Beautiful landscapes surrounded




Happy New Year!  We will step out with our right foot first, it is meant to be lucky in a new year sort of way.  It’s lentils for lunch.  This is reckoned to be a thing to be done in Spain so we will try.




Lentejas con chorizo

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 30 ml

  • 2 links firm Spanish chorizo

  • 1 onion

  • 4 cloves garlic

  • 1 red bell pepper

  • 1 green bell pepper

  • 1 carrot

  • 1 large potato

  • 1 tsp sweet smoked Spanish paprika 2.30 grams

  • 2 tomatoes

  • 1 cup dried brown lentils 210 grams

  • 5 cups vegetable broth or water 1200 ml

  • 1 bay leaf

  • pinch sea salt

  • dash black pepper

  • handful fresh parsley




Finely chop the onion, roughly chop the garlic, finely chop the bell peppers, thinly slice the carrot,, cut the potato  into small bite-sized pieces, finely grate the tomatoes and cut the links of chorizo into 1.25 cm thick rounds


Heat a stock pot with a medium heat and add in the olive oil After a couple minutes add in the sliced chorizo, mix with the olive oil, after 3 minutes and the chorizo is lightly sauteed, add in all the cut vegetables, except for the potato, continue to mix with the olive oil, after 4 minutes and the vegetables are lightly sauteed, add in the paprika and quickly mix together, then add in the grated tomato, mix together and simmer without mixing


Once the grated tomato has slightly thickened, about 3 minutes, add in 1 cup dried brown lentils. the chopped potatoes, vegetable broth or water and bay leaf, raise to a high heat and mix together, once it comes to a boil, place a lid on the stock pot and lower to a low heat After simmering for 25 to 30 minutes and the lentils are cooked through., Season the stew with sea salt & black pepper, mix together, then remove from the heat





Transfer into shallow bowls and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and consume.






We are pushing on however should we spare the time we are near the Cotero Planos hiking area.  Ricardo reckoned ‘’Old highway N-232 as it passes through Villar de Arnedo and surrounding areas. Beautiful landscapes surrounded by vineyards and almond trees. The noise is a little annoying as the new N-232 is next to it (it runs practically parallel).’


Who knows what tomorrow will bring.











 

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