Baked rice

Ingredients

Pork ribs 1/2 kg
Dry onion blood sausages 1/4 kg
Head of garlic 1
Tomatoes 2
Rice 250 gr
Medium potatoes 2
Cooked chickpeas 125 gr
Oil and salt.

Preparation

In a clay pot, sauté the meat, dried blood sausages, and garlic. Next, sauté a tomato and briefly toast the rice in the pot. Slice the second tomato and sauté it as well. Add double the amount of water, season, and pour in the pre-cooked chickpeas. Slice the potatoes, fry them, and arrange them along with the sliced tomato on top of the rice. Bake until the top is golden brown.

Alicante City of Rice

“Alicante, Ciudad de Arroz” is a project designed to highlight the city’s exceptional culinary tradition, with rice as its star ingredient.

Rice is undeniably the main attraction of Alicante’s gastronomy. In fact, you could enjoy a different rice dish every day of the year. From dry and soupy rice dishes to creamy (meloso) rice, paired with seafood, vegetables, meat, or fish. Alicante’s finest products from the sea and mountains blend harmoniously with this essential ingredient to bring you the best of the flavorful and healthy Mediterranean diet. These rice dishes, all prepared with Mediterranean passion, can be perfectly paired with the renowned Alicante DOP wines.

Baked rice is a dish of popular origin, traditionally made with leftovers from stew. It can also be prepared directly using delicious kitchen ingredients.

The peculiarity of this rice, as its name indicates, is that it is cooked in the oven. And, like paella and other Valencian rice dishes, it is also a dish of popular origin, which in this case was made from stew leftovers. That’s why ingredients such as chickpeas, pork ribs, and blood sausage are never missing. This dish is especially typical in regions like La Costera, where in Xativa a National Baked Rice Contest has been held for several years.