Here are the two best tomatoes from Mallorca in 2021
In a salad, on crispy toast, in a refreshing gazpacho... we love tomato in all its modalities. But find a tomato juicy and tasty It is an art that only true lovers of good food master.
First rule: the more perfect, the more likely it is to be tasteless. With that starting point, go from market to market looking for this mediterranean fruit par excellence becomes a risk sport that not all diners are willing to practice.
Pink tomato from Finca Can Xalet, one of the winners
For this reason, in order to put before our eyes the greatest relics of the garden, the Mallorca International Tomato Contest , which, for sixth time , he has award for tomato excellence.
the founder of this contest, Tiffany Blackman, she longed to remember the explosive sensation of eat a “real” tomato , and her dream came true when, for work reasons, a few years ago she contacted many agricultural producers of the island, who still cultivated in an artisanal way native varieties.
The judge , made up of recognized professionals from the gastronomic sector of Mallorca, met yesterday, July 27, in the Botànic restaurant -the first Plant Forward restaurant on the island- to carry out a commented tasting of 17 tomatoes of different varieties -see the ramallet tomato, the pink tomato, the cor de bou, the cherry, the lots of honey, the raff or the salad tomato-.
Winners? The ramallet mateta dry land of the Finca Son Joan Jaume (Manacor) and the rose of the Finca Can Xalet (Saint Eugenie).
What aspects have determined the final verdict? After cutting the specimens in segments and in sheets, the members of the jury tasted the tomatoes both natural as seasoned with Aubocassa oils and Flor d'Es Trenc salts , in order to check your texture, flavor, point of acidity, thickness of its skin and smoothness of its meat. Its smell and appearance have also been two decisive factors.
The award-winning dry-farmed ramallet mateta tomato from Finca Son Juan Jaume
In addition to Tiffany Blackman, Laura Bald , responsible for Image and Communication of Flor d'Es Trenc; Joseph Vilaseca , territorial delegate of ONCE in the Balearic Islands and member of the gastronomic society The Redcoats; James James , agricultural engineer and author of an interesting research on the ramallet tomato; and Andrés Benítez, chef of Botànic , have been the gastronomic hedonists who have been part of this edition.