Menestra de Verduras 🌱 Spanish veggie soup or stew
Menestra de Verduras 🌱 Spanish veggie soup or stew

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, menestra de verduras 🌱 spanish veggie soup or stew. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a 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 well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Menestra de Verduras 🌱 Spanish veggie soup or stew is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook menestra de verduras 🌱 spanish veggie soup or stew using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Menestra de Verduras 🌱

Spanish veggie soup or stew:

  1. Take 1 white or brown onion
  2. Get 1 courgette
  3. Make ready 1 chopped pepper (any colour or selection of coloured peppers)
  4. Prepare A few muchrooms
  5. Make ready A few peas or beans
  6. Prepare 1 handful seasonal greens
  7. Take 3 cloves garlic (crushed it sliced)
  8. Get 2 carrots
  9. Make ready 1 potatoes cubed or sliced (or a few small potatoes
  10. Get 1 bay leaf
  11. Take 1 sprig Rosemary
  12. Get 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
  13. Prepare A few olives
  14. Make ready A few artichokes
  15. Take A few stems of asparagus
  16. Get 1 splash olive oil
  17. Prepare 1 splash sherry vinegar (can sub for red wine vinegar if you prefer or even white wine)
  18. Get to taste Salt and pepper
  19. Get Parsley to garnish (optional)

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. 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.

Instructions to make Menestra de Verduras 🌱

Spanish veggie soup or stew:

  1. 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.
  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.
  3. Serve in a bowl as soup or stew and top with chopped parsley. You could serve as a side dish if you prefer.

The dish itself is quite simple - filled with fresh, seasonal vegetables such as asparagus, peas, artichokes, green beans, olives, potatoes, white beans, turnip. Nothing beats a freshly prepared menestra de verduras. This is a classic Spanish dish often served in La Rioja and Navarra but sadly not seen in restaurant menus anymore. Menestra de verduras is a panache of seasonal vegetables cooked in stock and served with battered vegetables. Spanish vegetable soup: easy, quick, healthy, and incredibly delicious!

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