The "verdinos" have become fashionable. There
market that are not present, or restaurant that boasts that it not be in your letter. This blog
lacks many traditional recipes that is so common there are always overshadowed by other more lucid. Little by little I'll be rectifying these little bugs.
the moment here are the verdinos with clams as My mother taught me to cook.
Ingredients:
* 1 / 2 kg of greenish
clam * 400 gr onion
* * a piece of leek
* a bit of pepper pintón
* a carrot * three or four cloves of garlic
* oil * salt
parsley
* * a pinch of paprika
* a small chili (optional) * *
half glass of fine cognac or white wine
Preparation:
Soak verdinos yesterday, covering them cold water.
When we cook in the pan with a piece of leek, a carrot, half an onion and a piece of pepper.
Leaving the heat to high for 10 minutes, skimming as necessary.
descended almost to a minimum and maintain a chup-chup soft, do not "gush."
Depending on the quality of cooked faba may take an hour, hour and a half ... so go check that they are soft, being careful not to fall apart.
During cooking stir not just move the pot with a va-i-see.
Remove the vegetables from the pot. Salted to taste. Open
clams steamed in a casserole of cognac or wine white, as they're opening the removed and added to the moss. Strain the remaining liquid.
low in a pot or pan with a little oil, very slowly poached garlic cloves and half an onion chopped very fine brunoise. We climbed the fire, add a teaspoon of chopped parsley and a pinch of pepper, let them do very well taking care not to burn it and pour over the dish, rinse thoroughly with the strained broth from the clams and if necessary also with little stock of faba.
Boil five minutes later by moving the pot to integrate the flavors.
Serve with good bread.
(*) - If you like the dish a little "happy", chop the chilli and the sauce poached with garlic and onion.