Valencian cuisine
Valencian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine as cooked in the Valencian Community, Spain. It can be regarded as part of both Catalan cuisine in that it shares almost all its dishes with Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, and more generally as part of Spanish cuisine. It's basic ingredients are vegetables, seafood and meat. It is famous worldwide for its rices, such as paella, and its citrus fruits.
Main dishes
- Paella
- Arròs negre (paella with squid ink)
- Fideuà (noodles)
- Arròs amb crosta (rice, meat, covered with egg)
- Arròs a banda (rice, fish, and sweet potato)
- Embotits (Cured sausages)
- Bollit (Vegetable stew)
- Suquet de peix (eel, potatoes, garlic and fish stew, similar to Bouillabaisse)
- All i pebre (paella with eels typical of Valencia and the surrounding areas)
- Esgarrat or Esqueixada (Roasted vegetables with salted cod)
- Espencat or Escalivada (Roasted vegetables)
Sauces
- Allioli (a garlic sauce)
- Mullador or "Samfaina" (Catalonia) or "Tomacat" (Mallorca) (Ratatouille)
Sweets, apératifs, desserts and drinks
- Pa amb tomàquet (Bread smeared with tomato)
- Pestinyos
- Arnadí typical of Xàtiva
- Coca (pastry) (a kind of pizza or pie, both sweet and savoury, typical to Valencia, Catalonia and the Balearics)
- Coques de dacsa (similar de to Mexican tortillas, and topped with all kinds of titbits).
- Arròs i tallaetes
- Fartons (pastry fingers to be dipped in orxata)
- Orxata (a drink made of tiger-nuts, quintessentially Valencian and produced only in the area of Alboraia, just north of Valencia)
- Torró (a kind of nougat, typical of Xixona and Alicante)
- Figues albardaes (a kind of fig fritter that are traditional in falles)
- Bunyols (sugar-coated dough-balls, often made with pumpkin)
Wines and Liquors
Valencian wines are also well-regarded, particularly those from Utiel-Requena, Alicante, and the city of Valencia. In county Costera, (capital Xàtiva), champagne is made under the cava denomination. Meanwhile, muscat (known as "moscatell") is produce in the Marina Alta (near Denia).
See also
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