Fabada Asturiana (Asturian Bean Stew)

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Fabada Asturiana (Asturian Bean Stew)

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Fabada Asturiana (Asturian Bean Stew) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

150 min Involved High fiber Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
5

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Drain the soaked fabes and put them in a large pot with the whole onion, garlic, bay leaf, and enough cold water to cover by two inches.

  2. Add the lacon, tocino, and chorizo, bring everything slowly to a simmer, and skim off the foam that rises in the first few minutes.

  3. Cook very gently, partially covered, for about 2 hours, adding a splash of cold water from time to time to keep the beans creamy rather than broken.

  4. Stir in the morcilla and the crushed saffron for the final 20 minutes so it warms through without falling apart.

  5. Season with the salt, remove the whole onion and bay leaf, and let the pot rest 10 minutes so the broth thickens before ladling it out.

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A Spanish lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Fabada Asturiana (Asturian Bean Stew), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Fabada Asturiana (Asturian Bean Stew) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Fabada Asturiana (Asturian Bean Stew)
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
620 kcal
Protein
34 g
Carbs
36 g
Fat
38 g
Fiber
10 g
Sugar
3 g
Sodium
880 mg
Saturated fat
14 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Fabada Asturiana (Asturian Bean Stew) takes about 150 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at lunch. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.

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