Tired of the classic vegetable stew or don't know what else to make from vegetables? Make a Spanish vegetable dish of your favorite foods, Pisto Manchego. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Pisto manchego is a traditional Spanish vegetable dish that is easy to prepare. The dish is named according to its place of origin: it came from the historical region of Spain La Mancha. Although you can find it throughout Spain, at the same time in the form of an independent dish or tapas. In the cuisines of different countries, there are many dishes similar to pisto: in France it is ratatouille, Hungary - lecho, Italy - caponata, Russia - vegetable stew.
Manchego pisto is a fairly simple dish to prepare. The modern composition of the treat was formed with the advent of sweet peppers and tomatoes in Spain. These vegetables are considered a must in the dish. The rest of the ingredients vary depending on the seasonality of the year, the preferences of the chef and the characteristics of the region of Spain. Onions, eggplants, zucchini, carrots, hot peppers can be found in the dish … Only olive oil is used to prepare pisto manchego. Vegetable oil will have a completely different taste of food. The dish is served as a side dish for meat and fish. Also, the dish can be independent with fresh bread and eggs, or it can be immediately cooked with any kind of meat.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 205 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pork ribs - 500 g
- Sweet red pepper - 1 pc.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - whisper
- Hot pepper - 1 pod
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.
- Greens - a bunch
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Olive oil - for frying
Step-by-step preparation of pisto manchego, recipe with photo:
1. Peel the onions, wash and dry with a paper towel. Cut it into half rings, rings, cubes … All vegetables for the dish are cut arbitrarily, coarsely or finely, as you like.
2. Peel the carrots, wash and cut into cubes.
3. Peel the bell peppers from the seed box, cut off the partitions, wash and cut.
4. Wash the eggplants, dry with a towel, cut off the stem and cut. If you use a mature vegetable, then it contains bitterness. It needs to be removed. To do this, sprinkle the eggplant with salt and leave for 15 minutes. Then wash it under running water and rinse off any moisture droplets that have formed on it. Bitterness came out of him. With young fruits, such actions do not need to be done, because there is no bitterness in them.
5. Wash the tomatoes, dry and cut into cubes.
6. Chop the washed greens. Peel the garlic and chop finely. Peel the hot peppers and chop finely.
7. Wash the meat, cut off excess fat and cut into pieces. This recipe uses pork ribs and should be cut into the bones.
8. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and add onion.
9. Saute the onion for about 5 minutes and add the carrots to it.
10. After 5 minutes, add the eggplant to the skillet.
11. Next, add the bell peppers and stir. Stir the vegetables for about 10 minutes.
12. Add chopped tomatoes, garlic, hot peppers and herbs to the pan.
13. Cook vegetables for about 15 minutes.
14. In another skillet, melt the cut fat from the meat.
15. Place the pork ribs in a skillet and turn on high heat.
16. Fry the ribs on both sides until golden brown. It will keep all the juice in the meat.
17. Continue to fry vegetables and meats.
eighteen. Put the meat in a pan with vegetables, season everything with salt and black pepper, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the food for half an hour over low heat. Serve the finished pisto manchego hot.
See also the video recipe on how to cook vegetable pisto manchego stew.
