Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, menestra de verduras 🌱 spanish veggie soup or stew. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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).
Menestra de Verduras 🌱 Spanish veggie soup or stew is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Menestra de Verduras 🌱 Spanish veggie soup or stew is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have menestra de verduras 🌱 spanish veggie soup or stew using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Menestra de Verduras 🌱
Spanish veggie soup or stew:
- Prepare white or brown onion
- Prepare courgette
- Take chopped pepper (any colour or selection of coloured peppers)
- Make ready muchrooms
- Take peas or beans
- Prepare seasonal greens
- Get garlic (crushed it sliced)
- Take carrots
- Make ready potatoes cubed or sliced (or a few small potatoes
- Make ready bay leaf
- Make ready Rosemary
- Prepare sweet paprika
- Get olives
- Prepare artichokes
- Get stems of asparagus
- Make ready olive oil
- Make ready sherry vinegar (can sub for red wine vinegar if you prefer or even white wine)
- Make ready Salt and pepper
- Take Parsley to garnish (optional)
The dish itself is quite simple - filled with fresh, seasonal vegetables such as asparagus, peas, artichokes, green beans, olives, potatoes, white beans, turnip. 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.
Instructions 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.
This classic Spanish vegetable stew, menestra de verduras, has many regional variations, and can be made with different vegetables according to season. Constant ingredients include potatoes, carrots, and green peas; artichokes are the most characteristic. Fresh artichokes are called for in traditional recipes, but using the canned or frozen variety simplifies the process. Origin: Spain and other origins Menestra is one of those dishes that has the rather dubious honour of being one of the most hated dishes by children in the country yet one of the most loved dishes by Spanish mothers. The basic dish is mostly made of boiled vegetables, and Spanish children like so many of their peers in the world, love nothing more than hamburgers or roast chicken and. spanish vegetable stew "This classic stew, menestra de verduras, has many regional variations, and can be made with different vegetables according to season.
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