Easy Fanesca Imitation
photo by Tatooinedweller
- Ready In:
- 12hrs 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 20
- Yields:
-
12 1 cup
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
-
Stew
- 354.88 ml hard squash, raw, cubed
- 354.88 ml figleaf squash, raw, cubed
- 236.59 ml cabbage, raw, chopped
- 354.88 ml dry white beans
- 59.14 ml rice, dry
- 226.79 g salt cod fish
- 14.79 ml butter
- 4.92 ml achiote
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 white onions
- 0.25 ml pepper
- 1.23 ml cumin
- 236.59 ml half-and-half
- 118.29 ml natural-style peanut butter
- 354.88 ml frozen broad beans
- 236.59 ml frozen peas
- 709.77 ml hominy
- 118.29 ml 'chochos' or 'lupini' beans
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Adornments
- green plantain
- egg
directions
- Ahead of time, cook the squashes, cabbage, rice and beans separately and soak the fish. Save the liquids from the beans and fish.
- If the broad beans still have the shells, remove them.
- When ready to prepare:.
- 1. In a large pot, fry onion in 1 T butter with achiote and 3 minced cloves of garlic until the onion is transparent.
- 2. Add pepper and1/4 tsp cumin and fry additional minute.
- 3. Cut the fish in medium sized pieces (to preference).
- 4. Add a half cup of saved fish water, half-and-half, and the bean water to make one liter of liquid. If the bean water does not reach a liter, add water.
- 5. Add peanut butter, squash, sambo, cabbage, and rice; boil for 20 minutes, stirring, until it reaches a creamy consistency.
- 6. Add the hominy, both types of beans (make sure the broad beans have no shells), and peas, and simmer for 10 minutes.
- 7. Add the fish, simmer for 5 minutes. More of the fish water may be added to taste.
- 8. Add chochos.
- Top with any/all of the following:.
- 1. Fried plantain: Cut the plantains into pieces about an inch long, microwave until soft, press flat with a flat knife or a can, and fry in oil of your choice until golden brown.
- 2. Hard-boiled egg, peeled and halved.
- 3. Empanadas.
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