The canonical version and where to order it.
Benidorm's own rice: fresh anchovies and spinach cooked with rice in a ñora, garlic and tomato picada, served soupy, a recipe the tourist office lists among the town's traditional dishes.
The tourist office lists rice with fresh anchovies and spinach among the recipes Benidorm families have passed down for generations, and the version it publishes comes from Una Cuina de Tots, a cookbook from the Associació de Festes Sant Antoni. It joins two things the town had to hand, inshore fish and huerta greens, and is cooked in a caldero and usually served caldoso. Food writers name it as the dish to look for in Benidorm, and El Barranco keeps it on its rice list on Poniente beach.
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El Barranco is a seafront rice and fish house on Poniente beach in Benidorm, cooking arroz a banda, arroz del senyoret and rice with anchovies and spinach.
OrderArroz con boquerones y espinacas, Benidorm's own rice, for at least two.
TipRice dishes are made for at least two; a local quoted by Guía Repsol picks the salt-baked fish and the grilled baby squid.
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