The
Gastronomic Vila
Our culinary tradition has a popular seafood character. The authors don’t get annoyed with seafood, but they sell the best of what they capture to purchase potatoes or rice. This way the thickness of the traditional seafood recipes incorporate stews and rices to the seafood contributing flavour and proteins, while the number of formulas with a good portion of fish as the main character is reduced. They are culinary tradition with a bourgeois component which practically hasn’t existed in the Valencian Community.
The king of the seafood rices, which you can find in restaurants, is the “arròs a banda” (rice apart, in valencian), made with a fish stock and nothing else, however, some versions contain pieces of squid or prawn tails. The rices should be tried as they have an unquestionable flavour of seafood.
One of the main marks of identity of seafood gastronomy is salted fish. If tuna was the pig of the sea, why does pantry fill up like it, the salted fish are the sausages of the fisherman, with its ancestral techniques based on the use of salt learnt to conserve the surplus of fishing concentrated on fixed periods. Apart from salted tuna or spawn, salted fish are usually eaten as a bar snack or `tapa´, others more modest, like the `melva´or the `sangatxo´, intervene in succulent cuisine contributing to the intensity of the flavour to the `pebrereta´ (sauce) or salads and “espencats”.
The cocas form part of a very mediterranean family, with relations in Italy: pizza. In Villajoyosa you can find the following in bakeries: `cocas, floreadas, rellenas, escaldadas´. A typical spice which originates from here and is made from coca is `bollet a la lloseta´
In Villajoyosa, apart from the deeply rooted chocolate industries, there is a peculiar handmade sweet: `el turrón a la piedra´ (nougat) The creaminess and vivacious touch of lemon makes it irresistible. The specialities of the diverse handmade ice-creams are nutritious and an excellent antidote against the severe summer. Other traditional products include: `mantecado´ (lardy cake), bun, `horchata´ (Culin sweet drink made from tiger nuts and sugar) and iced drinks.
The two essential elements which make up the identity of Vilera are cuisine and the sea. A sea which evokes aromas and flavours. Cuisine with colours and wisdom. The flavour and the knowledge of the Mediterranean, all of which can be found at the length and width of our geography with a wide selection of the finest restaurants and a variety of establishments where you can sample our flavours.
Don’t hesitate to visit us and you will have the opportunity to discover all of the sensations which the gastronomy of Villajoyosa has to offer.
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