The XI Popular Tuna Tasting will begin with the clotxa

Hospitalet de l'Infant. Costa Dorada. The XI Tuna Days L'Hospitalet de l'Infant will start on Sunday 11 April with the celebration of the Fifth Day of the Tuna until 30 May. Beginning at 11am, Plaza de la Marina de L'Hospitalet de l'Infant stage once again be a fun and festive day in which attendees can taste the traditional clotxa tuna, a sea-mountain recipe combining seafaring tradition of L'Hospitalet de l'Infant with the traditions of the interior villages of the municipality. The tuna is a clotxa bread, which he removed the spring and fills up the tuna and other ingredients typical of the peasantry as a ratatouille made with tomato, eggplant and pepper. The 11 chefs participating in the Conference of Tuna prepared hundreds of clotxes, accompanied by a wine tasting wine consulting Stilvins. The price of the ticket is 2 euros. In addition, there will be a children's entertainment show, titled 'Qsarau' and sold various stops where typical products of our land. The Conference 2010: tuna, cooking classes and draws The Tuna XI will be held between 11 April and 30 May. During these four weeks, 9 restaurants of the town (Deviteca, Donatello, The Solomillo, porca Misery, Boat Restaurant, anti, Olla, La Caleta and Puerto del TOPOLINO), 1 Pratdip (La Cocina de Carlos) and 1 Tivissa (Missamaroi) provide specific menus with tuna as a protagonist. The chefs of these restaurants have prepared a variety of dishes, with tuna as a main ingredient, once again demonstrate the creativity of the restaurateurs and the versatility of this fish (eg tuna cannelloni with tomato cream sauce ; tuna tataki, tuna and shrimp and skewered on a mirror with garlic saffron rice). Its unique flavor and mellow texture of the meat again be the basis of very different recipes from all sorts of amazing tastes. Among all the people who taste these recipes, be drawn on 2, 3 and 4 June, 44 dinners and 100 for two tickets to Port Aventura. In addition, during the workshops, chefs who take part will offer free cooking classes during the months of April and May, where you can learn to prepare their creative recipes. To participate, you must register before 15 April at the Tourist Board. The groups will be 12 people maximum. Tuna, flagship product of the municipality Tuna is the product for gastronomic excellence Hospitalet de l'Infant. It is a fish with all that entails nutritional assets. The flavor is very unique products in March The texture is hard, but a very mellow texture that gives the fat that accumulates at the moment it is caught, when in full migration to warmer waters to lay their eggs. Precisely in this lies the migration to its link with the town. Formerly, during his trip to warm waters, the tuna is caught using a technique called "Almadraba" which was to encircle the fish with nets to catch them with harpoons. Because this system was effective, Cali beaches shaped bay and not too deep, a feature of the coast of L'Hospitalet de l'Infant (actually, one of the emblematic beach town called "The Almadrava , which in turn also gives its name to a town center). For hundreds of years, this has attracted fishermen from all over the Mediterranean that took advantage of the characteristics of the local beaches to fish tuna, just at a crossing as the Costa Dorada. The presence of these fishermen left a great gastronomic tradition and a very important mark of identity. Regarding its development, tuna house with all the typical products of the Mediterranean diet. This allows a wide range of dishes such as, for example, clotxa tuna mousse, roasted with various combinations, the carpaccio or tartare marinated. Uniqueness and versatility are therefore the main attractions of the tuna.  

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