Gastronomy of the Valle de Ricote Curiosity · Ricote, Valle de Ricote, Murcia Image of Ricote, not of the place itself. The villages of the Ricote Valley make their own version of the paparajote without a lemon leaf, with a batter of egg, milk and flour similar to a fritter, alongside other huerta dishes such as wheat stew and rice with rabbit, a legacy of the Morisco and Mediterranean cooking of the comarca. Photo: Ugo Cuesta (CC BY-SA 3.0) What to see and do in Ricote