Specialty: calçots
Name: Cal Ganxo Restaurant
Address: Cal Ganxo. Masmolets. Valleys
Province: Tarragona
Phone: 977605960
Website: www.calganxo.com
In Cal Ganxo, the calçot is the protagonist
masmolets It is a district far from the nucleus of the population of Valleys (Tarragona). To speak of her in the region is to speak of Cal Ganxo, the main house of masmolets. This restaurant is synonymous with calçots. Here they serve one of the best calçotados of Catalonia. In addition, they do it throughout the season of this product, that is, from November to April. In a rural environment and surrounded by fields, they offer you excellent calçotas with a magnificent product endorsed by the PGI Calçots de Valls.
The typical calçot menu consists of these onions unlimited, with a sauce type romescu (sauce that they prepare with excellence in the place). It is followed by a meat grill accompanied monks (bean) Y artichokes also roasted. For dessert they offer you fruit of the season and Catalan cream.
About the calçot
It is a sweet onion of the late variety of Lleida. When this onion is planted, it is covered several times with soil so that part of the plant remains White. The fact of covering it (trace in Catalan) gives the name to this product recognized throughout the community. The shorts must have a optimal size ranging in diameter between 1,7-2,7 cm, measured 5 cm from the base. It is also important that the white part be between 15-25 cm.
The way of roast them It is simple, but some aspects must be taken into account. They should not be roasted with firewood, they should always be used vine shoots. Bill fire to roast them must be lively, since this way they burn from the outside but not the inside. The idea is that they are exquisitely tender. Once roasted, the calçots they wrap themselves in diary paper or they are put on clay tiles to maintain the temperature.
This technique allows them to continue cooking and hot when served. The diner must peel the onion of the burnt and black part. Of course for eat inside, that is to say, the white and tender part. This delicacy should be eaten with its sauce, which must include local ingredients. For example, him tomato asado, ñoras, almonds and a few hazelnuts. All this well chopped in the preparation, it is ideal to accompany.
Go to Can Ganxo to taste the best sweet onions in the region.
