The document summarizes the tradition of the calçotada, a spring party in Catalonia centered around eating calçots (a type of sweet onion) and romesco sauce. It describes calçots and how they are grown, provides a recipe for traditional romesco sauce, discusses artichokes as another vegetable commonly eaten at calçotadas, and outlines how a calçotada party is prepared and enjoyed, with people gathered around a barbecue dipping calçots in romesco sauce.

1. THE CALÇOTADA

2. INDEX
1. What are calçots?
2. What is romesco sauce?
3. Another traditional vegetable: The
artichokes
4. The calçotada party.

3. CALÇOTS
• The calçots are a sort of sweet
onions.
• Farmers plant them at the end of
winter. They collect the onions in
spring and the bulbs in summer.
• Farmers usually plant them in
the Tarragona province.
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4. • To grow them, we need a good land,
water and sun.
• We can eat them in winter and until the
end of the spring.

5. ROMESCO SAUCE2.

6. What is Romesco sauce?
• Romesco is the sauce that we eat with calçots.
In fact, we dip the calçots in romesco.
• This is something that you never tasted before.
• It is thick with lumps and it is red and orange.

7. Recipe
1. 1 head of garlic.
2. 500g. of tomatoes.
3. 300g. almonds.
4. Some hazelnuts.
5. Two mint leaves.
6. Two breakfast cookies.
7. One piece of bread.
8. 35g. Of vinegar.
9. One spoon of salt.
10. 1l. Of oil.

8. Steps
1. Grind one head of garlic and
500g. of tomatoes.
2. Grind 300g. almond, some
hazelnuts and the two mint leaves.
3.Grind the two breakfast cookies
and a slice of bread.

9. 4.Add 35g. of vinegar to the mixture
and one spoon of salt.
5. Pour 1l. of oil.
6. Mix all the ingredients with a blender

10. ARTICHOKE
• The arctichoke is a vegetable that we eat in the
calçotada.
• The artichoke is a plant which grows in places with
mild climate.
• It sometimes grows with thorns .
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11. ORIGIN
The artichoke comes from the south
of Europe, including Spain.

12. DESCRIPTION
• This plant lives for four or five years.
• It grows up to two meters in height.
• The top of the leaf is green and the
lower part is white.
• Artichokes grow from the end of
october until the spring season.
• It needs lot of water.

13. THE CALÇOTADA PARTY
What do they need to prepare the calçotada?
• Barbecue
• Hot coal
• Different types of cold meat (side dish or appetizer):
chorizo, fuet, black pudding, serrano ham or cheese.
• Vegetables: calçots, tomatoes, artichokes, peppers,
garlic, escalivada( baked peppers, onions, zucchini, egg
plants), asparragus and boiled beans.
• Sausages.
• Good weather.
• Family or friends.
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14. How do we eat it?
• You need to wear a special bib.
• Take the calçots with your hand.
• Dip it in the romesco sauce .
• Look up and put it in your
mouth.
• Remember that you also have
sausages, vegetables and a
dessert to eat.
ENJOY YOUR
CALÇOTADA!

15. THANK YOU!!
SEE YOU SOON!
By Year 6
Anselm Clavé School