Spanish pisto Manchego with white beans
 
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Cuisine: Mediterranean Diet
Serves: 4 People
Ingredients
  • 2 Jars (250g net drained weight each jar) of organic white beans in water with no added salt
  • 2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 Garlic cloves peeled and finely minced
  • 1 Medium onion peeled and finely chopped
  • 1 Red bell pepper, cored and diced
  • 1 Green bell pepper, cored and diced
  • 1 Zucchini, diced
  • ½ Teaspoon Pimentón de la Vera (Spanish Paprika)
  • 6 Medium tomatoes peeled and diced. You could also use ½ l of tomato passata if it the tomatoes are not in season
  • 1 Teaspoon sea salt (or salt to taste)
Instructions
  1. Have all the vegetables well washed and prepared as indicated in the ingredients description.
  2. In a frying pan with lid, heat olive oil (2 spoons), add the garlic and stir-fry for 1 minute until lightly golden. Add then the onion, red and green bell peppers and a pinch of salt and stir-fry over medium heat for around 5 minutes until soft but not brown. Add the zucchini and stir for one more minute.
  3. Reduce heat to low. Add the ½ teaspoon Pimentón de la Vera (Spanish Paprika) and the tomatoes and a teaspoon salt or salt to taste and stir. Leave to cook, covered with a lid, at a medium-low heat for approximately 15 minutes stirring from time to time. And remove from the heat.
  4. Once the pisto manchego is ready, add the drained white beans.
  5. Serve warm or cold during summer.
Notes
If you are using dried beans (360g (1⅔ cup) would suffice for 4 people), to cook them: soak the dried beans in cold water for 12 hours (ideally leave them soaked overnight). Rinse them well and drain. Put them in a cooking pot and cover with water and cook over low to medium heat for about 1 hour or until tender. While cooking part of the water may evaporate, add one cup of cold water and continue boiling until they are tender. Remove them from the heat, drain and add them as indicated in step 3.

Optionally you can add some chopped chives on top.
Recipe by Tasty Mediterraneo at https://www.tastymediterraneo.com/spanish-pisto-manchego-with-white-beans/