Menestra (Mixed Vegetable Stew)
Origin: Madrid, Spain
Source: Anonymous, 1921
Ingredients
- peas
- artichoke hearts
- lettuce hearts
- new potatoes
- carrot
- water
- salt
- lard
- onion
- garlic
- tomato
- ham
- chorizo
- pork fat
- fowl
- white wine
Instructions
- Cook peas, little artichoke and lettuce hearts, small fresh potatoes and carrot in water with salt, then drain them. In a frying pan with lard, fry onion, garlic, tomato, ham, chorizo, tocino (pork fat) and pieces of fowl, and stew it all with white wine. Mix this with the drained vegetables, cover the pan well and leave it over a slow fire until it is at its point.