Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, menestra de verduras 🌱 spanish veggie soup or stew. It is one of my favorites food recipes. 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). It can turn into a bit of a fridge clearer at my house!
Menestra de Verduras 🌱 Spanish veggie soup or stew is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Menestra de Verduras 🌱 Spanish veggie soup or stew is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Menestra de Verduras 🌱
Spanish veggie soup or stew:
- Prepare 1 white or brown onion
- Make ready 1 courgette
- Make ready 1 chopped pepper (any colour or selection of coloured peppers)
- Prepare A few muchrooms
- Make ready A few peas or beans
- Take 1 handful seasonal greens
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic (crushed it sliced)
- Get 2 carrots
- Take 1 potatoes cubed or sliced (or a few small potatoes
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Get 1 sprig Rosemary
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
- Take A few olives
- Take A few artichokes
- Make ready A few stems of asparagus
- Make ready 1 splash olive oil
- Take 1 splash sherry vinegar (can sub for red wine vinegar if you prefer or even white wine)
- Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
- Take Parsley to garnish (optional)
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. 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.
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.
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. 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. "Menestra de verduras" is a wonderful dish, full of fresh vegetables and a bit of Serrano ham.
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