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Arroz a banda is the Alicante fishermen's rice cooked in a strong stock of rockfish and ñora, served on its own with allioli, and found on seafront menus all over Benidorm; in Spain we have verified places to eat it in Benidorm and Valencia.
Arroz a banda · Benidorm
Arroz a banda is the Alicante fishermen's rice cooked in a strong stock of rockfish and ñora, served on its own with allioli, and found on seafront menus all over Benidorm.
Arroz a banda is a rice dish of Alicante province: fishermen boiled cheap, bony rockfish (morralla) with ñora peppers for stock, cooked the rice in that stock separately, a banda, and ate the fish another day. Like other Alicante rices it starts from a salmorreta of ñora, garlic and tomato. On Benidorm's beaches it is a standing order: Ongi Etorri Manolo 1 on Poniente names it among its specialities, Ducado lists it beside its lobster rice, and El Barranco cooks it for two or more.
Where to eat in Benidorm:
- Ongi Etorri Manolo 1
- Ducado
- El Barranco
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Arroz a banda · Valencia
Arroz a banda is Valencia's seafood-stock rice, cooked in a fish broth made from rockfish, served alone with allioli on the side: a sailor's rice from the Cabanyal fishing quarter.
Arroz a banda emerged from the Cabanyal fishermen who could not sell the small rockfish (morralla) at market. They cooked the rice in the fish stock until the broth was absorbed, then ate it with allioli on the side. The name (banda = separately) refers to the fish being served apart from the rice, in the older tradition. Modern Valencian restaurants serve the dish without the fish, just the deeply-flavoured rice with allioli, at La Riua, Casa Carmela and the El Palmar restaurants.
Where to eat in Valencia:
- La Riua
- Casa Carmela
- La Pepica
- Rausell
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