Q 01/05

Paella originally comes from which Spanish region?

A) Region of Murcia

B) Balearic Islands

C) Valencian Community

D) Castile-La Mancha

Answer · why

C) Valencian Community

Paella comes from the Valencian Community on Spain's east coast, where it developed among rice farmers and is regarded as one of the region's identify...

Q 02/05

Paella takes its name from what?

A) The Greek for harvest

B) The Latin for feast

C) A rice-growing village

D) Its cooking pan

Answer · why

D) Its cooking pan

Its cooking pan gave the dish its name: paella simply means frying pan in Valencian, and Valencian speakers use the word for every pan.

Q 03/05

Which large flat white bean is a traditional ingredient of paella valenciana?

A) Judión

B) Garrofó

C) Alubia pinta

D) Faba asturiana

Answer · why

B) Garrofó

Garrofó, a large flat white butter bean of the lima family, is one of the core ingredients of traditional paella valenciana, simmered with the meat be...

Q 04/05

Which of these is a traditional meat in paella valenciana?

A) Beef

B) Goat

C) Lamb

D) Rabbit

Answer · why

D) Rabbit

Rabbit is one of paella valenciana's ten basic ingredients, fried in the pan with chicken before the vegetables and rice go in.

Q 05/05

Which mollusc is a traditional ingredient of paella valenciana?

A) Mussels

B) Snails

C) Clams

D) Oysters

Answer · why

B) Snails

Snails went into early paellas because they were readily available in the fields around the rice paddies.