If it has apple, tuna and cucumber, is it still a Mallorcan temple?

With the globalization of gastronomy and the modernization of traditional dishes, a large number of recipes and variations of this summer salad have emerged.

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The temple, the traditional dish par excellence of Mallorcan homes during the summer. Isaac Buj

Josep Genovard

03/07/2025

1 min

PalmSummer and the heat arrive, and temple becomes the quintessential dish in Mallorcan homes. Easy to prepare, refreshing, and made with local produce, it's the ideal accompaniment to all kinds of dishes, including bread with oil, another staple of outdoor dinners in Mallorca. This recipe is characterized by its simplicity: tomato, onion, and green pepper, cut into small pieces and seasoned with oil, salt, and a little vinegar.

The ingredients of the traditional Mallorcan temple recipe. Isaac Buj

The name of this dish comes from 'to tremble', and is therefore written with an "e". In recent years, with gastronomic globalization and the modernization of all traditional dishes, a large number of new recipes and variations of this summer salad have emerged.

Modernization has reached such a point that even cocktails simulating the flavor of the Mallorcan templeThere are still many who believe that a good temple should contain no ingredients other than tomato, pepper, and onion, but the number of recipes and variations that exist is infinite.