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Melón de Vilafranca

Meló de Vilafranca

🗓 julio-septiembre; los de guardar hasta diciembreVilafranca de BonanyMaria de la SalutSanta Margalida

About this dish

Dry-farmed melon grown in the Pla, with local varieties such as the rough-skinned, white-fleshed meló d'Alger. Harvested in high summer, it keeps hanging until Christmas. Vilafranca has devoted a fair to it since 1975.

Main ingredients

  • meló d'Alger
  • meló eriçó

When it's eaten

Postre, con jamón, o en la sobremesa de verano

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