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   List of bars and restaurants of Pego
   List of bars and restaurants of the valleys

   PEGO FOOD CALENDAR:
   - Every Thursday: market day at Plaça del Mercat and Plaça de l’Antic Regne de València. Especially tasty are the coques escaldades (maize or wheat pancakes with hard-boiled egg, tuna or prawns) and the coques de llanda (the small pizza-like savoury topped flat breads, with different ingredients such as peas, onion and peppers) that are on sale in the local bread and cake shops.
   - Throughout the year, rice is the basic ingredient of Pego cuisine: arròs amb fesols i penques rice with kidney beans and Swiss chard), arròs caldós (rice stew) and paella. The typical dish is La Crosta (a rice dish cooked in the oven with an egg crust). On the eve of Ash Wednesday, the town prepares for the arrival of Lent with this dish. Other noteworthy specialties are: l’espencat (a delicious cold dish of baked peppers, aubergines and tomatoes, seasoned with olive oil and a touch of crushed garlic) and els figatells (grilled flat meatballs).
   - Easter: pea and onion patties or ones with tomato, red pepper and egg are typical. There is also a large variety of sweets and pastries such as la mona (bun with hard-boiled egg) and St Vicente sponge cake.
   - Christmas: sweet potato pastries and fritters.

   ADSUBIA:
   The most popular dishes are: arroz con costra, paella, puchero valenciano, “cocas escaldadas”, olleta...

   LA VALL D’ALCALÀ:
   Olive oil, wheat, maize, vegetable, goats’ milk, farmyard foul, lamb, pork and cured sausages have traditionally formed part of the diet tof the inhabitants of this valley. Typical dishes are: “minxos” (flatbead freshly baked in a pan that allow all sorts of fillings), the “blat picat” (a stew with grains of ground wheat that resemble couscous) and rice with lentils.
   As far as sweets are concerned try the fritters, baked pumpkin, honey cake, “mostaxuts”, “rosegons” and aniseed rings.

   LA VALL D’EBO:
   The best known dishes of this valley are the “puchero” (stew) and rice with beans.