Today I'm going to show you how to prepare an ancient recipe from Spain. It's one of the most typical dishes of our Mediterranean diet. This dish is high in vegetable protein provided by legumes, together with all the vitamins and antioxidants from spinach and olive oil. It is delicious, easy to cook and healthy. Moreover it is a great choice for cold days during the winter and a full meal as well. This recipe can be prepared the day before and it can also be frozen once cooked, keeping all its flavour and properties.
Ingredients:
Serves 4
500 g dried chickpeas
300g fresh spinach
125g Spanish chorizo
3 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoonful of sweet paprika
ground cumin
ground black pepper
ground cayenne pepper
salt
100 ml. extra virgin olive oil
Difficulty and cooking time:
Easy
2 hours
Method:
Soak the chickpeas in cold water for 8- 12 hours or overnight.
Drain and rinse the chickpeas. Put them in a pot with cold water, salt to taste and boil for 10 minutes.
Remove froth with a spoon or a skimmer.
Slice the chorizo
Wash the spinach
Put the sliced chorizo, together with the chickpeas and simmer for an hour and a half keeping the lid on the pot.
Then add the spinach
Chop the garlic and stir-fry for 2 minutes until the garlic turns golden.
Then add the sweet paprika
Pour out the resulting sauce in the pot
Stir and add the ground cumin, black pepper and cayenne pepper.
Cook for 5 minutes and our dish is ready. Serve it very hot.
Enjoy this healthy dish!
Hopefully see you soon.
María
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