Ingredient Focus: Valencia rice - Valencia is the spiritual home of Spain’s most famous dish – paella. Rachel McCormack visits The Albufera natural park to find out more about the rice it’s made from
(...) The single most famous dish from the whole of Spain is paella. Originally from Valencia, it’s a rice dish named after the pan it’s made in and was a fixed feature of the agricultural workers in the region, who would build fires from the wood of the fruit trees in the orchards that they were working in to make their meals. Using the vegetables of the region, snails and rabbit, the paella de la huerta (the vegetable garden) was the original Valencian paella (...)