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