Our Indoor Calçotada
With the post about how to grow calçots I realised we hadn’t actually eaten any of ours yet! What’s that all about? So today I prepared a mini calçotada lunch for two. It ended up being very windy – always the way if you intend to burn anything outside – so we stayed indoors. Unauthentic but similarly enjoyable!
As this was indoors cooking I did wash most of the mud from the calçots and I rubbed a teeny tiny amount of olive oil onto them. I understand this is not the done thing in an authentic calçotada outdoors extraveganza, but hey its my kitchen so I can do whatever I like!
I made a quick romesco sauce using leftover garlic bread from 
last night (how frugal am I?). We grilled the lightly oiled calçots on a large griddle pan (see Mrs T, we do use it) until charred and very soft. Alongside we had the first proper Spanish potato tortilla I’ve ever made with success. Wow what a gorgeous lunch! As you can tell I enjoyed it immensely though I have to say it is more fun eating calçots outside just because they’re so damned messy.
It looks like the wild asparagus is starting to sprout so the next few weeks will see an awful lot of romesco sauce eaten – as it tastes fab with grilled asparagus spears too. I’ve had a few spears raw while I’ve been wandering the finca but am looking forward to it in abundance in omelets, pasta, salad – oh anything really!
Oh my, I sound like a terribly greedy gardener! I do enjoy eating it’s true! If you haven’t got any calcots try using large juicy spring onion/scallions or even young leeks. We’ve tried all versions and though calcots win out overall we do admit the alternatives are pretty darned tasty too. So if you’re thinking its too cold or windy to celebrate a sprouted onion fiesta just do it inside instead! Just make sure there are plenty of napkins for everyone’s messy chins.
Updated March 09 – A great accompaniment to your feast of delicious calçots is an authentic Spanish Tortilla. And, boy did I publish the definitive recipe for you!
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No, you don’t sound greedy at all! There’s no point growing vegetables if you don’t enjoy eating them. This all sounds wonderful – I love romesco sauce and will try it with wild asparagus, which will be coming up here soon.
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I didn’t realise you’d get the wild asparagus there too. It’s yum isn’t it – and fab that its free. We pulled up loads on our arrival here not realising what it was – but luckily its still rampant on lots of the terrace edges. We even get a Wednesday gang of ‘poachers’ who pick it to sell every week!
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