What is better than staying in the Valencian spirit for your paella ?
Here is the typical starter, eaten in our region of Valencia…
It is a simple salad. And the paella goes well with the Valencian salad. It is a Romaine salad with black and green olives, good green tomatoes cut into large pieces, sweet onions from Valencia, oil and vinegar.
And as for the paella, it is a salad that everybody eats normally in the same dish !
Its secret lies in the freshness and the quality of products from vegetable gardens of the region (the Huerta de Valencia).
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Ingredients
- 1piece Salad: "Romaine" lettuce
- 6piece Tomato: still a little green
- 2piece Onion: very sweet
- 100g Green olive
- 2tbsp Olive oil
- 2pinches Salt
Instructions
- Wash the lettuce, with plenty of water, and make sure there is no dirt or little bugs left.
- Cut it into regular pieces.
- Wash the tomatoes and cut them into 6 pieces.
- Peel the onion and cut each of its halves from top to bottom, into thick slices in the shape of a half moon.
- Mix everything in your dish, and pour in the following order : salt, according to your taste, and olive oil (a lot).
- Finally, add the olives.
Recipe Notes
Little tricks : cut the lettuce at the very last moment, if possible, and the same goes for the seasoning: pour the oil as late as possible.
Variant of the Valencian salad :
As for the paella, the recipe changes according to the season but also from family to family, which often give a personal touch.
It is VERY common to find many other ingredients in the Valencian salad.
Here are some of them...
- Tuna
- Onions in vinegar, of orange colour
- Cucumbers
- Asparaguses
- Corn
- Green peppers in vinegar (as our pickles except it is peppers)
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Anchovies