SKU: 1370

Calçots (bunch of 25)

£18.25

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We have a special shipment of Calcots arriving every week from 15th February. The Calçotada is an annual event in Valls, Catalonia celebrating the harvest of Calçots. They are grilled over a hot fire, wrapped up in newspaper, served on terra cotta tiles and eaten, after peeling with bare hands, by dipping them one by one in romesco sauce and are accompanied by red wine and bread. Then follows a course of grilled meat and white beans. For dessert, oranges and white cava are served.

The origin of “Calçot” is they way the sprouts of garden onions are planted, covering them with earth so a longer portion of the stems remained white and edible. That action is known in Catalan as calçar, (a Catalan agricultural term which means to cover the trunk of a plant or vegetable with soil. As the plant grows, soil is continuously added, i.e., “calçar”), hence the name calçot.

 

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Available from 22nd February

The Calçotada is one of Catalunya’s most traditional of festivals. Celebrating the unusual Calçot, a type of onion, similar to a leek and spring onion, but very different too! Tradition is that they are charred over burning coals, wrapped in newspaper and served with Romesco sauce, followed by lots of char-grilled meat.  This is a bunch of 25 Calcots. They are highly seasonal and should be available until the end of March

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Product Size: Bunch of 25