On the final Sunday of January, Benicarló hosts the gastronomic demonstration, wherein as much as 2,000 kilos of this flower are roasted. Since 1998, the municipality of Castellón has held the Denomination of Origin for this product, Benicarló Artichoke The Artichoke Festival, acknowledged as being of Tourist Interest Autonomous Community, celebrates its XXX version this 12 months
The artichoke is that ‘large thistle’ whose consumption dates again greater than 2,000 years and unifies a mess of properties in a single piece. Its manufacturing is concentrated, above all, within the Mediterranean areas and particularly in Benicarló (Castellón) the place this January probably the most conventional pageant devoted to this useful meals is widely known.
The municipality of Castellón has been internet hosting the Artichoke Festival for a number of years, with a program of socio-cultural occasions that culminate with a grandiose “torrà” (torrada) of this delicacy.
In reality, it has the respect of holding the Denomination of Origin for this product since 1998, Benicarló Artichoke, which stands out from the remainder for its flat and compact form and for exhibiting a peculiar dimple.
Its most particular pageant, acknowledged Festival of Autonomous Tourist Interest, celebrates its XXX version this 12 months and since January 12 it gives fashionable tastings of every kind of dishes made with this delicacy, in several eating places within the metropolis, a complete of 28 institutions .
This weekend we stay the large days of the ‘Carxofa’ (artichoke) Festival, and particularly this Sunday, when the nice gastronomic demonstration of this flower will happen, a day wherein they get to roast over wooden till 2,000 kilos of this vegetable.
Artichoke qualities
An genuine celebration devoted to the agricultural custom of this metropolis, the results of which is that this scrumptious and versatile product that properly deserves this cultural recognition.
Among the qualities of the artichoke, its edible half gives 12% carbohydrates, one sixth of which is made up of a really peculiar sugar, inulin, which is properly tolerated even by diabetics.
It additionally comprises calcium, iron, vitamin A, B1 and C, all kinds of parts that make it much more enticing. In addition, conventional medicinal properties are attributed to it, though with no scientific foundation, such because the favorable impact that its consumption can produce on liver and kidney capabilities.
The city of Benicarló has at all times had robust roots amongst farmers, which added to its gentle local weather makes it the perfect place to develop its most well-known meals. So a lot so, that the artichoke seems on town’s coat of arms, as a mirrored image of the significance that this product has had since historic occasions.