Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, menestra de verduras 🌱 spanish veggie soup or stew. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Menestra (Spanish Style Veggie Stew) (Vegan Too.!) Recipe by magpie diner. Another gem from the Moosewood Cooks at Home book. You can add or sub any veggies you like to this (green beans work really well).
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook menestra de verduras 🌱 spanish veggie soup or stew using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Menestra de Verduras 🌱
Spanish veggie soup or stew:
- Get 1 white or brown onion
- Make ready 1 courgette
- Make ready 1 chopped pepper (any colour or selection of coloured peppers)
- Get A few muchrooms
- Take A few peas or beans
- Take 1 handful seasonal greens
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic (crushed it sliced)
- Make ready 2 carrots
- Prepare 1 potatoes cubed or sliced (or a few small potatoes
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 1 sprig Rosemary
- Get 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
- Get A few olives
- Take A few artichokes
- Get A few stems of asparagus
- Get 1 splash olive oil
- Prepare 1 splash sherry vinegar (can sub for red wine vinegar if you prefer or even white wine)
- Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
- Make ready Parsley to garnish (optional)
But menestra usually means a dish of vegetables, so it's ideal for vegetarians. A menestra in Asturias can be a thick nutmeg-flavoured soup with artichokes, tiny onions, green beans, fresh broad beans, small potatoes and courgettes. And because it can get rather cold there, the vegetables are sautéed in lard and snippets of fatty bacon are added. A healthy menestra de verduras Menestra is a very traditional dish in northern Spain, especially around Navarra or La Rioja, where they grow many of the ingredients needed for this dish.
Steps to make Menestra de Verduras 🌱
Spanish veggie soup or stew:
- Heat a little oil in your pan and slowly sauté the onion until slightly jammy. Add the garlic and sauté for a could of minutes. Add the mushrooms and carrots and artichokes and continue for a further minute or 2.
- Add a splash of sherry vinegar, paprika and grate the tomatoes into the pan. Add the remaining veggies and beans or lentils if you are using and top with enough water (you can use stock if you prefer) to cover with an inch to spare. Simmer until the veg are cooked. Note: depending on the veg that you are using you can add to the pot in the time it will take them to cook. I add the greens at the very end. Top with a little more water if needed.
- Serve in a bowl as soup or stew and top with chopped parsley. You could serve as a side dish if you prefer.
If you travel to the province of Palencia; however, you can also find the Menestra Palentina, which is a version of the dish that incorporates lamb as well. This light stew (menestra de verduras) has many regional variations, and it can be made with different vegetables according to season. Constant ingredients include potatoes, carrots, and green peas; artichokes are the most characteristic. Artichokes, peas, asparagus, and parsley make this a very springlike stew. Menestra de verduras is a Spanish dish that cannot be easily classified - on the other hand, some might say that it's very versatile - it can be served as a side dish, a soup, or a stew, depending on the method of preparation.
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