
Arroz a banda
Arroz a banda for 4: ñora and baby cuttlefish sofrito, double the fish stock to rice, dry in the paella pan, fish served apart with potato and allioli.
Total time: 24 min
Rice dishes
Here are the paella and rice recipes of Valencian cooking: paellas, dry, brothy and baked rice dishes, each with its own portion calculator and downloadable shopping list. You can begin with the Valencian paella, the reference recipe, move on to arroz a banda, try the baked rice or the arroz con costra, so typical of the Elche area. For spoon rice, there is the rice with Swiss chard and white beans and the rice with veal trotter, cooked in an earthenware pot. If you are unsure about the difference between textures, it is explained in creamy, soupy and dry rice. Every recipe cites its public sources and lists the known variations. Before you light the fire, get to know the history of paella and rice in Spain. If you would rather have them arrive at your table than cook them yourself, discover our paella catering and live cooking, designed for family meals, fiestas and companies.
If you fancy a rice with meat and vegetables, try the rice with pork and vegetables, with its portion calculator and shopping list.
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Arroz a banda for 4: ñora and baby cuttlefish sofrito, double the fish stock to rice, dry in the paella pan, fish served apart with potato and allioli.
Total time: 24 min

Arroz con costra: a rabbit and sausage rice cooked for 8 minutes in the earthenware pot and finished with beaten egg in the oven or under a costrera.
Total time: 46 min

Arròs amb fesols i naps is a Valencian pot rice: pork, white beans, pencas and turnip cooked slowly, and the rice added at the end, without overdoing it.
Total time: 796 min

Arroz del senyoret for 4: cuttlefish, peeled king prawns and monkfish in a reddish sofrito, twice as much fish stock as rice, all ready to eat with a spoon.
Total time: 50 min

A casserole rice baked in the oven with pork ribs, chickpeas and meatballs, the Sant Blai dish in Torrent. It isn’t the seafood rossejat, made with fish stock.
Total time: 65 min

Baked rice, or arròs al forn, is a dry earthenware-dish rice with pork ribs, black pudding, chickpeas and potato, finished in the oven until golden.
Total time: 25 min

Brothy chicken and rabbit rice is home-style spoon food: browned meat, flat green beans and garrofón, and rice cooked in four times its volume of water.
Total time: 47 min

Fideuà de Gandia for 6: 600 g of number 3 noodles, about 2 litres of rockfish stock, monkfish, cigalas and red prawns, cooked in a paella pan, with allioli.
Total time: 17 min

Lenten paella is a rice dish of desalted salt cod and cauliflower for 3 servings: everything is sautéed in the paella pan and cooked with fish stock.
Total time: 317 min

Creamy lobster rice for 5 servings, with a ñora and garlic paste, a splash of brandy and hot fumet: a restaurant dish for a special day.
Total time: 15 min

Green rice from the Vega Baja for 4: artichokes, broad beans, new potato and green garlic in vegetable stock, with salted, seared fresh anchovies on top.
Total time: 75 min

Bomba rice with lean pork, artichokes, cauliflower, green beans and chickpeas in rib stock: boil, convection oven and rest. Serves 4.
Total time: 22 min

Rice with rabbit and snails is a countryside rice from inland Alicante: fried rabbit, purged snails and a fire of vine prunings, as in Monóvar.
Total time: 60 min

A meat-free spoon-dish rice: soaked white beans, Swiss chard, potato and saffron, with the rice added last. Pressure cooker or not; eat it straight away.
Total time: 625 min

Creamy earthenware-pot rice with boiled veal trotter, chickpeas, black pudding and chorizo: the trotter’s stock moistens the rice. From Alicante.
Total time: 108 min

Seafood paella, or paella marinera, for 4: monkfish, tuna, prawns and clams with fumet, the cigalas laid on top at the end and a 5-minute rest.
Total time: 28 min

Black rice for 4: baby cuttlefish, ink, small-fish fumet and bomba rice, finished in the oven at 180 °C and served with allioli.
Total time: 30 min

Valencian paella with chicken, rabbit, flat green beans and garrofó for 4, using Turisme Comunitat Valenciana’s water-mark method and a final rest.
Total time: 60 min