Asturian cuisine recipes are healthy, tasty, and incredibly diverse. They are an essential part of the Asturian gastronomic universe, characterized by a rich history, strong identity, deep-rooted traditions, exceptional quality of ingredients, and a prominent presence of both natural and human landscapes.
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Cooking recipes
Ingredients (8 portions)
1 kg of green beans
1 piece of organic onion
1 organic leek
1 organic tomato
Organic peppers 1/2 red and 1/2 green
2 cloves of garlic
Salt
1 chilli
2 tablespoons of organic olive oil
Saffron about 5 threads
Fresh slimy clams (32 pieces)
Put the beans to cook with all the vegetables and the oil.
Once it starts to boil, wait 10 minutes and put everything on a low heat.
In a frying pan, brown the clove of garlic and a chilli pepper. Once browned, remove and sauté the clams.
Add a splash of white wine and a little flour or cornflour, salt, fish stock or warm water (but better stock).
Leave everything to cook and set aside.
Once the fabes are cooked, take all the vegetables and grind them, pass them through a sieve and add them back to the fabes and add the five saffron threads.
Add the clams and cook over a very low heat for a few minutes, add salt and leave to rest.
To serve, add chopped fresh parsley to taste.