The chickpea from Escacena It is a yellowish white chickpea, buttery, with soft and fine skin, of great finesse on the palate and a pleasant flavor. The chickpeas show a minimum caliber of 8 mm, the grain morphology being elongated and flattened on the sides. They present irregularities on their surface with deep grooves and bulges.
The chickpea from Escacena del Campo de Tejada
The chickpeas from Escacena they are category extra, characterized by its superior quality and excellent characteristics. Both in shape and in appearance, development and coloration. Its skin remains adhered to the grain during cooking, not presenting starch clumps.
Su ease of preservation make it suitable for consumption throughout the year, forming part of traditional dishes. With meat, vegetables and fish, appetizers or oriental dishes already included in our kitchen. Such as hummus and falafel, as well as baked goods and desserts.
This chickpea from Escacena It is grown in the historical region known as Tejada field. It is an area of countryside, geographically located in the provinces of Huelva and Seville, its natural limits being Sierra Morena to the North and the CN-431 Sevilla-Huelva to the South.
The nature of cultivated soils is of the type topomorphic vertisol, high clay content, with great moisture retention capacity. Also a high richness in bases, being known as 'black lands' and 'bush lands' in both provinces, respectively. The sowing is carried out between January and April, being its harvest in the summer. When the humidity of the grain is below 13%.
Enjoy the IGP
The link between the chickpea from Escacena and the Campo de Tejada region it is based on reputation, derived from the high quality of the local ecotype. Also of the long tradition of cultivation in it, so that the farmers of the area are perfect connoisseurs of the best techniques and the selection of the most suitable lands.
El chickpea from Escacena presents the European distinctive of Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), being his Regulatory Council the management body, which certifies the quality and origin of the product.
The controls of the Regulatory Council they cover the production and processing cycle, the cultivation plots, the selection and, finally, the packaging. All packaging of chickpea from Escacena They carry a guarantee seals numbered and issued by the Regulatory Council.
Currently, the Andalusian Cooperative Society Campo de Tejada is the only marketer approved by the Regulatory Council. In recent years, the production of chickpea from Escacena it has increased to 645 tonnes in 2016.
