Agroaldea
Agricultural markets promote a campaign to purchase this year's Christmas basket with products from the island.
The Cabildo of Gran Canaria and the Association of Agricultural Markets, Yesterday, ranchers and fishermen presented the baskets with local products from the island of Gran Canaria for this Christmas..
The baskets are composed of wines, cheese, honeys, jams and mojos and sauces from almost all municipalities. The initiative is now in its third edition and has been quite successful in previous campaigns.
The insular counselor Primary Sector and Food Sovereignty, Miguel Hidalgo, and the president of Agricultural Markets, Maria del Carmen Perez, They stated yesterday that The best way to boost the island's agricultural economy is by giving away local products.
Seventeen producers (five more than last year) They participate by contributing twenty items to the Gran Canaria Christmas basket.. For this, the markets of La Granja de Arucas, Vecindario and El Pagador de Moya will sell these baskets starting 30 EUR, the basic, up to 100 the most select with star or gourmet products, passing through the 40 o 50, always to the consumer's taste, you can also choose the merchandise.
You can request the product catalog by email at basketsdenavidadgrancanaria@gmail.com.
Among the new features are the figs stuffed with almonds dipped in chocolate, blackberry liqueur, raisin and almond cookies or gofio and walnut nougat with raisins.
There are other articles, until now only sold in restaurants as male vinegar, appreciated wrinkled potato dressing, gazpachos, mojos, sauces and other dressings.
Also, wines and cheeses with international awards are added to the Christmas basket, like the wineries of Santa Brígida, Agaete and Tejeda, the cheese factories of San Bartolomé and Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Agüimes or the capital of Gran Canaria, Temisas and Tirajana oils, Telde and Valsequillo jams, Guayadeque honey, the sweets of Ingenio or the sighs of Moya and the typical bread and cookies of the island.